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When Tahoe resident Jonas Montrop is kidnapped, his father pays the ransom but is then murdered. The next day, four robbers in hoodies and hockey masks take down an armored truck loaded with cash destined for a casino at Lake Tahoe. The company's boss calls Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna. As McKenna tracks the robbers, he finds two of them murdered in the grisliest of ways. McKenna uncovers evidence that implicates a young woman named Evan Rosen in all three murders. Evan worked for the father of the kidnap victim, and she had a powerful motivation for wanting the robbers dead. Evan is arrested and charged with murder. The problem is that McKenna doesn't believe Evan did it. The only way to save her from death row is to find the real killer. But this killer is smarter and meaner than any McKenna has ever caught.
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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
