Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick

The provided text, excerpts from the novel "Death on Tour" by Janice Hamrick, offers a first-person narrative chronicling a tourist's experience on an Egyptian tour that quickly turns into a murder mystery. The trip is immediately complicated when a fellow traveler, Millie Owens, is found dead, an event the narrator and her blunt friend, Kyla, witness, setting a darkly humorous tone for the group's escalating troubles. As the tour progresses through sites like the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings, a second, seemingly related murder occurs, prompting the narrator to increasingly suspect her attractive but mysterious traveling companion, Alan Stratton, who is later revealed to be the owner of the tour company investigating the incidents. The narrative culminates in the shocking revelation that the "ditzy duo" of Fiona and Flora are diamond smugglers and the killers of two people, forcing the narrator to help save Alan from their plot, ultimately leading to the resolution of the murders and her own romantic