Five Found Dead
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
From the bestselling author of The Mystery Writer and award-winning Rowland Sinclair series.
When Meredith Penvale and her writer brother, Joe, step aboard the iconic Orient Express, they're embarking on a journey steeped in both luxury and mystery. The train, a literary legend, is a bucket-list destination for detectives and writers alike. But as the train winds through the Italian Alps, a sinister undercurrent begins to emerge.
A virus has infiltrated the train in Paris, trapping its passengers and cutting them off from the world. Then, a passenger vanishes, leaving their cabin a bloody crime scene. Suddenly, the idyllic journey turns deadly. Joe and Meredith find themselves trapped with a motley crew of detectives, each with their own secrets and agendas.
As the body count rises and the train speeds towards its destination, the siblings must unravel the mystery before they become the killer's next victim ...
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APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Australian writer Sulari Gentill has a real knack for playing with the well-worn tropes of mystery novels, as proven in hits like 2022’s The Woman in the Library and 2024’s The Mystery Writer. That skill is on full display once again in Five Found Dead, in which crime author Joe Penvale embarks upon a journey on the Orient Express with his twin sister, Meredith. Looking for some passing inspiration in the iconic mobile setting once immortalised by Agatha Christie, Joe instead learns about a murder in the adjacent cabin. And it’s not the last, as promised by the book’s cheeky title. Gentill relishes the locked-room possibilities of the train, while once again showing off her intimate knowledge of whodunit conventions. It’s not just murder that animates this twisty plot, but the balancing act that is fiction writing. The Mystery Writer narrator Katherine Littrell returns to tell this story with an unwavering sense of urgency.
