Her Last Flight

I love historical fiction that focuses on strong female characters, especially when it’s written by Beatriz Williams, who is a master at slowly unfurling connections between characters years apart. Her latest book, Her Last Flight, is a kind of homage to Amelia Earhart and the daring men and women of the 1920s and ’30s who took to the skies to prove that airplanes were the future of travel. In 1928, 20-year-old Irene Foster meets famed aviator Sam Mallory, who teaches her to fly before the two attempt a historic flight from California to Australia. Irene’s fame soon eclipses Sam’s as everyone is fascinated by a woman pilot, until they both disappear without a trace 10 years later. In 1947, a daring female journalist with her own secrets tracks down a woman she believes to be Irene, as she tries to discover what really happened to Sam and Irene on that last flight.