NBTM: Hidden Chamber of Death by Hawk MacKinney

Hidden Chamber of Death

by Hawk MacKinney

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GENRE: Mystery/Suspense

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BLURB:

Hidden Chamber of Death is a compelling tale of intrigue, murder, deception and suspense that leads retired Navy SEAL/part-time private investigator Craige Ingram in search of the connection between seemingly random murders and a banking conspiracy.  Working with the local homicide investigator, who just happens to be a former Navy buddy, Craige Ingram's attempts to protect a lonely widow and solve the case before another person dies are only thwarted by a psychotic killer whose motivation is based on pure depraved pleasure.  In this first book of the MOCCASIN HOLLOW MYSTERY SERIES, the instincts and skills Ingram and his buddy acquired as Navy SEALS are tested to their limits.

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Excerpt One:

Except for the Silver Bluff Museum of Southron Art annual charity event, prominent CEO Llewyn Royce Sedgewicke and PI Craige Howelle Graeme Roynane Ingram didn’t move in the same social circles. Chances were slim to none that Royce Sedgewicke would’ve ever been invited to the sprawling riverfront lands that had once been Grannie Ingram’s dogtrot Moccasin Hollow.

Unlike his collection of mounted big game trophies, portly Royce Sedgewicke’s food-bespattered tuxedoed carcass stretched like public road kill amid the crash and smash of food, china, crystal and splayed floral pieces, and very dead. Last-breath gurgles around his gagging tongue; smart phones madly clicked, flooding social media before the emergency ambulance arrived. The headlines made big local news. Online photos of his swollen tongue and overstuffed derrière made a bigger hit of his grand departure, squandering what little decorum he ever had. That mess was bad enough, but he left a bigger one behind.

The circle cinched a lot less social and way more snug when the head of Buckingham Parish Metro Law Enforcement, Investigative Support Team Graysen MacGerald paid an off-the-record visit to his grown-up-together SEAL Commanding Officer Craige `Peadinger’ Ingram. The death certificate said heart attack—it wasn’t.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Internationally acclaimed author and public speaker, Hawk MacKinney began writing mysteries for his school newspapers. Following graduation, he served in the US Navy for over 20 years. While serving as a Navy Commander, he also had a career as a full-time faculty member at several major state medical facilities. He earned two postgraduate degrees with studies in languages and history. He has taught postgraduate courses in both the United States and Jerusalem, Israel.

In addition to professional articles and texts on fetal and adult anatomy, Hawk has authored several novels that have received national and international recognition. Moccasin Trace, a historical novel, was nominated for the prestigious Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Writers Notes Book Award. This was followed by the Craige Ingram Mystery Series. In a change of direction, October of 2012 saw the release of Hawk’s first science fiction novel, The Bleikovat Event, in The Cairns of Sainctuarie series. Volume II in The Cairns of Sainctuarie series, The Missing Planets, was released in 2014 with Volume III in the works.

Hawk’s latest project focuses on The Moccasin Hollow Mystery Series. Book 1 in the series, Hidden Chamber of Death, was just released, and Book 2 in the series, Westobou Gold, will be released in the fall.

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Hawk MacKinney/GFish/Teresa NOEL/17Mar2016

Author Q&A interview

for

Teresa NOEL

What’s you’re writing process? Has it changed since writing your first book?

Yes & no. Editing is the key—unadorned honesty with that person in the mirror. There is no single process. No matter the genre, writing is so private. Man-cave solitude is essential when interweaving characters, plots, conflicts, twists & double-triple twists.

What is your personal definition of success?

Be honest with self AND listen to your heart; trust your feelings. Learn from those that want to help. Turn mistakes into learning opportunities. All else is tasty whipped cream & fresh strawberries.

What sort of research do you do for your books and what’s your favorite source of information.

Depends on setting/characters/plots watched/visited/observed/delved into. Example: being born & raised in the SoWest gave me a little firsthand touch-&-feel for histories of The Late Great Unpleasantness OR The War Between the States. Placing ancestors of the serial protagonist in the Moccasin Hollow Mystery Series & its prequel historical romance, Moccasin Trace was de rigueur in the French meaning…in strictness. Being a history nerd was a plus. The same for Sci-fi…new worlds/languages/races/DNA & species foreign to our spaceship Earth. One can stumble all too easy in the artificial; worlds that are no longer quite so artificial. Research & digging into a confusing deep into CERN, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), anywhere dusty trails point.

Do you see yourself in any of your characters?

Absolutely…writing from the heart is the only way. Parts of ourselves fashion our characters. Mark Twain said, “Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”

Who is your favorite character in your book(s)?

In the romance, mystery & sci-fi titles there are serial protagonists & supporting characters. Each tale develops characters in different plots, motives & conflicts.

In the Cairns of Sainctuarie series…

Eklam a’Qoc…background & expectations of a rural farming, gelf herding culture; the consequences of his curiosity to ‘know more’…the calamities confronting him.

Grand Duke Herklo Korvo…the privileged aristocrat/leader, loyal to friends & clan kin

In the Moccasin Hollow series…

Craige Ingram & the supporting characters of their SEAL unit…the bond(s) of loyalty & trust, the principles that bring solid friendships in a creaky uncertain world.

What question do you frequently get about your books?

How does the romance of Moccasin Trace connect across generations to the descendant of serial protagonist Craige Ingram in the mystery series? Same in The Cairns of Saintuarie sci-fi series where I connect families across generations…ain’t it fun!

Who is your most favorite character of all time from any book?

Bernadine Eugénie Désirée Clary, fiancé of Napoléon Bonaparte…a lesson in history & consequence of decisions. Married to Marshall of France Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte. She became Dowager Queen, founder of the Bernadotte Dynasty on the throne of present day Sweden. Désirée Clary Bernadotte is not only an intriguing character. She is a relatively unknown, and sometimes frivolous in historical or contemporary worlds of the so-called worldly. Pivotal & seemingly insignificant, she was a lady of her time…one on which momentous events were altered—the thrilling-unexpected within a character. Nonfiction is NOT boring by any cut of the chunk of cheese.

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