VAULT OF
SECRETS
By
Hawk McKinney
BLURB:
Vault of
Secrets is a compelling tale of intrigue, murder, deception and redemption 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 pleasure. The instincts and
skills Ingram and his buddy acquired as Navy SEALS are tested to their limits.
It
was straight up nine when Craige pushed through the doors of the trust
department. He figured after the way
he’d behaved, he’d get the brush-off from Ms. Rozkovsky but knew he was wrong
the minute she looked up at him. She
didn’t stare; she ogled and promptly dribbled her coffee. Craige figured if he said anything too
pleasant, she’d spill the whole cup, but he decided to risk it. “Good morning,” he said. “I have an appointment with Mrs. Stanley.”
The
blistering instant he spoke, Irene went deaf and numb, swallowed into those
gorgeous, green, scintillating eyes, wishing this stack of a man would do
everything to her she’d ever wanted a man to do. She scrutinized every scrumptious imagined
morsel she could just taste under his casual Madras cotton shirt. Having not heard one word he had said, she
stuttered, “Can I help you?” In her
mind, she was already peeling away the faded cords pulled across his thighs,
that marvelous face with its strong jaw and hint of heavy beard. She wanted to run her fingers through those
curly brown locks, shaded tawny gold like a male lion’s mane--every
unmentionable she’d ever swirled in her dizzy head and gave her tingly goose
bumps. She didn’t care what he said as
long as he kept looking at her.
Craige
repeated, “I have an appointment with Mrs. Stanley.”
Irene
blinked and blinked again as though she had no idea who he was. She then stammered, “What’s your name?”
Courtesy such as “please have a seat” shot to hell.
“Craige
Ingram.”
“One
moment, I’ll tell her you’re here,” she bubbled. Irene’s heart was in a pity-pat dither. Her bra squeezed so tight, it was hard to
breathe. She stumbled around her desk
and hurried into Terri’s office, somehow managing to shut the door somewhat
quietly. In a butterfly falsetto and a
hand at her throat, she said, “He’s here!”
AUTHOR INFORMATION:
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
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