Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect
‘Brilliant’ The Times, Crime Book of the Month
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4.2 • 6 Ratings
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Publisher Description
***THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH, FROM THE AUTHOR OF INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE***
'Brilliant, great fun. Takes the scenario of Murder on the Orient Express and plays it for laughs' THE TIMES, CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH
'Clever, satisfying, impossible to put down and gloriously inventive. It's fantastic' STUART TURTON
SIX WRITERS. FIVE DETECTIVES. FOUR DAYS. THREE WEAPONS. TWO MURDERS. ONE TRAIN . . .
When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn't pan out.
The program is a who's who of crime writing royalty:
the debut writer (me!)
the forensic science writer
the blockbuster writer
the legal thriller writer
the literary writer
the psychological suspense writer.
But when one of us is murdered, six authors quickly turn into five detectives. Together, we should know how to solve a crime.
Or commit one . . .
But how do you catch a killer, when all your suspects know how to get away with murder?
Praise for Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect
'Sparkling with wit...Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect offers a tip of the hat to the great Agatha Christie novel while at the same time being a modern reinvention of it. Leave it to Stevenson to make high-jinx and murder deviously good fun' NITA PROSE
'An outstanding and exceptional mystery from start to finish...everything fans would hope for' JANE HARPER
Why readers LOVE Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect
'A perfect choice for anyone who enjoys witty thrillers' 5***** reader review
'I cannot recommend it more highly' 5***** reader review
'Absolutely wonderful - a must read for crime writing fans' 5***** reader review
'Amusing, engaging and impressive' 5***** reader review
'Will hook you in, keep you engaged and will make you want to read MORE!' 5***** reader review
'You will be in for twists and turns that will leave you guessing until the very end. I didn't have a clue whodunnit!' 5***** reader review
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Stevenson's brilliant and creative second closed-circle mystery featuring author Ernest Cunningham (after Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone) toys with golden age mystery tropes while delivering its own hugely satisfying whodunit. Cunningham's published account of the murders detailed in the previous book has netted him an invitation to the 50th Australian Mystery Writers' Festival. He's been asked, along with five much-better-known authors, to be a panelist aboard the Ghan, a luxury train whose route bisects the Australian desert. Soon after the journey starts, one of the writers turns up dead, and each of the train's other panelists—including Cunningham himself—becomes both suspect and sleuth. As the investigation unfolds, Stevenson plays scrupulously fair: as in the previous book, Cunningham addresses readers directly, promising "to be that rarity in modern crime novels: a reliable narrator." Even before the first murder, he reveals that a comma will be a crucial clue, and that there will be more than one victim. Dashes of humor (while introducing his fellow panelists, Cunningham pokes wicked fun at the publishing industry) light the way as Stevenson charges toward the deliciously clever final reveal. This is another triumph from a gifted genre specialist.
Customer Reviews
Brilliant
I really liked this book almost as much as I liked the first of the Ernest Cunningham series. It felt like there were twists at every turn and when everything was pieced together it made so much sense and it wasn’t at all what I had expected.