This book is part of a series of mysteries starring the same detective. In that way, it’s formulaic and like many other mysteries. On the other hand, this book prominently features real facts from the TWA Flight 800 crash. It’s where fact meets fiction that’s sometimes unclear. I’m not sure how I feel about present-day novels that mix fact and fiction so freely. Somehow it seems less of an issue with historical fiction since history is somehow more fixed and known, but I think that’s just an illusion anyway. So, easy mystery to read and enjoy? Yes. Expose about TWA 800? No.

Not much of a review, but I really enjoyed this book. I’ve read a number of DeMille’s books, and although his formula was wearing thin on me by the last book of his I read (Spencerville) and this one follows the same formula, I think it’s his best book yet.
A real page-turner, I found this one hard to put down.