Todd Borg

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. *UPDATE: As of August, 2024, Borg's books have over 89,000 Reviews, Ratings, and "Shelvings" on Goodreads and Amazon 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. However, some readers think the books should be read in the order they were written in order to reveal character development. For those who are sticklers for continuity, here goes: 1 Tahoe Deathfall 2 Tahoe Blowup 3 Tahoe Ice Grave 4 Tahoe Killshot 5 Tahoe Silence 6 Tahoe Avalanche 7 Tahoe Night 8 Tahoe Heat 9 Tahoe Hijack 10 Tahoe Trap 11 Tahoe Chase 12 Tahoe Ghost Boat 13 Tahoe Blue Fire 14 Tahoe Dark 15 Tahoe Payback 16 Tahoe Skydrop 17 Tahoe Deep 18 Tahoe Hit 19 Tahoe Jade 20 Tahoe Moon 21 Tahoe Flight 22 Tahoe Rescue There is also big news coming: A second series! While Borg will keep writing a new Owen McKenna mystery each year, coming July 1st, August 1st, September 1st, and October 1st are the first four books of a new series: 1 Wilderness Vacation 2 Wilderness Justice 3 Wilderness Punishment 4 Wilderness Threat These four books feature UCLA Medieval History professor Josie Strong. In the first book, Josie and her daughter Samantha didn't realize they'd witnessed a crime that caused powerful men to want them dead. However, their would-be assassin didn't realize how hard they will be to kill. Why? Because Professor Strong is an expert in medieval weapons. You can chase her into the dark forest, but she can take ordinary materials and construct a weapon that will astound you... These are the first four books in the "Josie Strong: Dark Road Suspense" series. If you like the characters in the Owen McKenna Tahoe Mysteries, you will like Josie and Samantha Strong and the other characters in the Dark Road Suspense series. Check them out. And please notice that the first book, Wilderness Vacation, is only 99 cents on Kindle. Hours of excitement for a fraction of the cost of a cup of coffee. Enjoy!