Author: noahhawley

The debut literary thriller that launched the career of the bestselling author of Before the Fall and the creator of the show Fargo. Linus Owen is a young professor of conspiracy theory at a small college just outside San Francisco. His marriage is foundering and his wife, Claudia, has gone to Chicago to visit her mother. But if Claudia is in Chicago, how is it that two FBI agents show up at … that two FBI agents show up at Linus’ office and inform him that Claudia has been killed in a plane crash on her way from New York…

A runaway New York Times bestseller called “an astonishing, character-driven tour de force” (Karin Slaughter): A plane crashes, leaving only two survivors. Now one of them works to piece together what happened — and who orchestrated the event. “One of the year’s best suspense novels” (The New York Times).