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Blood and Gold
Book 3 ~ Craige Ingram Mystery Series
by Hawk MacKinney
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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.
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Excerpt
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?”
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AUTHOR Bio 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
