It should have been an otherwise uneventful Sunday morning for Charleston attorney Noah Parks. Perhaps a trip to the beach or a run with his new Australian Shepherd, Austin. But with a cryptic voicemail, everything changes. A client has vanished, leaving nothing behind as a clue to where he may be. Neither his family, friends, nor neighbors are able to provide help.” Turning to his friend Emmett Gabriel, Charleston’s newest police detective, Parks can only watch as what started with a simple voicemail takes on a sinister life of its own. Parks soon finds himself entangled in an affair that spans centuries, going back to the time of Charleston’s birth. With a focus on learning his client’s fate, Parks will soon find himself facing a mystery that will not only be a test of his wits but leaves him challenged in ways he never imagined. Facing down twists, turns, betrayals, and traditions of honor, will he break The Code?
The Top 10 things you may not know about Sean Keefer
Being a writer is about a lot more than just
writing. Much goes into the process, but not all ends up on the page, though
many different factors influence the final product. I wanted to talk about the
top 10 things that not everyone knows about me, many of which have a decided
impact on my writing. Other? Not so much, but I thought I would share, nevertheless.
1 - Though I ended up practicing law as a
profession, that was not my initial plan. In high school, I was very involved
in student media. When I started college, my first major was computer science,
but, well, because of math, that just didn’t work out. I bounced around for a
bit and ended up studying journalism with a concentration in photojournalism.
While I ended up in law school, even today, I spend a great deal of time behind
the camera.
2 - I have found I have a great love of writing
and intend to keep writing Noah Parks books (and maybe delving into some other
non-Noah storylines), but folks who have known me for a while, were surprised
when my first book was released. They thought it would be an album. While I had
dabbled in writing on and off in a sporadic fashion, I had been a musician
since high school. So, while everyone had been waiting on an album, a book
appeared. Then another. But not to worry, while The Code was delayed a
bit as a result, during the delay, I recorded my first two EPs of original
music.
3 - Much like writing, there are a few things that
I never planned to do. Cooking is one of these things. I’ve been lucky to have
made several friends in the restaurant business, among them some incredible
chefs. The more I learned, the more I realized I was fascinated by the art and
science of cooking. As a result, I love to spend time in the kitchen. Through
my writing, I try to convey some of that love with details about meals or
various kinds of food, and, well, drink. Who knows, maybe there will be a Noah
Parks cookbook in the future.
4 - Growing up on the coast of South Carolina,
water sports are just a way of life. While I love the water, I’ve never gotten
into boating. Not that I don’t enjoy every opportunity I get to be on a boat,
I’ve just never owned my own boat. That is partly because as much as I realized
how much I loved being on the water, my true love was being under the water
scuba diving.
5 - Never being one to rest with just one,
multiple dogs have been a reality for the majority of my adult life. Presently,
there are four dogs (Australian Shepherds) in the picture ranging from the age
of, at the time of this writing, four months to 14 years. Oh, and there is also
a horse that is, after all, just a pasture puppy.
6 - Not being content to write fiction, I decided
to try my hand at non-fiction. The result was a book published by the South
Carolina Bar Association titled Mediation in the Family Courts of South
Carolina. This, of course, begs the question: How many readers have all
three of the Noah Parks books and the mediation book?
7 - While this point is related to cooking, I
decided to delve into hot sauce making based on a conversation I had with a
friend a little over two years ago. From planting pepper plants to fermenting
to even putting the finished product in woozy bottles (yes, that’s what those
little bottles are called), it’s been a fun diversion, and the final product
has been rather enjoyable. To date, there are 9 versions.
8 - Years ago, Apple had a slogan for their app
store when the first iPhone came out. “Yeah, there’s an app for that.” One day,
I went to the app store to get an app I needed. Much to my surprise, I found
out when Apple said there was an app for that; well, that was a somewhat fluid
term - meaning there was no app for what I needed. So, I designed and marketed
my own app.
9 - Somewhere in my DNA, there is a gene; I’ve
come to call it the collector’s gene. I’m pretty sure it is not far from a
hoarding gene if that is a thing, but I curate several collections. Most
notable, besides guitars, would be signed baseballs.
10 - I just love the X Files.
Sean Keefer is the award-winning author of three
legal thrillers, The Trust, The Solicitor,
and The Code,
all set in and around coastal South Carolina. He is also the author of Mediation
in the Family Courts of South Carolina, a legal treatise on family law
mediation. He lives and writes in Charleston, South Carolina. In addition to
his writing, Sean is a recording and performing guitarist/singer/songwriter of
Americana and Alt-Country music. Watch him sing Carolina Sunset which was
inspired by his latest book, The Code. Listen here!
For more information about his writing and music, visit SeanKeefer.com and
ADogNamedBear.com. Follow him on Facebook @theNoahParksMysterySeries
and @SeanKeeferMusic.
Follow him on Instagram @NoahParksMysteries
and @1ADogNamedBear1
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