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Can you read in the car?
No, neither as a passenger nor as a driver. I am strongly opposed to smart-phone delinquents who care little about their driving or other drivers or the lives they wreck.
What makes you love a book?
And
What will inspire you to recommend a book?
These two questions are much alike…and have the same answer. I enjoy the clear pleasant English constructions and how well the simplicity of those constructions conveys marvelous concepts/ideas/curiosity. In other words, I like everyday language that conveys rich ideas and research. This can be fiction or nonfiction.
Favorite reading snack?
No snack on the river-view swang (Southron for swing) or within the confines of the paper-strewn domain of murder and mayhem near the keyboard.
Name a case in which hype ruined your reading experience.
As far as my own books are concerned, spell my name correctly…the rest of the hype doesn’t matter. It is simply water off the back of a duck. Books written by others, however, have on more than one occasion disappointed me, making me question how it got published. Poor editing, inadequate research, and limited writing skills all come to mind.
How often do you agree with critics about a book?
Good critics are worth listening to…it’s a learning experience where ego shouldn’t be involved and well worth paying attention to. Several of my trusted editors are much respected, and their suggestions are highly constructive. In several decades of writing there’s been only one airhead (a more pleasant euphemism for ig’nert; i.e., Southron for dumb)…one more time - water off the duck.
How do you feel about giving bad/negative reviews?
If it’s that bad I don’t review it. It’s not an ego `thang’. My ego is in the stars, but criticizing others or giving negative reviews is not one of its bait-points.
If you could read in a foreign language, which language would you chose?
I can and I have…German, Russian and the King’s English. Well spoken, all are beautiful languages, but His Majesty’s tongue is astoundingly different from my mo’betta Southron vernacular and dialects. When spoken correctly, it is elegant and pleasant to the ear.
The longest I’ve gone without reading?
Maybe 15 minutes…at the most 24 hours, but that’s an obsessive agony.
The most money I’ve ever spent in the bookstore at one time?
Libraries are my bookstores—local brick and mortar and interlibrary services.
Do you like to keep your books organized?
The books I own are organized on bookshelves, easy to find and refer to when I need to. Others I donate to local libraries.
During plans for a cross-country ski vacation, Aspen Police Department Criminal Investigation Division Detective David “Spinner” Krespinak and SEAL-bud Craige Ingram are ensnared by glamour, upmarket glitz and bling, and greed in the deadly champagne powder world of a money-gets-you-anything high-country ski-mecca. Body parts start turning up in the most unlikely places. As the two friends start their investigation, A hornets nest of the local elite do not want the publicity. For good reason it seems, they may be part of the mystery of bodies and body parts piling up at the morgue.
The closer they get to the killer the more confused they become. Who is behind the murders and mutilation? The list of suspects grows as they close the net on the killer.
The tender underbelly of Aspen is not what it seems. It is a raw open sore that oozes blood, drugs, and murder.
Spinner staggered the clutch and gear-shift. Kept his foot off the brakes as his vehicle slewed in the razor-edged chunky refreeze of the deep off-road ruts until coming to a stop. Killed the motor, and set the hand brake. Gusts of wind sliced at a square jaw on his devil-may-care rugged face as he climbed out and turned up the collar on his sheepskin coat. Big thick champagne-powder snowflakes clung for a moment to dust his dark hair, and just as quick blew-gone in the capricious strong up-slope drafts. He ducked under the fluttering yellow plastic ribbon with its black letters: POLICE LINE—DO NOT CROSS.
The charred black remains of the older model sedan slumped in a sooted blotched circle surrounded by undulating pristine white and candlestick-caked trees. It spoke loud and clear to Spinner—the burn had continued for some time after the storm. Wheel rims, frame, heat-crazed windows were still smoldering from hood to trunk.
As he walked toward her, salt-and-pepper-haired Pitkin County Medical Examiner-Coroner Candelaria Lopez didn’t have to look up. She knew the cadence of Spinner’s footsteps. “Looks like we have us a bungled hurried torch job.”
Hawk MacKinney 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 chordate neuroembryology, Hawk has authored several works of fiction—historical love stories, science fiction and mystery-thrillers. His titles are not genre-centered, but plot-character driven. 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 Moccasin Hollow Mystery Series—murder and mayhem with a touch of romance. Hidden Chamber of Death, the first book in the mystery series, was followed by Book 2, Westobou Gold and his latest, Book 3, Curse of the Ancients. All have received national attention. The Bleikovat Event was Vol I in The Cairns of Sainctuarie Science Fiction Series followed by Vol II, The Missing Planets. Vol III, Inanna Phantom is in final galleys.
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