Once more I
welcome author Hawk McKinney to my blog. Hawk is a busy bird, right now
promoting another of his novels: The
Lady of Corpsewood Manor, book 4 of the Craige Ingram Mystery Series, a
Contemporary Mystery Suspense book available now from Wandering Sage
Publishing.
For this promo
tour, Hawk will be giving away a $20 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn commenter –
so don’t forget to leave a message here!
What is the book about?
Blurb
In the spacious den of Moccasin Hollow, his ancestral South Carolina
home, part-time PI, exNavy SEAL Craige Ingram examines a platinum brooch
designed like a dragonfly inside a jeweler’s box that he has discovered at the
crime scene of Corpsewood Manor. It is a remarkable piece of art…its wings and
body worked in exceptional detail. Focusing toward the expected bulbous round
eyes, his suspicions jar full throttle. Instead of a head, the empty sockets of
a skull leer at him. His gut feelin’s tell him his SEAL buddy Grayson
MacGerald’s investigation is considerably more than arson and a double murder
trying to hide the theft of classic automobiles. The smoldering rubble of
secluded Corpsewood Manor leads Ingram and another of their SEAL Team, Colorado
Aspen ski buddy Spinner Krespinak, into a seedy tangle of smuggling
crisscrossed and an unexpected encounter with a dead assassin from one of
Spinner’s “closed” cases.
Excerpt
“You been
told to stay away from Corpsewood.”
Kenyon said,
“Ain’t got no other place ‘cept them leaky sheds out behind the garage. They don’t leak much. Least before the fire I had a place to
sleep. Got kicked out of my other
place. They let me sleep here.”
“I’ll just
bet they let your sweet cheeks sleep-over.
You’re just the kind of meat they liked to sucker in.”
“Now I got
no place, an’ nights are gettin’ colder.”
“They the
ones that hooked you on crystal?”
“I told
you. I don’t do drugs.”
“Cut the
crap…I heard all the stories. Nothing
out’a your mouth ever made sense—only a bunch of your twisted whining.” Somewhere between a snarl and a chuckle, “I’m
suppose to believe you never done meth,” raven-black stab of a look. “Sure…you’re clean all right except for
pushing crank or whatever up your nose or stoking it in your arms,” glanced at
the needle tracks on both arms. “Got a
problem? Run out’a veins in your
arms? Using the ones in your ankles? Clean yourself up. Wash your greasy stringy hair and get it
cut. Stop acting like some fool animal
that needs to be caged. Take a
bath. Get a job. Quit blowing your money, you’d have a place
of your own.”
“I don’t
snort crystal or Nazi dope,” Kenyon griped.
“You’re like ever’body else, judging someone by the way we live.”
“I don’t
care what you’re on, but anyone fool enough to supply you is askin’ for
trouble. We got enough trouble with the
Corpsewood fire and that goddamn homicide Lieutenant MacGerald nosing around
with his friggin’ PI SEALmate Ingram helpin’ him dig.”
Author info
With postgraduate
degrees and faculty appointments in several medical universities, Hawk
MacKinney has taught graduate courses in both the United States and Jerusalem.
In addition to professional articles and texts on chordate neuroembryology,
Hawk has authored several works of fiction.
Hawk began writing
mysteries for his school newspaper. His works of fiction, historical love
stories, science fiction and mystery-thrillers are not genre-centered, but
plot-character driven, and reflect his southwest upbringing in Arkansas, Texas
and Oklahoma. Moccasin Trace, a historical novel nominated for the prestigious
Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Writers Notes
Book Award, details the family bloodlines of his serial protagonist in the
Craige Ingram Mystery Series… murder and mayhem with a touch of romance. Vault
of Secrets, the first book in the Ingram series, was followed by Nymrod
Resurrection, Blood and Gold, and The Lady of Corpsewood Manor. All have
received national attention. Hawk’s
latest release in the Ingram series is due out this fall with another
mystery-thriller work out in 2014. The Bleikovat Event, the first volume in The
Cairns of Sainctuarie science fiction series, was released in 2012.
"Without
question, Hawk is one of the most gifted and imaginative writers I have had the
pleasure to represent. His reading fans have something special to look forward
to in the Craige Ingram Mystery Series. Intrigue, murder, deception and
conspiracy--these are the things that take Hawk's main character, Navy ex-SEAL/part-time
private investigator Craige Ingram, from his South Carolina ancestral home of
Moccasin Hollow to the dirty backrooms of the nation's capital and across
Europe and the Middle East."
Barbara Casey,
President
Barbara Casey Literary
Agency
I enjoy having you here, Hawk. I also like a good mystery.
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