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Curse of the Ancients
by Hawk
MacKinney
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GENRE: Mystery/Suspense
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BLURB:
As
Craige Ingram climbed the stairs of the derelict building, that peculiar stench
of a dead body hit him. It was the same smell no matter where—SpecOps SEAL
encounter gone sour, or in a vacant, roach-infested apartment. Inside, his SEAL
buddy-turned head of Buckingham Parish Homicide’s Investigative Support
Division, Grayson MacGerald, was huddled with the coroner next to a swollen
decaying corpse that was days old and hardly more than oozing dead meat. The PI
inside Craige had a gut feeling that there was more to this than a dead body,
and Craige’s Grannie always told him, “Trust your feelin’s.” But that was
before Mihály Keaulescu set down two of his Black Falcon choppers on Craige’s
Moccasin Hollow private airstrip in an uninvited stopover. It got worse. From
his airstrip to Israel, to Turkey and a nightmare-dream of one-of-a-kind
ancient artifacts that not only threatened the serene life Craige knew and
loved at Moccasin Hollow, it would destroy the world.
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With
a twist of one strap he hoisted his heavy canvas field pack of fence-fixin’
tools over his shoulder. Cut across the hayfield behind the house toward the
new section. At the fence he looped the strap over the corner gatepost he’d set
and cemented two days earlier. He slipped on heavy-leather gloves, and grabbed
the post-hole digger. Humidity already thick, it was gonna be another one of
those early sweat-and-lots-of-water days. As he jammed deeper into the rusty
red sticky sandy-kaolin hole, his handset gave an interrupted buzz. Not many
people had access to any of his numbers; even fewer had the code to his
scrambled satellite uplink. He leaned the posthole digger against the stump,
shucked his gloves and knocked them together to get rid of the gritty clods.
His tattered sweat-soaked straw hat pushed to the back of his head, he brushed
back the wet brown curls plastered across his forehead. He needed a haircut.
He
reached inside his pack and grabbed the handset, “Ingram.”
Gray
said, “You tied up with anything you can’t turn loose?”
The
tone of Gray’s usual studied voice was a bit more hurried than
let’s-grab-an-early-lunch. “You sound full-awake even after River Disco.”
Gray
said, “Getting around to breakfast this morning was a bit slow.”
Craige
could tell this was business. “Stringing new fences and burying posts has
waited this long. No reason it can’t wait longer.” He gave his caked gloves a
final whack against his snake boots and brushed a shirtsleeve across his eyes,
smudging the sweat off his forehead. Gray was not one for beating around the
bush when it came to homicide business. It was one of the things about Gray
that Commanding Officer Craige Ingram relied on.
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BOOK TRAILER:
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AUTHOR BIO:
With
postgraduate degrees and faculty positions at several medical universities, Hawk MacKinney has
taught graduate courses in both the United States and Jerusalem. In addition to
his work in classrooms and laboratories, he has written numerous professional
articles on chordate neuroembryology and authored several novels that reflect
his southwest upbringing in Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma. Moccasin Trace, a
historical novel nominated for both the prestigious Michael Shaara Award for
Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Writers Notes Book Award, details the
family bloodlines of his protagonist in the Moccasin Hollow Mystery Series.
Hidden Vault of Secrets and Westobou Gold, Books 1 and 2 in the series, have
received national and international attention. Hawk is also writing a science
fiction series, The Cairns of Sainctuarie.
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ReplyDeleteOf course :)
DeleteI enjoyed getting to know your book and thanks for the chance to win :)
ReplyDeleteLisa BROWN - Hope U enjoy the series - thanx for stopping by & commenting -
DeleteHawk MacK
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Hi Lisa! Thanks for stopping by and good luck in the giveaway! Hope you are having a fabulous day :)
DeleteFabulous and Brunette/Ally SWANSON - Thank you for hosting Curse of the Ancients, Book 3 in the Moccasin Hollow Mystery Series. Book 4 in the mystery series as well as the next sci-fi title are in galley-edit. An earlier title, Moccasin Trace, a prequel historical romance establishes the bloodline(s) of serial protagonists Craige Ingram in the Moccasin Hollow Mystery Series…
ReplyDeleteHawk MacKinney
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Absolutely! My pleasure :)
DeleteSounds like a good book!
ReplyDeleteVictoria A - It was lots of fun to twist the write - Thanx for stopping by -
DeleteHawk MacK
Hi Victoria! I totally agree and have added this book to my TBR List! Thanks for stopping by and good luck in the giveaway :)
DeleteI love the cover
ReplyDeleteGwendolyn JORDAN - the graphic artist designed it - I like it as well -on behalf of this host, thanx for stopping by & commenting -
DeleteHawk MacKinney
Hi Gwendolyn! Me too! It looks very intriguing! Thanks for stopping by and good luck in the giveaway :)
DeleteHawk ~ It is so great to have you here again! Congrats on your new book and good luck on the book tour! :)
ReplyDeleteAlly SWANSON - Hope U enjoy the read as much as I did the write AND the detailed outline I had to keep to mix & match who did what to whom - twisting multiple plots can be wild as a scared tiger -
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Bridgett WILBUR - mystery, sci-fi, historical romance...they are all series with the covers/videos on the HOME page popup of my website - thanx for stopping by -
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