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Book Details
GENRE: Suspense/Thriller
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BLURB:
When marine buddy, Gulfport, Mississippi Sheriff asks Craige Ingram for help, Ingram and
Buckingham Parish patrolman ‘Badger’ Thomas Boback find themselves in the summertime
dogdays of the humid Gulf Coast. With crowded beaches and an undermanned staff, a routine
investigation soon becomes anything but routine when indescribable body parts start showing
up along the surf, in beachfront cabins, half-buried in bayou wetlands, stashed under freeway
bridges, and across county lines. Craige’s search for answers to identifying victims and killer
among the crowds of tourists and skin-and-sun partygoers soon makes it obvious the victims
have no connection with one another—until conflicting DNA results and haunting premonitions
resembling the warnings Craige’s grannie often had become part of the investigation. The
jigsaw of abandoned cross-kin offspring begin a horrifying Gordian Knot tangle that threatens
anyone who approaches the shadowy ancient wreck of an old mansion – an asylum from a lost
time.
Excerpt
During the long haint-ridden nights the craving had become scalding, nearly uncontrollable. The
green-yellow eyes withdrew into darker corners of windowless rooms, as flickers of Cajun
Grandmère Nana’s weathered face swirled in the mist. Everybody around knew ageless Kreyòl
Cajun Grandmère Nana. Some of them truly were believers. They knew what they had seen
with their own eyes, and no one was going to convince them otherwise. They’d call to her by her
dead half-sister’s spook-name, Momby Bocor. In the shadows of full-moon nights, they’d
mumble in a breathless cadence, “Momby Bocor. Momby Bocor. Momby Bocor,” that became
more chant than phantom witch-worker. Nana’s soft Acadia dialect in her New Orleans patois
gave a pleasing lilt to the dapples of moonlight, her outline sauntering the back yard beneath the
sprawling sheen of the swamp magnolia’s thick leaves. Not a hair was out of place in the golden
red crown circled atop her head. Her frayed sweet gum twig swizzled back and forth in toothless
twitches. Time-wrinkled eyes looked, mesmerized, toward the full silvery orb. She could almost
see ancient Luna rising out of the gentle watery laps of the Gulf, reflected in the ripples and
washing the sandy beaches. Nana often warned her gran’chil’ Ramona about the waxing
madness that came from the blinding dazzle of the full moon. Lots of folks shrugged her off as a
tiddly old crone passing her unnumbered days and nights inside her own world. Yet Nana’s
houseplants never got frost burned, and her early flower beds and vegetable gardens were
never planted before the last freeze. Ramona didn’t shrug off her Gran’mere Nana who was
sharpened by the clean brisk air spilling among the haints and steamy haunts of bayous that
would stay warm until spring. Then would come the days of warm Gulf air piling into big dark
thunderheads, and the offshore waters would froth into elegant capped grey plumes. He could
hardly wait. Sharp mangled grubby teeth chewed the lower lip pulling it raw. Blood oozed. The
wet tongue did a quick taste, fed the perpetual lust. The craving hunger was always there. With
the cloudy moon it would make for a cozy night to roam so long as Richard didn’t find out. It
would make for good hunting.
AUTHOR Bio and Links
Hawk MacKinney has authored several award-winning works of fiction that include THE
MOCCASIN HOLLOW MYSTERY SERIES and THE CAIRNS OF SAINCTUARIE SCIENCE
FICTION SERIES. His historical romance MOCCASIN TRACE was nominated for the
prestigious Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Writers Notes
Book Award.
Cross-genre character-driven plots reflect Hawk MacKinney’s southwest upbringing along the
Texas and Oklahoma borders. With postgraduate faculty positions in several medical
universities, Hawk MacKinney has taught graduate courses in both the United States and
Jerusalem.
http://www.hawkmackinneyauthor.com
Tour Schedule
August 4:
1: Iron Canuck Reviews & More
2: Edgar’s Books
3: It’s Raining Books
4: Read Your Writes Book Reviews
5: Karen J. Mossman – World of Stories
6: Stormy Nights Reviewing & Bloggin’
7: Sarandipity’s
August 5:
1: Guatemala Paula Loves to Read
2: Sarcastically Yours, Jen
3: Long and Short Reviews
4: Author Sahara Foley
5: Beyond Romance
6: Tina Donahue Books – Heat with Heart
7: Wendi Zwaduk – Romance to Make Your Heart Race
August 6:
1: Straight from the Library
2: Always Reading
3: Deal Sharing Aunt
4: Sapphyria’s Books
5: Fabulous and Brunette
6: Author C.A.Milson
7: Moonlight Compass Books
August 7:
1: The Faerie Review
2: The Avid Reader
3: Welcome to My World of Dreams
4: Books R Us
5: Locks, Hooks and Books
6: Country Mamas With Kids
7: Christine Young
August 8:
1: Sandra’s Book Club review
2: Our Town Book Reviews
3: FUONLYKNEW
4: A Wonderful World of Words
5: Author Deborah A. Bailey Blog
6: Ellwyn’s Blog
7: Girl with Pen
Giveaway
Hawk MacKinney will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner.
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