Page 15 of Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies

“You know, BookFace? That thing they do on Instagram where they hold up the book to their face to match the image?”

The cover for When in Rome is half a woman’s face with the Roman skyline in silhouette behind it. The women’s T-shirts all have some variation of a woman holding the book to one side of their face so the face on the book makes up the other half.

BookFace. I get it.

“Why’s it on their T-shirts?”

“That’s how they got here. The contest? Please do not tell me you forgot the contest.”

“Of course not.”

Only I have. Because there’s no way in hell I’d agree to do a book tour with Connor and a bunch of fans. I love my fans, I do, but some of them are nuts.

Why else would they want to sleep with Connor and make “jokes” in endless emails to me about how they’re going to “take me out” so they have a chance with him?29

Oh! Maybe it’s a fan who’s trying to kill Connor?

Only, wait, that doesn’t work. It’s me they want to kill, not him.

“Remind me of the details again?” I say to Harper.

“They posted their BookFaces on Instagram, and twenty of them won an all-expenses-paid ticket to Rome.”

“Right, right.”

“There were twenty thousand entries.”

“Wow…” I clear my throat. “And the parts of the tour that are with me?”

“Today at the Colosseum and then the lunch tomorrow in Pompeii. Some stuff later.”

“The lunch.”

“There will be alcohol.”

“There better be. Any other surprises in store for me?”

She gives me a sideways grin. “Shoulda read the itinerary!”

INVITATION TO THE WHEN IN ROME TENTH ANNIVERSARY TOUR

Please join

ELEANOR DASH

CONNOR SMITH

GUY CHARLES

OLIVER FORREST

and the entire Vacation Mysteries Extended Universe

on this once-in-a-lifetime Italian vacation!

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