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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.

  1. Make Me
    Make Me

    by Lee Child

    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.

  2. The Chase
    The Chase

    by Clive Cussler

    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.

  3. The Wrecker
    The Wrecker

    by Clive Cussler

    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.

  4. The Jester
    The Jester

    by Andrew Gross

    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.

  5. The Murder House
    The Murder House

    by David Ellis

    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.

  6. Murder on a Midsummer Night
    Murder on a Midsummer Night

    by Kerry Greenwood

    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.

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