The 2021 Pikes Peak Library District Mountain of Authors virtual keynote speaker is author and retired homicide detective Lt. Joe Kenda, who will speak for approximately 45 minutes, and then open it up to a question and answer session.

Register to attend the Zoom event and get a chance to win an autographed copy of his new book Killer Triggers.

Lt. Joe Kenda, a 23-year veteran of the Colorado Springs Police Department, spent 21 years chasing killers as a homicide detective and commander of the major crimes unit. Kenda and his team solved 356 of his 387 homicide cases, getting a 92 percent solve rate—one of the highest in the country. After retiring from law enforcement, he starred in Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda, an American true-crime documentary series that ran for nine seasons on the Investigation Discovery network and was aired in sixty-nine countries and territories worldwide. At its peak, Homicide Hunter averaged 1.9 million viewers in the US. See Lt. Kenda on his new crime series, American Detective, available to stream now on discovery+.

Photo credit Investigation Discovery, Miller Mobley.