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Early one frigid morning in January a young man named Thos Kahale walked into the icy waters of Lake Tahoe and died a brutal death. Hired to investigate, Owen McKenna learns that the Hawaiian side of the man's family had a secret shrine hidden in a cave in the cliffs of Kauai. Owen Flies to Kauai and hears about a long-lost manuscript that Mark Twain left when he visited Kauai in 1866. The manuscript, which would be worth millions, is rumored to have been lost in a hurricane. Owen suspects that it was hidden in the secret shrine. As more people die, Owen tracks a vicious killer who looks like a Viking. Owen follws the Viking back to Tahoe and learns of a cave of ice that is sacred to Tahoe's Washoe Indians. Thos, who was half Washoe, may have hidden the manuscript in the Tahoe cave.
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Special note: Borg recently served as Toastmaster at the national Left Coast Crime convention. Past toastmasters include Lee Child, Harlan Coben, Rick Riordan, Nevada Barr, James Lee Burke.Check out the website: http://www.leftcoastcrime.org/2018/ *UPDATE: As of April, 2020, Borg's books have over 600,000 paper books and ebooks in distribution, and 5400 reviews on amazon.com at an average of 4.6 stars.Tahoe local Todd Borg is the author of the Tahoe Mystery series, which feature Owen McKenna, a former homicide inspector from the San Francisco PD. As the books open, McKenna has quit the police department and moved up to Tahoe to be a private investigator. Like a lot of fictional detectives, McKenna has a sidekick, only his is a 170-pound Harlequin Great Dane named Spot. Other regular characters include Owen's girlfriend Street Casey, an entomologist who does forensic consulting on his cases, and Owen's best buddy, Diamond Martinez, a naturalized citizen from Mexico who is a sergeant with a local county Sheriff's Office.Borg's books are fun fast reads with a lot of action. They've gotten great reviews coast-to-coast, including a starred review in Library Journal. They've won awards like the Ben Franklin Award for Best Mystery of the Year, been chosen by Library Journal as one of the Top 5 Mysteries of the Year and more. But the main reason to check them out is that they are entertaining reads with intelligent stories. The recurring characters will become your friends. Spot will become one of your favorite dogs. You'll love visiting Tahoe from your armchair. And the bad guys will make you... well, let's just say you will despise them. The order of the books is not critical. You can start with any title, and you won't feel that you're missing important information. In fact, Borg recommends starting with the most recent title, Tahoe Deep. (Authors like to think that they tell grander, more complex, and more nuanced stories as time goes by.) However, there are some readers who think the books should be read in the order they were written in order to reveal important character development. For those who are sticklers for continuity, here goes:1 Tahoe Deathfall2 Tahoe Blowup3 Tahoe Ice Grave4 Tahoe Killshot5 Tahoe Silence6 Tahoe Avalanche7 Tahoe Night8 Tahoe Heat9 Tahoe Hijack10 Tahoe Trap11 Tahoe Chase12 Tahoe Ghost Boat13 Tahoe Blue Fire14 Tahoe Dark15 Tahoe Payback16 Tahoe Skydrop17 Tahoe Deep18 Tahoe HitPlease visit http://www.toddborg.com
