Before the Fall: A Novel by Noah Hawley

  Before the Fall: A Novel by Noah Hawley. Grand Central Publishing (Hachette), 2016. Adult fiction.


From the title itself, readers can tell that there's a crash coming. Sure enough, a small private plane takes off from Nantucket and disappears before it reaches New York City.  A family of four, a high profile couple, two pilots and a flight attendant, and an artist are on board. Who survives? What happened?  The author does a good job of keeping the tension going, the intrigue convoluted, and the characters real. Hawley is best known for script writing, and both producing and writing the hit series BONES. No doubt Before the Fall will be one thriller of a movie!  (For some fun reading, pair this one with the very different, but somewhat related After the Crash by Bussi.)