Crawford has penned a tale that has flashes of brilliance mixed in with loose ends.  I think I know what points were being made, what the reader is supposed to assume about Jane.  The prologue seems to set the scene but the first chapter confuses me.  The second chapter starts to brink it together.  The memory flashbacks could refer to the time in the prologue but I’m never quite sure, it remains an unanswered question to me. There are other excellent threads throughout the book that blend in with parts of the tale that keep a reader guessing deliberately but most of them are resolved.

 

The author’s apparent knowledge of flying, especially during cliff-hanger scenes when Jane is fighting to survive, provides exceptional entertainment. Detectives MacCaffrey and Clark are better-than-average characters.  One is falling in love with Jane, the other is trying to end his career on a positive note.  Their development throughout the book makes them much more complete than Jane, the one the book raised questions about. Nelson is a complex character that can get the reader emotionally involved.  So many parts of the book live up to all I want in a book.  One key piece that I need is missing.