Review: The Business Trip

The Business Trip by Jessie Garcia
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

If you have Kindle Unlimited right now, this book is free to borrow.

Wow! What a debut! If you like twisty plots and red herrings with unbelievably intricate endings, this book is for you!

As they say, Karma can be a *itch. For the book's first half, you become enmeshed in Jasmine's and Stephanies lives. One is leaving her abusive boyfriend, and the other is getting ready to go to a news broadcasters conference. They meet on a plane, and this is the beginning of things going in a much different direction.

I have to admit I really did not like Jasmines' idea that the whole world owes her. She was a character that was pathetic one minute and hateful the next.

I never once thought the book would end the way it did, and I am so glad; otherwise, I don't think I would have been so enthusiastic, nor would I have enjoyed it so much.

Geez, this author can really write---both plot and believable characters.

I highly recommend this book; if you are in a book club, this will be perfect.

I am going to be buying my own copy, and it will be going on my comfort-read bookshelf!

*ARC supplied by the publisher St. Martin's Press/ Macmillan Publishers, the author, and NetGalley.

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SYNOPSIS: "THE BUSINESS TRIP is the gripping, page-turning debut from author Jessie Garcia.

Stephanie and Jasmine have nothing and everything in common. The two women don’t know each other but are on the same plane. Stephanie is on a business trip and Jasmine is fleeing an abusive relationship. After a few days, they text their friends the same exact messages about the same man—the messages becoming stranger and more erratic.

And then the two women vanish. The texts go silent, the red flags go up, and the panic sets in. When Stephanie and Jasmine are each declared missing and in danger, it begs the Who is Trent McCarthy? What did he do to these women— or what did they do to him?

Twist upon twist, layer upon layer, where nothing is as it seems, The Business Trip takes you on a descent into the depths of a mastermind manipulator. But who is playing who?"