Todd Borg has been a presence on my blog almost as much as Scrabble. He is a delightful, award-winning murder mystery writer who launches his newest novel at the South Lake Tahoe Library every summer.

Todd Borg and his wife moved from Minnesota to Lake Tahoe in 1990. After his fourth Tahoe novel, he sold his business to write full time.

In addition to winning the Ben Franklin Award for Best Mystery of the Year, Todd Borg's Owen McKenna mysteries have been chosen for Top 5 Mystery lists by the prestigious Library Journal, and by Mystery News Reviewer G. Wedgwood. He's won Best Mystery and Best Thriller honors from the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association and received Best New Fiction accolades from libraries. His novels have also received starred reviews and raves in major trade journals and newspapers across the country

Wilderness Vacation has the intriguing protagonist, UCLA Medieval History (and expert weapons maker) Professor Josie Strong, one of the few Black women professors nationwide. She has succeeded very well in a challenging career. It remains to be seen if she can succeed as a single mother raising her 14-year-old daughter Samantha... and avoid being killed in the process!