Owen McKenna mystery thrillers
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 1
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Twin sisters went hiking with their grandmother for their sixth birthday. One of them got lost, fell of a cliff and died. Eight years later, fourteen-year-old Jennifer wants to hire Owen Mckenna to look into the death which she believes is a murder...
2) Tahoe blowup
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 2
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"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"--p. [4] of cover.
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 3
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Baffling clues impede a police probe of the murder of athletic young Thos Kahale, a Lake Tahoe transplant. Wearing only a pair of skis and clutching a suicide note, the Hawaiian native is found shot in the back of the head on a snowy mountain, leaving his Native American mother Janeen to raise his chronically shy son Phillip alone. Suspecting police incompetence (and maybe a little racism), Janeen hires smooth Tahoe shamus Owen McKenna.
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 4
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When the pop star Glory is killed mountain biking on the world-famous Flume Trail high above the east shore of Lake Tahoe, Detective Owen McKenna and his Great Dane Spot are drawn into a harrowing investigation. What first appears to be the carnage of a thrill-killer, begins to look like the fallout from a complicated, multimillion-dollar land scam. Owen and Spot must track down a twisted murderer with a synthetic voice and a penchant for killing...
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 5
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Detective Owen McKenna and his Great Dane Spot race against time to find the kidnappers of Sal Anne "Silence" Ramirez, a seventeen-year-old mute autistic girl believed to have been abducted by a notorious biker gang and its charismatic leader who receives commands from Aztec gods.
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 6
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When a monster avalanche crashes down at Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, a young man named March Carrera is swept off the mountain highway. March's uncle, Bill Esteban, a wealthy Houston businessman with a house in Tahoe, has a hunch that March's disappearance isn't an accident. Esteban contacts Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna and asks him to investigate.
7) Tahoe night
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 7
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TV talk show host Leah Printner had a successful life until a car accident killed her loving husband and left her face badly scarred, ending her thriving career. After Leah gets out of the hospital, the landlady of Leahs father tells Detective Owen McKenna that she believes a man is stalking Leah. The landlady thinks that both father and daughter are in danger. Will McKenna look into it? McKenna is only on the job a few hours before the father is...
8) Tahoe heat
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 8
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A piano tuning code, a wild Mustang, and a kidnapping are connected to the murder of a rising star in Silicon Valley, sending Owen McKenna on a deadly chase that leads to a high-altitude lab above lake Tahoe.
9) Tahoe hijack
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 9
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"When Detective Owen McKenna responds to a boat hijacking on Lake Tahoe, he is confronted by a madman who claims to know the identity of the murderer of Grace Sun, a case that McKenna worked on three years before"--P. [4] of cover.
10) Tahoe trap
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 10
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Tahoe detective Owen McKenna receives a call for help from a young boy named Paco who had just witnessed the murder of his foster mother and is hidden in the back of the murderer's pickup truck and Owen races to find Paco before the murderers can find him.
When Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna answers his phone early one morning, a young boy named Paco cries out, Help me! McKenna talks to Paco and discovers that the boy is trapped in the back of a speeding...
11) Tahoe chase
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 11
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Simone Bonnaire, a young French woman who lives in Tahoe, has a sadistic boyfriend who abuses her. Simone's only friend is Cynthia Rorvik, an older woman who provides comfort.When Cynthia falls from her deck and ends up in a coma, her 92-year-old, former Olympic ski racer husband Joe Rorvik calls Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna and asks him to investigate.McKenna discovers a string of deaths that look like accidents. But he can find no other connection...
12) Tahoe ghost boat
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 12
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"Gertie O'Leary is a 15-year-old girl with a messy bird's nest of red hair, a serious softball pitch, and a dream to be a movie director. She also has a $2 million price on her head. When a gang led by a killer the FBI calls Mikhailo the Monster takes Gertie as the centerpiece of an extortion plot, the girl's mother calls Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna for help. McKenna finds out that Gertie's stepfather has just died in what looks like a boating accident...
13) Tahoe blue fire
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 13
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When Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna gets a call from a woman who's afraid for her life, it sounds like she's excessively paranoid. Until she's murdered.McKenna investigates and learns that the killer may be after a precious artifact that dates back to Renaissance Italy. McKenna also finds a connection between the victims and a famous pro football tackle named Adam Simms. Simms seems gentle as a teddy bear. But decades of football gave Simms Traumatic...
14) Tahoe dark
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 14
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Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna tries to save a young woman who is wrongly accused of murder.
15) Tahoe payback
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 15
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The First Body Is Found On Lake Tahoe's Only Island, when a man tells Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna that his girlfriend disappeared, McKenna wonders if the woman got cold feet and ran away. But when she turns up murdered on Fannette Island with red roses in her mouth, McKenna discovers that she used a scam charity to steal millions. WHEN more bodies follow---a second victim is found with a tennis ball crammed into his mouth. A third has military medals...
16) Tahoe skydrop
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 16
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A computer genius created a startup worth a billion dollars. Tahoe tech guru Yardley LaMotte had a vision for future robots that could transform the world. He started a company called Tahoe Robotics. A murderous gang wanted the software. Twisted killers with ties to a Swedish prison gang figured out how to steal the software. All they needed was the key to unlock the computer code. The killers kidnap a child who may know the password. A brilliant...
17) Tahoe deep
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 17
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In 1940, a teenage blind boy named Danny Callahan witnessed the scuttling of the SS Tahoe Steamer, the grandest ship to ever sail Lake Tahoe. Eighty years later, a killer beats up old man Daniel Callahan, demanding to know the truth about a secret that went down with the ship. If Callahan doesn't tell all he knows, the people closest to Callahan will die...
18) Tahoe hit
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 18
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Thriller Press
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2020.
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Carston Kraytower’s San Francisco hedge fund is hugely profitable. But Kraytower has a secret background he’ll do anything to conceal. Two of his colleagues know what he’s hiding. All seems okay until they start dying in inexplicable ways up at Lake Tahoe. Kraytower’s son Joshua grows up surrounded by riches and secrets and deadly mysteries. Those mysteries drive a killer to seek revenge. The killer kidnaps Joshua, the one person who is innocent....
19) Tahoe Jade
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 19
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Thriller Press
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2021.
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"A Letter From Abe Lincoln. In the fall of 1861, President Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to the new governor of California, Leland Stanford. Lincoln sent the letter by Pony Express, which went through Tahoe. The letter from Lincoln was intercepted, and it never reached Stanford. An Assault, A Fire, A Kidnapping 160 years later, Firefighter Jade Jaso was assaulted in Sacramento. The next day she nearly died in a warehouse fire. A short time later,...
20) Tahoe moon
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Owen McKenna mystery thrillers volume 20
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Thriller Press
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[2022]
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"When Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna finds a lost girl, 8-year-old Camille Dexter, he doesn't realize that her grandfather and only guardian has been murdered and a killer has been hired to kill Camille and dump her body in the lake. McKenna also doesn't know that Camille has no relatives or friends because she and her grandfather have been living in his camper. Complicating the situation is that Camille is deaf. Brilliant but deaf." --
"A Young Girl...