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Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

by Benjamin Stevenson Publisher: MARINER BOOKS

A murder mystery among crime writers

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A murder mystery among crime writers

A crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the train linking Darwin and Adelaide, becomes a closed-circle murder investigation when one of the participating authors is killed. Ernest Cunningham, hoping for material for his next book, is among the remaining writers who take on the case. Their professional familiarity with mysteries cuts both ways: they know how investigations work, but also how a culprit might evade them. The setup brings the conventions of the locked-room puzzle into a setting where every suspect understands the craft of crime fiction.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers who enjoy closed-circle and locked-room murder mysteries.
  • For mystery fans interested in amateur investigators and a group of suspects with crime-writing expertise.
  • For readers seeking a mystery set aboard a train in Australia.

Themes

Crime fiction and its conventionsMurder investigationExpertise and suspicionClosed-circle mystery

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Book overview

From the bestselling author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, a fiendishly fun locked room (train) murder mystery in the spirit of Murder on theOrient Express. With Ernest Cunningham, "Stevenson has brought a modern-day Poirot to the mystery scene"(Michelle Carpenter).

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, the remaining authors quickly turn into five detectives. Together, we should know how to solve a crime.

Of course, we should also know how to commit one.

How can you find a killer when all the suspects know how to get away with murder?

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