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Books for a Six-Hour Flight
Books engineered to finish in flight time. Reacher pacing, Cussler set pieces, Patterson-collaboration short chapters, Phryne Fisher whodunit machinery. Six picks our team has actually flown with.
6 books on this list.
Make Meby Lee Child
4.0“Make Me by Lee Child 2015 thriller review. Reacher rolls into a Mother Wells, South Dakota for a single name on a sign and stays for the bodies underneath the wheat.”
The Chaseby Clive Cussler
4.0“The Chase by Clive Cussler 2007 review. A Van Dorn Detective Agency historical thriller set in 1906 about a bank robber called the Butcher Bandit and the man hunting him.”
The Wreckerby Clive Cussler
4.0“The Wrecker by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott 2009 review. Isaac Bell hunts a saboteur targeting the Southern Pacific Railroad in this second Van Dorn historical thriller.”
The Jesterby Andrew Gross
4.0“The Jester by Andrew Gross and James Patterson 2003 review. A medieval-set thriller about a Crusader innkeeper turned court jester who infiltrates a French duke’s castle to find his wife.”
The Murder Houseby David Ellis
4.0“The Murder House by David Ellis and James Patterson 2015 review. A Bridgehampton detective with a tarnished badge investigates a brutal mansion killing that mirrors a sixty-year-old open case.”
Murder on a Midsummer Nightby Kerry Greenwood
4.0“Murder on a Midsummer Night by Kerry Greenwood 2008 review. The seventeenth Phryne Fisher Mystery sends the Honourable Miss Fisher chasing two cases at once in summer 1929 Melbourne.”