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Introducing the newest 
Owen McKenna mystery! 

(August, 2010)


TAHOE HEAT

When bio-tech genius Ryan Lear's life is threatened and his business partner is murdered, Ryan calls Detective Owen McKenna and asks for help.

McKenna discovers that someone is trying to destroy Ryan and take over his fast-growing company. Ryan's company has made a hugely valuable scientific breakthrough at a high-altitude lab far above Lake Tahoe on the side of Mt. Rose. 

Soon after McKenna is on the job, Ryan's elderly neighbor, a famous piano tuner, dies after tuning his own piano. The piano has a bad tune, an inexplicable aberration for the expert tuner.

Wondering if the deceased neighbor may have known something about the case, McKenna hires another tuner to investigate and learns that the neighbor had incorporated a type of message encoded in the vibration of the strings. 

McKenna also learns about a wild Mustang (named HEAT by Tahoe locals) that is running free in Tahoe's forests, miles from the desert that is his home.

McKenna can't figure out the tuning message or the reason why the Mustang is loose in Tahoe, but he knows that both are connected to a vicious killer who is planning the ultimate revenge...

BORG'S AWARDS

Ben Franklin Award for Best Mystery of the Year (see below)
One of the Five Best Mysteries of the Year 

     - Library Journal
One of the Top Five Mysteries of the Year 
     - G. Wedgwood, Mystery News
Best Thriller of the Year 
     - Bay Area Independent Publishers Association
Best Mystery of the Year 
     - Bay Area Independent Publishers Association
Best New Fiction - Cincinnati Library

Starred (Rave) Reviews 
     - Library Journal, Midwest Book Review, Mystery News, Nevada Appeal, San Jose Mercury News and numerous other papers and magazines and websites
Amazon Mystery/Thriller Bestseller List

 

 

Borg walking up to receive the Ben Franklin Best Mystery of the Year Award for
TAHOE SILENCE (The cover is displayed on the big screens)
The award ceremony was held at the posh Wilshire Grand in Los Angeles

Good ol' Ben on the slab of glass
Gold sticker on the book

Notice above that TAHOE BLOWUP 
was a silver medal finalist in 2002

!NEW! The Owen McKenna T-Shirt

 

"I had to rethink everything, 
from Chocolate to Paris."

- Owen McKenna

This luxurious long-sleeved T-Shirt comes from a line that McKenna says in the upcoming McKenna thriller #8, due out this summer. Nick-named the "Epiphany T-Shirt," more details are on the order page.

 

BREAKING NEWS! You can now order "Owen's Omelette" at the Red Hut Breakfast Shops in South Lake Tahoe!

For more info go to "Owen's Page" and page down to the omelette photo!

 

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