The Harder They Hit

Ben Perkins #2

by Rob Kantner, Rob Katner

When a psychic hires him to investigate a series of dark visions, private detective Ben Perkins becomes involved in the search for a lovely missing blonde and murder

Genres: Mystery

Mass Market Paperback

First published March 1, 1987

About the author

Born in Ohio, raised in north Georgia, Rob Kantner has spent most of his adult life in Michigan. He served as a journalist in the U. S. Naval Reserve, and graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a degree in English and journalism.

Rob's business career included a series of management positions for small manufacturing and service firms. Since 1995 he has been self employed as a business management consultant.

Rob has three children: Meaghan, John, and Robert, two grandchildren: Brenna and Evan. He also has two stepchildren: Jonathan and Adrienne. He lives with his wife Deanna on their rural Michigan horse farm.

Reviews

[S.wagenaar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another great mystery/thriller by Kantner starring my favorite blue-collar Detroit P.I. Ben Perkins. I look at these books as a slice of late 80’s-early 90’s nostalgia, capturing a bit of neat pop culture from the era while telling great, hard-hitting crime fiction. Ben is hired by a celebrity psychic to find a missing young woman, and he finds himself dragged down into the sordid world of underground porn. Things get dirty and nasty, and Ben is pushed to the brink trying to solve this one. A great book,well worth the read. I’ve got nearly all of them now; Recommended!

[SB · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting book about a PI who also manages an apartment complex. That’s a new one to me.

[Mike Gower · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ben Perkins gets involved with a psychic (not because he wants to.) He end up in trouble he didn't see coming until it nearly was too late. Rob Kantner did a great job on this.

[Meredith Galman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another in the hard-boiled Ben Perkins mysteries. Perkins is a truly original character -- a hard-working, hard-drinking, blue-collar guy who likes baseball, Detroit, Ford cars, ultralight planes, Stroh's beer, younger women, and solving crimes, with or without using his fists. Here he takes on the disappearance of a young woman at the behest of a TV psychic and runs smack into a massively organized porn ring. Ben's not always a nice guy, but his core of surly integrity always gets him through when it counts.