Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect: A Novel

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 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 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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Published Jan 30, 2024

336 pages

Average rating: 7.1

127 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

Pages & Paws
Apr 17, 2026
9/10 stars
Better than the first book!
@MissLitLife
Jul 30, 2024
7/10 stars
This was a fun and quirky read though I will admit that for me it really "took off" after page 175 - then it was unputdownable and all the predictions I had made were either validated or later dismissed by surprising twists and reveals! I enjoyed the setting and dry humour as well as the characters' bickering and bantering and it was also great fun reading this whilst onboard two trains - one to Bratislava and subsequently to Budapest! Overall comical and enjoyable - :)
Rhi.Elo
Mar 23, 2026
9/10 stars
Really enjoy all of the books so far in this series. Enjoy the perspective it is written in and the humour and depth to some of the stories
BrandeeD
Dec 10, 2025
8/10 stars
4.5 stars!! A great sequel and definitely worth the read! Again, didn't see that plot twist coming.
Michalmarie123
Oct 19, 2025
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