Missing in Flight
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.
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Community Reviews
Missing in Flight by Audrey J. Cole is a fast-paced thriller about Makayla Rossi, a mother whose infant son mysteriously vanishes mid-flight. With no one on board remembering the baby, Makayla's sanity is questioned—especially given her family’s history of memory issues. As the investigation unfolds, secrets, lies, and a ransom plot surface, turning a routine flight into a chilling mystery at 30,000 feet.
I was immediately hooked. I'm a sucker for thrillers set on airplanes. There's just something about the confined space, limited suspects, and claustrophobic tension that makes for the perfect storm. And Missing in Flight by Audrey J. Cole absolutely delivered. This was my first read by Audrey J. Cole, and it won't be my last. The central question-where is the baby?-had me on edge the entire time. On a plane, there's only so many places to hide, and that impossibility made the suspense even more intense. I flew through this book, desperate for answers, and the pacing never let up. The story unfolds through multiple points of view, which added so much depth and tension. A few unexpected twists popped up that made me do a double take-in the best way. It was an easy, fast-paced read that kept me fully engaged from takeoff to landing.
If you are a fan of locked-room mysteries, fast-paced thrillers, and books like Hostage by Clare Mackintosh or The Chain by Adrian McKinty, you will likely devour this one. If you love unraveling a mystery piece by piece-and you're okay with some high-stakes anxiety-this one's for you.
Is she or isn't she having memory problems? As the reader you're along for the ride trying to figure that out sometimes...other times it seems obvious where the child is, but then that means the flight attendants have to be in on it too... but then as more information unfolds, maybe they are maybe they are not - back and forth between being on the plane being with the FBI being with the husband... some of the chapters get a little confusing at times because of the jumping around isn't consistent, so pay attention to the chapter headings, but still seems there was some extra stuff that maybe was trying to distract you to keep you off your game, but could have been left out for clarity.
The ending was less satisfying, after finally getting 'her way' while on flight she caused a problem that she would have to deal/live with, that as a reading you're thinking, ummm...don't do that! That's not going to end well, find another way... and still after resolving a number of questions all neat and tidy the story continued to recount the ways things moved on, longer than necessary. Sometimes when you finish writing you should just end it there, not keep going, this kept going when it wasn't needed. 3.5 rounded to 4
The ending was less satisfying, after finally getting 'her way' while on flight she caused a problem that she would have to deal/live with, that as a reading you're thinking, ummm...don't do that! That's not going to end well, find another way... and still after resolving a number of questions all neat and tidy the story continued to recount the ways things moved on, longer than necessary. Sometimes when you finish writing you should just end it there, not keep going, this kept going when it wasn't needed. 3.5 rounded to 4