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?
I have officially added "cross-country train ride" to my bucket list. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect seemed like a throwback to Agatha Christie. Ernest Cunningham is back. He seemed more selfish and clueless in this novel, but not in a jerk kind of way, more like a goofy labrador. I think he redeemed himself by the end of the book. And I would not be surprised to see Ernest Cunningham show up in another book.
Details:
- Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
- Publication Date: January 30, 2024
- Pages: 335
- Publisher: Mariner Books
- Buy it Here!
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