Audrey J. Cole, you clever, clever woman! This story has a plot twist that I guarantee you will not be see coming! I sat with my mout open afterwards, and I am already planning on re-reading this story just so I can catch all the little clues she leaves for the reader.

It takes a bit to get into, because you wonder if Mikayla really did bring her baby, Liam, onto the plane? Did the co-pilot have something to do with it, or is she hiding something else? Did her husband, Jack’s appearance on Forbes magazine make their baby a target? Did her husband’s boss’s fraud have anything to do with her baby’s disappearance? What about Jack’s old girlfriend, who is also his boss’s daughter? The FBI is involved. The plane is searched more than once, including people’s carry-on luggage. Mikayla becomes so frantic that she has to be restrained. Then it becomes an adrenaline-rush to keep reading until you find the answers to all these questions. Definitely a page-turner!

Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Writing: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plot: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Characters: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Tropes, etc: Missing Child, Everyone’s a Suspect, Mental Health In Question
POV: Multiple, 3rd Person
Cliffhanger?: No

The Praise: I really liked this! It was interesting, action-packed, and kept me guessing. I also loved that the relationship issues between Makayla & Jack and Anna & Carter were resolved by the end, it made my little romance reader heart happy.

The Critique: The motive behind the kidnapping was a little flimsy to me.

Final Thoughts: Twisty, frustrating, and unexpectedly sweet. I’ll definitely be recommending this to my friends who are mystery/thriller fans.

Thank you for the opportunity to preview Missing In Flight. Wild ride! This is a fast paced novel centered on a woman traveling with her son Liam. Macaulay has been suffering. She lost her mother tragically and her marriage is not stable. Her husband Jack is an investment banker who is detached and does not pay much attention to his family. Macaulay is on a flight from Alaska. She takes a quick bathroom break and when she returns her son is gone.
How can this happen?
This suspenseful and tense novel will have you guessing till the end.
Well written and although I thought I had it figured out the ending was satisfying.
4 stars

This was a fast paced read that gave me TJ Newman vibes. The story had me hooked quickly but by the end when we learn what happened to Liam, I was skeptical. It just all seemed very far fetched. Compared to the build up it also seemed kind of rushed. That’s all ok though, I still really enjoyed the quick read!

This book kept me on the edge of my seat!

It was a guessing game, very intriguing and smart, very entertaining and the twists were sharp.

I love Audrey’s writing style, and she turned out to be one of my auto buy authors for sure.

I really loved the twists and turns that kept me invested since the first chapter. It was also a fast paced thriller where the main character Mikayla is a desperate mom looking for her son, where she shows her vulnerability and determination.

Thank you Audrey J Cole for this heart pounding thriller, I loved it and definitely recommend.

Also thank you NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Publication Day 01/07/2025

≡;- ꒰ 3 stars ꒱

・❥・thank you to netgalley & the author for providing me an arc in exchange for an honest review !!


⭑.ᐟ plot : after asking another passenger to keep an eye on her baby, makayla rossi returns to find her son gone without a trace. passengers & crew help her search for liam, but he completely vanished. with time running out and people starting to doubt whether she even brought her son with her onto the plane, makayla has to take the search into her own hands.

⭑.ᐟ characters : there are four different pov’s in this book - makayla, jack (makayla’s husband), anna (co-pilot) and tina (an FBI analyst) and is written in third pov.


𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ𐀔 personal review : “missing in flight” was my first ever thriller book and i am glad i chose this one as my first. what intrigued me before starting this was the setting, since i’m interested in aviation i was very excited to see how the plot would fall out in the setting of an airplane.
the writing was fairly easy to understand and the story was so captivating that i read this book in one sitting. i did not see the plot-twist coming at all and had so many suspicious which turned out to be wrong.
a thing i find amazing is the chapters of the other characters and their own theories and backstories. the author did a great job writing these characters, not too much boring backstory but still unraveling certain aspects of their secrets throughout the book which kept me on my toes and curious to find out more.
i’m aware it’s a book in a plane setting, but i admit that most of the captain phrases were somewhat confusing and some equipment could be even more confusing to people who don’t have much knowledge about things in an airplane.

makayla especially was a greatly written character, with her starting to sometimes doubt herself after the suspicion of all the crew and passengers, yet she still stood strong to finding her son and standing up for herself.


this is a great book for anyone looking for a quick thriller read with multiple character povs and an intriguing and compelling mystery plot.

Wow!!!!!! This is such a clever storyline. I was absolutely hooked from the start. I was on holiday so I managed to finish it in two days. Absolutely brilliant. Highly recommended.

This was such a heart pounding thriller. To start with, the majority of the setting is on a plane, so you have a sense of claustrophobia and that a missing child shouldn't be that hard to find with such limited space.

I loved the multiple POV in the book, however the aviation terminology within the pilots' POV was completely lost on me.

It started as a slow burn, but around 60% of the way through the plot really picked up and left me needing to reach the end.

So although it had a slow start, it definitely gets extra points for the original plot of the missing child storyline.

Definitely one to read!

Missing in Flight by Audrey J. Cole is a twisty suspense novel about a woman faced with the unthinkable when her infant goes missing aboard a plane to New York.

The story is told from multiple points of view, which worked okay for the most part. There were a few parts where I felt I had to suspend my imagination on events that occurred. Overall, there were some good twists and the tension of the story held my interest. The mother's plight to find her missing son was heart-pounding.

A good story from Audrey J. Cole. I would recommend this book.

#MissingInFlight #NetGalley @AmazonPub

Makayla is on flight with her infant baby, Liam. When she comes back to her seat from the bathroom, his bassinet is empty. After searching the plan, crew is shocked to find the baby missing.

I sped through this one in an afternoon as it’s very fast paced and entertaining. You can tell that alone from the plot. There’s mystery to keep you going and halfway through it turns into constant action. You will have to suspend belief a lot, especially when it’s all said and done but no one can say it’s not entertaining.

Missing in Flight comes out 1/7/25.

This book was intense and a great thriller that kept you turning the pages. The fact that a baby goes missing in the flight and can’t be found leads to all sorts of possibilities and not what I was thinking at all.
There was a lot drama throughout that kept the story interesting especially at it related to the 2 main characters of Jack and Makayla. I look forward to reading more from this author.

Missing in Flight by Audrey J. Cole
⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3.5 Stars
I was hooked on this story from the first chapter and was sat wondering what was going to happen next. I read this in 24 hours.

Mum, Makayla is flying from Anchorage to in New York alone with her baby Liam. The flight is going well until she reluctantly leaves Liam in his bassinet to go to the toilet. It is only for a few minutes she tells herself, that is until to her horror she returns to find the bassinet empty.After the flight crew search the plane there is no sign of him. But how can a baby go missing at thirty thousand feet? Soon suspicion is cast onto Makayla was the baby ever on onboard or did she make it up?

The story is told from multiple POV’s, the mother, the pilot, the father and the FBI Agent. The book jumps back and forward between them throughout the story.

I had a-lot of theory in my mind about who could have done it and just as I thought I had solved it a new suspect would be thrown into the mix and I was proven wrong. This book had a lot of red herrings. I was kind of hoping for more conspiracy.

I admit I had to suspend my believe by the end of the book and I now have a lot of questions about aviation.

The book is due for release on the 7th January 2025 . I received an ARC of this book from Net galley in exchange of a book review, all options are my own.

After a slow start, which was necessary to build tension, the story becomes a thrill ride (flight) as the race to find a baby missing on a transcontinental flight ramps up. Where could the baby be? Didi the mom even bring a baby? Who would take him? Why?

Audrey J. Cole always writes the most ridiculously implausible stories. They are the ultimate fictional popcorn thrillers. Her books remind me of work by T.J. Newman. If you're a fan on one you'll probably like the other.

This started off intense, became a little slow and repetitive in the middle and ended with bang - literally. The story centred round three main female characters, with the story bouncing back and forth between them. The mother of the missing baby, the pilot and a FBI analyst investigating the case from the ground.

New mother Makayla acted like any mother would if her baby went missing. I find it hard to believe people wouldn't care or help her find the child in an enclosed space. I felt sorry for her the whole time and was rooting for her vindication. Her husband was also a key player and possible suspect, even though he wasn't on the plane. The story was giving me 'Flightplan' vibes when they started to question whether the baby was even on board. Personal pet peeve; I hate an amnesia storyline. It seems like lazy writing but this time it felt right for the story.

The pilots POV was less interesting and unnecessary to the story. If her chapters were cut out completely the story would have ended the same.

I loved the FBI analyst and the whole investigation on the ground. Those chapters were the most plausible parts.

Overall, it was a pulse pounding thriller that kept me on the edge of my seat. I had no idea how it was going to end and look forward to more work from this author.

Makayla asks a a fellow passenger to watch her baby while she uses the bathroom and then the baby is gone on her return.... everyone claims they never saw her with a baby. Get ready for a bumpy ride. This is told through lots of different perspectives which is my favorite. While this book was more of a slow burn it was still enjoyable and there was lots of action towards the end. I give it a 3.5

Thank you to NetGalley for early access to this book in exchange for an honest review.

Content Warnings: child abduction, murder, cheating, accidental death, death of a parent

After getting up to use the restroom on her flight, Makayla returns to find her 3-month-old Liam is missing. Despite thoroughly searching the plane, Liam is nowhere to be found. As tensions increase and passengers prove more and more unreliable, Makayla must do everything in her power to find Liam before it’s too late.

This book seemed like the perfect thriller for me. The closed system of an airplane abduction and the question of Makayla’s sanity should have been the perfect storm for me to love Missing in Flight. However, Makayla’s character was so incredibly unlikable that I found it difficult to sympathize with her. While her actions are completely understandable when you consider the fact that she is missing her child, I still found a lot of them incredibly annoying and self-sabotaging. That sounds horrible, but I did promise an honest review. Additionally, as other reviews have stated, the first 60% of the books provided endless recounts of information you are able to get from the synopsis and provided very little plot. Lastly, without spoiling anything, the twists became a bit unbelievable around the 75% mark. I can appreciate a little bit of absurdity in a thriller when it’s done well, but it seemed very sudden and rushed. Regardless (and that word holds a lot of weight here), I still had a fun time reading this and was able to fly through it (get it?) in less than 24 hours. 2/5 stars.

Wow. What a rush. This book pulled me in from the first chapter and never let go. I finished it in a day.

Makayla is on a flight to NY from Alaska where she was visiting her father with her infant son, Liam. Shortly into the flight she needs to use the bathroom and leaves a sleeping Liam in his bassinet. When she returns, Liam is gone. Nobody on the flight claims to have seen anything suspicious. In fact, nobody can remember seeing Liam at all. A search of the plane turns up nothing and people start to suspect Makayla is crazy, maybe losing her mind, and maybe Liam was never even on the flight. The FBI are on the ground investigating what they can while the plane is still flying but there is only so much they can do.

This is the first book I’ve read by this author and it was intense. I will definitely heck her out again! I love her writing style. The details are very well written and researched. Great character development and you can’t help but feel for Makayla. The story flowed with perfect intensity.

Thank you to the author, NetGalley, and Thomas and Mercer Publishing for the advance reader copy. This is my honest review. Publication date Jan 7, 2025. 5⭐️

Missing in Flight
By: Audrey J. Cole
Pub date: January 5, 2025
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
5🛩️🛩️🛩️🛩️🛩️

Cole takes me on a journey which evokes the MAMA BEAR in me. Mothers will go to any lengths to protect their children.
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This novel is atmospheric, scary, alarming, fast-paced and kept my guard up waiting for a peaceful outcome.
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Makayla is in a plane with her baby, Liam who disappears while she goes to the bathroom. Her child has to be on the flight right? Everyone on the plane does not believe her child was on board. She is panicking and questioning her own sanity.
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Her husband Jack thinks their child has been kidnapped. Jack is not convinced Liam made the flight. He has been carrying work secrets that put him and his family in jeopardy.
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The FBI gets involved and agents Tina and Pratt are investigating Jack after Liam goes missing and other situations warrant more investigation.
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There are a few passengers who are suspicious and the crew try to help as much as they can, but Makayla is outraged as she should be that her baby cannot be found.
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Thank you Thomas & Mercer for this gifted eARC. I highly recommend this spine-chilling novel.

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This was an excellent read, I always love a good thriller and the premise of this instantly excited me. This book was fast paced and left me wondering which is always a good thing and I really thoroughly enjoyed it.