After a long delay, Pioneer Air Flight 868 is on its way to San Juan. Among its passengers are a high school baseball team, headed for a tournament; the bride, groom, and wedding party ready for a destination wedding; and a grieving mother whose son used to be on the team. There’s also an air marshal on board, but he’s just making a routine trip.
A few hours into the flight, the plane encounters some severely bad storms. Lightning strikes, causing a brief power and system failure, but everything seems to right itself after a moment. But then a gruesome discovery is made: a body is found in one of the bathrooms. And this wasn’t a death by natural causes.
It’s up to Renaldo, the air marshal, to investigate what happened without causing panic to erupt on the plane. While the pilot and first officer try to find a new place to land—and have to deal with more mechanical problems—Renaldo has to make sure that the murderer isn’t going to kill again.
What he quickly discovers is that there are more than a few people on the plane with secrets they’re hiding. And there seems to be a connection to an accident which occurred three years earlier. Can Renaldo find answers before it’s too late?
I first found Susan Walter when I read her beautiful book, Letters from Strangers. I had no idea she was a thriller writer until afterward, and now I’m hooked! This just delivered punch after punch, and every time I thought all was calm…nope! Really an excellent thrill ride.
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