EVERYONE ON THIS TRAIN IS A SUSPECT by Benjamin Stevenson (Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone) takes place while several writers, including narrator Ernest
Cunningham, travel by train (called the Ghan) from
Darwin to Adelaide, Australia. With varied expertise and styles (literary,
legal, forensic, thriller), they form a panel discussing mystery writing for
several devoted fans. It is a luxurious adventure until one of them is killed
and the others transform into “wannabe detectives.” The writing is often humorous:
“besides, there are too many clues in this chapter to skip over even the
seemingly innocuous dialogue.” And Stevenson succeeds in maintaining suspense,
once again alerting readers to some mystery writing rules (including a second
death) and managing to use the killer’s name, as promised, exactly 106 times. EVERYONE
ON THIS TRAIN IS A SUSPECT was a LibraryReads Selection in January and received starred reviews from Kirkus (“punctuated by snarky
dialogue, murder, and a zillion inventive misdirections”) and Publishers
Weekly (“brilliant and creative”). Enjoy this
puzzling whodunit; after all, “a book isn’t a book until it’s read.”
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Everyone on this Train is a Suspect by Stevenson
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