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Jan Burke is the recipient of the Edgar Award, the Macavity Award, the Agatha Award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Award. She lives in Southern California with her husband, Tim, and her two dogs. Visit her Web site at http://www.janburke.com.
Photograph © Blake Little
Flight
When the wreckage of a small plane belonging to a Las Piernas Police Department detective who disappeared a decade ago is discovered in the San Bernardino Mountains, an emotional and disturbing triple-homicide case is reopened with a vengeance. Was the pilot a sellout who murdered a key witness? Alone, following his instincts, homicide detective Frank Harriman traces the path of his predecessor to uncover the truth --- and comes face-to-face with a madman whose killing intent has just taken off.
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Jan Burke's Summer Reading List
Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America With Einstein's Brain
by Michael Paterniti
One of my cousins sent this to me. Two pages into it and I'm totally hooked.
Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
The story of why I'm reading Tom Jones is three books away. My husband and I enjoy reading aloud to each other. We were having a great time reading Jasper Fforde's wonderful The Eyre Affair --- highly recommend it, by the way --- and realized, about halfway through the book, that each of us thought the other had read Jane Eyre. No --- I had seen the old movie, but that would never be counted. Yes, I know. You are saying, "Not read Jane Eyre!" But these things happen. I congratulate any of you who have read *all* of the classics, but in our case there are gaps here and there. So we read Jane Eyre and enjoyed that, too. Then went back to The Eyre Affair and enjoyed it even more now that we were, shall we say, more informed readers. So, I decided to do a little more gap-filling this summer. I picked Tom Jones because a crime writer owes something to Henry Fielding and his half-brother Sir John. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can fill in one of your history gaps by reading a text about English law enforcement and criminal justice. (You'll probably just use Google to find out more. Whatever works, but that's worse than just counting on the movie version.)
Prodigal Summer
by Barbara Kingsolver
A more contemporary gap I've wanted to fill.
Daredevil's Apprentice
by Letha Albright
Because so many people have said good things about this mystery, I'm putting it at the top of the heap of crime fiction I hope to catch up on this summer.
The Snow Geese
by William Fiennes
Word-of-mouth recommendations again!
Kristin Lavransdatter
by Sigrid Undset
It won the Novel Prize in 1928. But I want to read it because one of the long-lost cousins our family recently found recommended it, and I have a feeling she and I have a kinship in our reading tastes as well. (We really found some long-lost cousins, but that's a long story.)
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