Sunday June 05, 2005

Tahe Ice Grave

Tahoe Ice Grave, Todd Borg, ISBN 1-931296-13-8, ~288 pages.

Tahoe Ice Grave is the third is the Own McKenna Mystery Thriller series. I've written about the two earlier books, Tahoe Deathfall and Tahoe Blowup, in the past. I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that I read them out of order and didn't realize until I was into the second book. I think some of my discomfort with the earlier books character development was partially based on this confusion. In any case I recommend those books as fun reads. Tahoe Ice Grave follows in the same line as the earlier books. A mysterious death is investigated by Owen McKenna. Besides a sequence of events which happen in the Tahoe area (stretching to Virginia City) Owen also travels to Hawaii to gather evidence. And hey, Owen is still going to my favorite breakfast spot (off diet!) and happens to venture into my neighborhood! If there was anything I disliked about the storyline it was a plot device used at the end to clean up some loose ends. But that doesn't distract much from my enjoyment of the story. ( Jun 05 2005, 10:30:55 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]