The Business Trip by Jessie Garcia ~ a Review

by Susan Roberts

The Business Trip is the gripping, page-turning debut from author Jessie Garcia.

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January 2025; St. Martin's; 978-1250364418
audio, ebook, print (352 pages); domestic thriller

This is one of the best suspense books that I've read in a long time.  The twists and turns kept coming and I didn't have it figured out until late in the book and even when I did, there was a major twist in the last several chapters that  I never saw coming.

I can't tell you too much about the plot because I don't want to give anything away but here is a short synopsis.  The two main characters are Stephanie and Jasmine.  They don't know each other and their lives are very different.  Stephanie is a news director on her way to a business conference in San Diego.   Jasmine is a waitress who wants to get as far away from her abusive husband as she can.  The first time their paths cross, they meet on an airline flight and talk during their flight to Denver.  Once they land, the story takes a big shift and life has all kinds of changes ahead.  A few days after they land, Stephanie's friends start getting some very strange texts from her about a man that she met at the conference.  The texts get so bizarre that her friends begin to worry about her.  No matter what they perceive has happened, the truth is much more convoluted.

Stephanie and Jasmine were both well-written characters -- one of them was easy to love and the other was easy to hate.  The plot was a real roller coaster ride and held my interest from the first page to the last.  It's hard to believe that this is a debut novel for this author.  Based on this book, I can't wait to see what she writes in the future. 

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Susan Roberts grew up in Michigan but loves the laid-back life at her home in the Piedmont area of North Carolina where she is three hours from the beach to the east and the mountains in the west.  She reads almost anything but her favorite genres are Southern Fiction and Historical Fiction.   

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