Welcome to Case Closed. You're listening to Every Time I Go on Vacation Someone Dies by Catherine Mack, narrated by Elizabeth Evans. Let's pick up where we left off last time.

Chapter 14. It's Murder on the Med.

Sorrento

We finish the tour of Pompeii without any further incident, and then we say goodbye to the bookface ladies.

They climb back into the bus to be taken to their resort, while we're sent to our hotel in private cars.

Kathy, who's been keeping her distance all day, gives Isabella a hard stare when she climbs into a car with Connor.

Whether it's because she thinks she deserves a luxury ride or because she wants to cozy up to Connor, I'm not sure.

Like most of the books fans, she thinks the sun shines out of Connor's butt, although she's always been more fixated on me than him.

If that's about to change, I'm not going to stop it. I get into a car with Harper, hoping that the

ice has thawed between us. But it hasn't. It's as cold as the air

conditioning, and I don't know what to do. Harper, will you please talk to me? She glances at me.

What were you talking to Allison about? I was apologizing. You were?

No need to sound so surprised.

The car moves off the highway and onto a two-lane road that looks like it's headed toward the Med.

In a moment, the car takes a sharp turn, and now we're driving along the edge of a cliff

that goes down at least a thousand feet into rocks and crashing water.

Wow, I say, that's beautiful. But it's also kind of terrifying. We're both transfixed. We're driving

toward a town built into the cliff. The buildings are colorful, and the streets are

tiered, surrounded by lemon trees. The water below

is that blue you only seem to see in photographs, but here it is, real. It is, Harper says.

We're lucky. I am. I'm surprised to hear you say it.

I don't say it enough.

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