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TAHOE DEATHFALL

Disaster struck when twin sisters Jennifer and Melissa Salazar went hiking with their grandmother on their sixth birthday. Melissa got lost, fell off the rock slide above Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe and died.

It looked like a tragic accident.

Eight years later, fourteen-year-old Jennifer wants to hire detective Owen McKenna to look into the death which she believes was a murder.

Only one person believed it was murder.

When Owen begins to investigate, another body is discovered. Owen’s girlfriend Street Casey, a forensic entomologist, analyzes maggots found in the corpse. Her information helps Owen connect the body to the case. Owen uncovers information that takes him from Tahoe to San Francisco to a rich man’s private island off the coast of Santa Barbara. The man directs him to an asylum in the Nevada desert. Although the facility is surrounded by armed guards, Owen breaks in and learns of a long-buried secret that caused the murder of Jennifer’s sister and several others in her family.

A deadly secret has resurfaced.

Jennifer is the next intended victim.

And a killer is striking with impunity…

When Owen realizes who the murderer is, he races back to Lake Tahoe. Owen and his Great Dane Spot will need every second if they are to catch him. The killer has Jennifer and she has only minutes left to live…

 

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TAHOE BLOWUP

When detective Owen McKenna’s cabin narrowly escapes burning in an arson-set forest fire, the local fire department hires him to investigate. With the aid of his Great Dane Spot and search-and-rescue-dog Natasha, Owen discovers a burned body.

A second fire and a second body follow. Although Owen doesn’t know if the deaths are murders or accidents, it is clear that the arsonist is deadly serious about his threat to light a monster fire that will incinerate a large part of Lake Tahoe.

Before Owen can close in, the firestarter kidnaps Owen’s girlfriend Street Casey. Owen and Spot have just hours if they are to save Street before she burns up in a fire so big, fire fighters call it a BLOWUP.

TAHOE ICE GRAVE

It was supposed to be a suicide.

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.

It turned into a murder.

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 files 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.

A madman is killing everyone in his way.

As more people die, Owen tracks a vicious killer who looks like a Viking. Owen follows the Viking back to Tahoe and learns of a cave of ice that is sacred to Tahoe's Washoe Indians.

The manuscript may have turned up in Tahoe.

The killer has, too...

Thos, who was half Washoe, may have hidden the manuscript in the Tahoe cave. Only one person, whose identity is unknown, knows the answer. Owen and his Great Dane Spot have to find that person before the Viking does and they are running out of time as they chase the Viking up a mountain in a blizzard to a cave of ice and a battle to the death.

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TAHOE KILLSHOT

On a gorgeous August morning the pop star Glory went mountain biking on the world-famous Flume Trail high above the east shore of Lake Tahoe. Something caused her to ride off the cliff-hugging path and she died when she plunged to the rocks below.

A famous star dies on a mountain bike.

Everyone thinks it was a terrible accident until private investigator Owen McKenna gets a call from a frightened young woman who says she has information about Glory's death. Owen's investigation turns up lots of suspects but no good leads until he gets a taunting call from someone who speaks with a synthetic voice.

The next victim is killed in an explosion.

Owen realizes that the murderer has been watching him and his friends, including his girlfriend Street Casey, Deputy Diamond Martinez and Owen's Great Dane Spot.

A third victim falls from the sky.

While Owen can't figure out why a sick killer with a robotic voice is killing people in exotic ways, he know it has something to do with a huge money-making scam.

Now McKenna and Spot are on the death list...

Owen needs Spot and search-and-rescue dog Natasha to literally sniff out the killer because the bodies are piling up , and Owen's name is at the top of the killer's list...