In case you missed it, I have just released A Fateful Plateful, book #16 in the Auntie Clem’s Bakery culinary cozy mystery series. It can be read as a stand alone mystery, or together with the rest of the series for even more enjoyment. You can start the journey with book #1, Gluten-Free Murder.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.
This week I am reading Hostage, a novel by Clare Mackintosh. Lots of interesting characters with different backgrounds and secrets, a young daughter on the ground in peril and hundreds of people up in the sky at the mercy of a hostage taker. The tension is building… it will be interesting to see how the main character, a flight attendant, manages to take control of the situation and—presumably—land the airplane!
I leave a note on Sophia’s bed—a felt-tip heart with love from Mummy underneath, something I’ve done every time I fly, ever since she learned to read.
Clare Mackintosh, Hostage
You can save hundreds of lives. Or the one that matters most…
From New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh comes a claustrophobic thriller set over 20 hours on-board the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney.
Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems with her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane never reaches its destination: “The following instructions will save your daughter’s life…”
Someone needs Mina’s assistance and knows exactly how to make her comply.
When one passenger is killed and then another, Mina knows she must act. But which lives does she save: Her passengers…or her own daughter and husband who are in grave distress back at home?
It’s twenty hours to landing. A lot can happen in twenty hours.
