Final Fling - Ben Perkins, Bk 10 Author:Rob Kantner Husband of the year? Not Rip Brownlee. Not by a long shot. But no one - not even Bonabell, his long-suffering wife - thinks Rip deserved to end up dead, gutted like a fish in the back of his van. The cops call it the work of a random street crazy. Bonabell's not buying it. So she calls in Detroit private detective Ben Perkins. Fresh off a year o... more »n break from the rough stuff - he hasn't even bothered to replace his .45 automatic - Ben's fighting fires of many flavors: girlfriend, family, job, cop. But he agrees to look into Rip's death. Working his way through Rip's murky world of shady deals, skanky girls, and secret sins, Ben learns more than he'd care to. But there's even more he does not know. Rip's murder, while certainly crazy, was anything but random. From long ago and far away, Rip's killer draws closer by the day. And sooner rather than later, Ben Perkins will wish he had his old .45 back. . . .« less