the light in the ruins by chris bohjalian

A Russian intelligence officer, her superiors are angry with her. The novel switches to the point of view of “Miranda,” real name Elena. One day, working on a flight to Rome, Cassie spots Miranda in the security line. She remembers Miranda drinking an incredible amount of vodka without getting drunk. Meanwhile, Cassie recovers more memories of Miranda, the woman who joined her and Alex on the night of the murder.

Tabloid newspapers dub her the “Cart Tart Killer.” Cassie hires a lawyer, Ani Mouradian, to whom she admits the truth. The FBI uncovers security camera footage from the hotel, showing Cassie arriving with Alex and leaving alone. When Miranda left, Alex and Cassie went to bed together, and that is the last thing she remembers. After dinner, they were joined by Miranda-apparently Alex’s colleague. After some flirtation on the plane, Alex invited Cassie to dinner.

The man in the bed is Alex Sokolov: Cassie met him on the flight to Dubai. how the blood had geysered onto his chest and up against the bottom of his chin, smothering the black stubble like honey.” Panicking, Cassie tries to piece together her memory of the previous night. She is about to fumble for her clothes and some painkillers when she realizes that something is wrong: “It may have been the body’s utter stillness, but it may also have been the way she could sense the amphibian cold. No stranger to the morning after, Cassie, a beautiful flight attendant in her late thirties, enjoys her job for the perks: partying and anonymous sex in hotels all over the world. Cassie wakes in a Dubai hotel room with a thumping hangover. Hailed as “the ultimate airplane book” by The Washington Post, The Flight Attendant is the twentieth novel by Bohjalian, who is best known for 1997’s Midwives, an Oprah’s Book Club selection which hit the top of the New York Times bestsellers’ chart.

Unable to remember whether she is responsible, Cassie tries to cover her tracks to get away.

The novel follows flight attendant Cassandra “Cassie” Bowden as she wakes from a drunken blackout in a Dubai hotel room to find that the man in bed beside her has been murdered. The Flight Attendant is a 2018 thriller by American author Chris Bohjalian.

The light in the ruins by chris bohjalian