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Our family recently spent the day at Lake Tahoe, hiking and going to the beach. We also visited a few gift shops there and I noticed a series of mystery books on sale there by Todd Borg. These books all had Tahoe in the title so I assumed they took place there. After returning home, I checked on this series and found some pretty good reviews of them so I decided to check out the first in the series, TAHOE DEATHFALL, from the library. It turned out to be a pretty good mystery/thriller.
Owen McKenna is a former police officer who is now a private investigation located at Lake Tahoe. In this volume, he is contacted by a 14-year-old girl, Jennifer Salazar, who wants him to investigate the death of her sister who she insists was murdered. The twin sister fell from a cliff while hiking with Jennifer and their grandma when they were six years old. Jennifer feels that her life is also in danger but no one believes her sister was murdered. Owen tends to believe Jennifer and takes the case "off book" because Jennifer is a minor. Jennifer is an heir to a fortune so could that be cause for the possible murder of her sister? Owen ends up following leads that take him from San Francisco to Jennifer's rich uncle's private island off the coast of Santa Barbara and then to an asylum near Las Vegas where Jennifer's mother has been held for many years as a schizophrenic. But is she really mentally disturbed? Along with the mother's help, Owen is able to untangle the mystery around the Salazar family and what really happened. Overall, a good read. There are 15 novels in this series and I'll probably be reading more of them.
Owen McKenna is a former police officer who is now a private investigation located at Lake Tahoe. In this volume, he is contacted by a 14-year-old girl, Jennifer Salazar, who wants him to investigate the death of her sister who she insists was murdered. The twin sister fell from a cliff while hiking with Jennifer and their grandma when they were six years old. Jennifer feels that her life is also in danger but no one believes her sister was murdered. Owen tends to believe Jennifer and takes the case "off book" because Jennifer is a minor. Jennifer is an heir to a fortune so could that be cause for the possible murder of her sister? Owen ends up following leads that take him from San Francisco to Jennifer's rich uncle's private island off the coast of Santa Barbara and then to an asylum near Las Vegas where Jennifer's mother has been held for many years as a schizophrenic. But is she really mentally disturbed? Along with the mother's help, Owen is able to untangle the mystery around the Salazar family and what really happened. Overall, a good read. There are 15 novels in this series and I'll probably be reading more of them.
