Saturday April 23, 2005

Tahoe Deathfall

I finished this book last night after the local poker game broke early. This is the second in a series of mystery books by Todd Borg. The first was Tahoe Blowup. I didn't enjoy Tahoe Deathfall as much as I enjoyed the earlier book. The main character (a detective named Owen McKenna) was developed reasonable well as is his girlfriend but the rest of the characters are harder to get close to. They are either very strange or keep developing well into the epilog. While this is a murder mystery some of the plot devices are a little unbelievable. Owen is an ex-policeman from San Francisco turned private investigator in Lake Tahoe. But multiple times he commits felonys for what looks like dubious ROI to me. Other plot devices are equally hard to believe although I won't detail them as to not destroy the storyline. One or two of these eyebrow raisers would make for good plot devices but they came too thick to make this book as enjoyable as the first one. Still, its centered around Tahoe and I have a hard time not enjoying the references to places I have breakfast or places I hike. ( Apr 23 2005, 11:12:20 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]