HARD LANDING
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On a cold afternoon on the North Shore of Massachusetts, the body of Ellen Shepard is found hanging by the neck in the attic of her home. She leaves no family. She leaves no note. And she leaves vacant her position as the general manager of the notoriously brutal Majestic Airlines operation at Boston’s Logan Airport. The police rule her death a suicide. The company calls it a “tragic loss to the Majestic family.” But the people who worked for her call it what it is—one more victim lost to the devastating secret buried in Logan’s past, and meant to stay there.

Alex Shanahan loves the airline business. At 34 years old, she has no husband, no children, no long-term relationships—not even a dog. She has her job, which over her career has taken her from airport to airport and city to city. She lives among boxes she no longer bothers to unpack and pursues the assignments no one else will take, the ones she considers to be the best opportunities. Taking charge of the Boston operation after Ellen Shepard’s suicide is the perfect challenge for Alex.

 From the moment she sets foot at Logan, Alex is pulled into the intrigue of her predecessor’s death. She is welcomed by an obscene depiction of Ellen’s dead body twisting at the end of a rope. It’s a greeting from some of her new employees, a warning that secrets can kill, and a threat that once she knows them it will already be too late.

 But Alex wants to know the truth. She follows a trail of corruption and betrayal from the ramp at Logan to the airline’s executive suites. What she uncovers could bring down the airline and destroy the lives and careers of everyone involved. It could also cost Alex her life.

READ AN EXCERPT
Lynne has provided us with an excerpt from her first novel. The exciting prologue to HARD LANDING is now available on-line. To read this excerpt, click here.

Praise for Lynne Heitman's HARD LANDING

“Intriguing . . . HARD LANDING goes down easy, and will keep you flipping pages ‘til three a.m.”
--John Nance, Author of BLACKOUT

“Thoroughly engrossing suspense . . . An edge-of-your seat thriller that sweeps you up and carries you along for the ride.”
--Lisa Gardner, Bestselling Author of THE PERFECT HUSBAND

“Fasten your seatbelt—this story . . . is exciting from start to finish.”
--American Way, American Airlines’ in-flight magazine

“. . . Alexandra Shanahan is credibly tough and genuinely sensitive at all the right times. HARD LANDING is highly recommended.”
--Jeremiah Healy, author of THE ONLY GOOD LAWYER

"Hard Landing by Lynne Heitman  begins with the fatal crash of a commuter flight from Boston's Logan Airport to Baltimore that was carrying 21 passengers and crew. Heitman was a general manager of American Airlines' Boston operation, and she gives us an insider's view of how airlines deal with routine (and not so routine) problems in customer relations, labor, and management. Alex Shanahan has just arrived to be general manager for Majestic Airlines, her predecessor apparently having committed suicide, and Heitman leads Alex a lively dance while avoiding the obvious clichés. This is a debut novel, but I like it because it is also a good novel." 
--Robin W. Winks, The Boston Globe

"Lynne Heitman has melded the maze of today's airline industry with an intriguing murder mystery.  HARD LANDING goes down easy, and will keep you guessing - and flipping pages - 'till three a.m."
--John J. Nance, author of BLACKOUT

"There’s something mysterious happening at Boston’s Logan International Airport, and the novel’s heroine, Alex Shanahan, the new manager of the fictitious Majestic Airlines, is thrust into the middle of it. Fasten your seat belt — this story, written by an airline industry insider, is exciting from start to finish."
--American Way Magazine, Book Buzz

"HARD LANDING combines a highly likable heroine with a cleverly twisting plot ...an edge-of-your-seat thriller that sweeps you up and carries you along for the ride!"
-Lisa Gardner, author of The Perfect Husband and The Other Daughter

"A confession: I love to have an insider from a field I THOUGHT I understood show me how I was wrong. Lynne Heitman's debut mystery, HARD LANDING, delves beneath the ticket counters and departure gates to expose how both a major airline and a major airport really work. The Boston settings are dead-on, and Alexandra Shanahan is credibly tough and genuinely sensitive at all the right times. Highly recommended."
--Jeremiah Healy, author of SPIRAL and THE ONLY GOOD LAWYER

Covers From Around The World

Lynne's  novels are being published all over the world!  We have a collection of covers from the US, UK and Italy for your viewing pleasure.  As more covers come in we'll put them up, so check back often.
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PURCHASE
If you're looking for copies of Lynne's HARD LANDING, you can order them from Kate at Kate's Mystery Books in Boston. You can find her at www.katesmysterybooks.com.