RED LINE by Megan Rust

A call from a former employer pleading for Taylor Morgan to resume flying in Bethel, Alaska breaks into her medevac duties. She agrees to work for them again, but only briefly until they can replace her. Two weeks, maximum. The idea of piloting a single-engine Cessna around the treeless Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta does not appeal to her. She'd been there, done that.

However, her flight duties become a lot more interesting when alcohol-related tragedies spring up in the dry Yup'ik villages. Somebody is smuggling booze into the area, and the crime revolts her. She wants the perpetrators stopped. Turning to law enforcement for help, she finds them so under-impressed and overworked they throw the case on the back burner. So, she's on her own.

Her own investigation points her to a multitude of suspicious characters, though one by one they drop by the wayside. Literally, in the case of her primary suspect, who is killed in a plane crash. In order to ferret out the other criminals she has to ignore her own safety, even though she knows their greed could lead to murder as a means to their end.

Megan Rust is an Alaska Chapter 99 who writes mystery novels. She earned a degree in aeronautical science in 1979, gathering her instrument, multi-engine and flight-instructor ratings at the same time. She returned to Alaska to professional piloting, hauling passengers and freight. Her flying career ended five years later when, as she walked across the tarmac, a forklift not equipped with a warning signal, backed up fast and ran over her. What happed then is almost a book in itself. Go to her website to find out more - www.meganrust.com

Other books by Megan Rust: Dead Stick and Coffin Corner

Published:	Berkley, 1999
This book can be purchased from:	www.meganrust.com