Missing In Flight - Audrey J. Cole || Review

 

From USA Today bestselling author Audrey J. Cole comes a harrowing thriller about a woman faced with the unthinkable, when her infant goes missing aboard a plane to New York.

Rushing back to her seat, Makayla Rossi is relieved that all’s still quiet. But when she checks on her sleeping baby, relief morphs into fear. The bassinet is empty. 

 Liam is gone. 

 It was a long flight from Anchorage to New York, and with every flight attendant busy, Makayla reluctantly ran to the restroom, asking a seat neighbor to watch her son. She stepped away for just a few minutes. Yet at thirty thousand feet, he still vanished.

 Passengers and crew scour the plane to no avail, and since no one recalls seeing her with a baby, suspicions begin to mount about Makayla’s mental state. She’s certain this is nothing like her mother’s on-air memory meltdown. If only Jack, her husband, were there. He would believe her. A high-profile banker featured in Forbes, maybe he could even help. 

 But Makayla is squarely on her own. And she’ll have to think fast in order to find her son—before it’s too late.

Taking a break from cracking through older netgalley books, i opted for this read which i had picked up on a kindle 99p deal at some point because i had heard rave reveiews.  From the opening pages, this was so fast paced, i mean if you are basing your book on a flight though, there is limited time to get into the action and it really needs to kick off straight away. 

Makayla is on a flight home to her husband with her son, when she fails to find a flight attendant who is avaliable to watch him whilst she nips to the bathroom, she just asks a nearby passenger, after all he is asleep. However, when she returns - he is gone. As the frantic hunt for her son begins - as a reader it kept me frantically turning the pages after all, there is only so many places he could be surely. 

In the meantime, when the news is broken to her husband, we start to get a glimpse into their lives, is he involved in this? We also learn more about Maykayla is she reliable? Can she be trusted? Did anyone even see her son get on the flight?

The author does a fantastic job of creating doubt for the reader, which soon makes you feel you are unsure who you can trust, what motives there are and you are not really sure where it is going. I really enjoyed the whole experience as a reader because of the pacing, the narrative and the twists and turns. Whilst i did find some of it a bit out there and not what i expected, it certainly packed a punch. I did think some of it was a bit far fetched but i tell you what, if this was a movie it would also be right up my street too. So overall i do think this was a brilliant read. 

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Audrey J. Cole is a USA TODAY bestselling thriller author. She resides in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two children. Before writing full time, she worked as a neonatal intensive care nurse for eleven years. She’s also a pilot's daughter.