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Sometimes, Travel is Murder -- The Business Trip (thriller book review)

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Anyone who’s ever gone on a trip knows that traveling is HARD.   Whether trying to follow the rules and make it to the airport literally   hours   before your actual flight... worrying about whether or not your toiletries are “small enough” to please the TSA gods... or   knowing   you forgot something vitally essential back at home (be it turning a would-be flammable electrical thingy off, or packing the laptop you’re definitely gonna need)... the whole act of traveling is A LOT.   But one thing most of us rarely factor into that already-bonkers list of variables is... MURDER.   Jessie Garcia’s no-holds-barred debut,  The Business Trip , seems destined to add that concern to your list of OMG-what-ifs, though.     Jasmine is like plenty of women you may have met—or not, depending on how you spend your off-hours. She’s a middle-aged bartender in a low-brow tavern in Madison, Wisconsin. She lives with a boyfriend who... well, leans way more...