T.J. Newman, a former bookseller turned flight attendant, worked for Virgin America and Alaska Airlines from 2011 to 2021.
She wrote much of Falling, her first novel, on cross-country red-eye flights while her passengers were asleep.
Newman lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
At the Waterstones blog she tagged five favorite stories set in the world of aviation, including:
Read about the other entries on the list.Flight 232 by Laurence Gonzales
An absolutely gripping piece of real-life detective work, Gonzales' meticulous piecing together of a horrific aeroplane crash from survivors' testimonies and official records reads like the most page-turning fiction.
Newman's Falling is among Louise Candlish's six top mysteries set on moving vehicles.
--Marshal Zeringue
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