The Dead Girl in 2A: A Novel
This flight will take them somewhere they never expected to go
Jack Buchanan knows the woman sitting next to him on his business flight to Denver--he just can't figure out how he knows her. Clara Stowe isn't in Jake's line of work and didn't go to college with him. They have nearly nothing in common apart from a deep and shared certainty that they've met before. As their airplane conversation deepens, both struggle to figure out what circumstances could have possibly brought them together. Then, in a revelation that sends Jake reeling, Clara admits she's traveling to the Colorado mountains to kill herself, and she disappears into the crowded airport immediately after landing.
The Dead Girl in 2A is the story of what happens to Jake and Clara after they get off that plane, and the manipulative figure who has brought them together decades after they first met. Intensely creepy, beautifully written, and full of Carter Wilson's signature whom-can-you-trust paranoia, this is a psychological thriller unlike any you've read before.
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Jake, a struggling writer battling depression, boards a flight to Denver and finds himself seated next to Clara, a mysterious woman who claims she’s going to Colorado to kill herself. Jake becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about her cryptic life and death wish. His search takes him deep into her troubled past, revealing secrets and unexpected connections that tie them together. Jake is forced to confront his own demons while unraveling a mystery that might cost him everything.
Uhmmmmm I'm trying to think how to put this. This book was interesting. It was definitely strange and at times, confusing. I went into this book thinking it was going to be a story about someone who goes missing mid flight (which is a trope I looooove) and it ended up being something so freaking out there, that even for a fiction thriller, it felt really unrealistic. I didn't hate it, I didn't love it. I just below liked it. There are so many found out connections between the characters in this book I really struggled to keep track and follow the story. I did finish it but I was left very unsatisfied with the story.
I really loved Carter Wilson's book Tell Me What You Did, so I reallllllllly wanted to love this one too. It just didn't end up that way 🥲 While this book was a miss for me, it doesn't sway me away from reading his other books that are on my TBR.
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