Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect: A Locked Room Murder Mystery Aboard a Train (The Ernest Cunningham Mysteries, 2)
From the bestselling author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, a fiendishly fun and witty locked room (train) murder mystery in the spirt of Murder on the Orient 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 whodunnit. 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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Community Reviews
I think this was a solid 3.5 stars.
I hadn't read the first book, but that didn't matter. It gets talked about a lot. It felt like too many times, but they are in this trip because of the book, and it's Ernest's main defining trait, so I don't know.
The structure of the book was interesting. It was like a mystery book for beginners, using fourth wall breaks to point out clues and rules of a mystery. I thought it did a good job of making the information gathered clear so that you could have a good chance at deducing the killer, without making it too obvious (although some of the potential motives were a bit flimsy). However, the blurb was a bit misleading. It sounded to me like the authors were going to all be investigating and possibly come together as a team with one of them potentially being a saboteur. That's not what happened.
Overall, it was a pretty quick read with a light tone. Good if you like mysteries but like to have someone helping you put the pieces together.
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