Blood and Gold, the third book in The Craige Ingram Mystery
Series, once again tests the instincts and skills of retired Navy
SEAL/part-time private investigator Craige Ingram. Lust, greed, body parts and
unrestrained wild sex parties are what await Craige Ingram when he leaves the
comforts of his South Carolina home to visit his former SEAL buddy, Detective
Spinner Krespinak. Set in the Colorado underbelly of a sordid sable and faux
glitz ski mecca, Detective Spinner Krespinak suspects drugs have made their way
to the snowy playground that is Aspen. An Olympic ski hopeful is brutally
murdered, Spinner vanishes, and Craige Ingram is shot as events spin out of
control with a Catch-22 no one anticipates.
Hawk is promoting this novel right now, and for the occasion he's giving away a $25 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour.
Here's a teaser:
Spinner's
high mountain, ski slope bronzed hand ruffled through his hair. He flipped another page, “That's the third one,
counting the other mismatched body parts as one and two.” Frowned.
“There's not much more here than with the others.” Handed Craige Loopy's prelims. “Take a look
at those…lemme know what you think.”
Krespinak brown eyes bayoneted the blue stick-‘em pasted to the center
of his monitor, “…mm…interesting phone memo.
Seems Hizzoner the Mayor is concerned.
Wants to keep the lid on. Claims
he doesn't want to scare away business.
Real fact behind his fume-an’-fuss is all about not wanting to scare
away votes in the upcoming elections.
Media’s already nosing around about this morning’s torch job—that ought
to rattle his cage. Stroking a yancy
politician doesn't gripe me, but if he was serious we could use some additional
personnel pavement pounding for answers.”
Ferron
said, “Loopy said she hadn’t gotten the final results on the mitochondrial DNA
runs. But from what she’s seen so far,
she said it doesn’t look like this latest one even comes close to a match with
any of the previous body parts. Time of
death is iffy as well. If the body was
left outside in the subfreezing temps, Loopy said it could stretch the time
interval. Her best guess is within a
week or two of the others. Only
difference this time, we have a whole body.”
Craige
asked Ferron, “When did the first one show up?”
Ferron
thought for a moment, asked Spinner, “When did we get the first one? A little over two months ago?”
“Something
like that…date’s logged in the case file,” Spinner said. “What bothers me most is not what we have,
but what we don’t have. Along with no
IDs and no statewide missing person reports, there’s not even a close to a
match to any of the age ranges Loopy suggested.”
“You
think the killings are random?” Craige
said.
“No—I
don't think they're random. But I'm one
of the few who feels that way.” Spinner
thought of the grisly pieces in the morgue cooler. He didn't like prowling for motives. Liked it less their coming up empty with damn
few answers. Sure didn't like the doubts
gnawing his innards. “I'm stuck at which
came first—chicken or the egg quandary.
Which victims were intentional targets?
Which ones might’ve just been in the way; killed to make sure there were
no awkward inconvenient witnesses. If
they are serial killings, we’re not seeing any time-pattern between kills. There has to be a reason for the times
between each victim, and why are we finding only pieces?”
Author info and links:
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
Links:
www.hawkmackinney.net
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