Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
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?
Sometimes sequels can be a disappointment but not this one. It's written in a similar way as "Everyone in my family has killed someone" but different characters and settings give it a fresh feel.
Don't think of it as a "Whodunnit?" though. Although the narrator continuously breaks the 4th wall and gives out snippets of information along the way, lots of the details given in the denouement are not in the book.
Still an enjoyable read though.
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