Author: Jessie Garcia
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Date Published: January 14, 2025
The Business Trip by Jessie Garcia
Holy cow! This is a debut author? Bravo!!
I really wish I could reveal spoilers, because I feel like I need to talk about parts of this book in more detail. But let’s just start with the idea of meeting your seatmate on a plane. When you think about it, you’re on a plane for maybe 2 hours, or more. You’re a captive audience and hopefully you’ve brought a book or are watching a movie on your device or the seat back. But you and your seatmate click. You find yourself revealing so much about yourself, because hey, you are never going to see this person again, right?
But then these two women go missing and the only thing they have in common is that they both texted friends that they had met a guy, Trent McCarthy. Presumably Stephanie has extended her trip to get to know Trent but her texts to her friends and co-workers just aren’t making sense. And since Jasmine let her one friend know she was fleeing her husband and would be in touch, no one except her abusive husband is missing her. I was scratching my head trying to figure out what was going on. And then the twist happened. And just when you think everything is tied up in a neat bundle…another twist!
I am a big fan of debut authors and I highly recommend this well done, fast paced book by Jessie Garcia!
Thank you to St. Martin’s Press for an advance reader’s copy.
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