Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

Seven writers board a train. At the end of the line, five will leave it alive. One will be in cuffs.” Ernest Cunningham may be down a brother following the events of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, but he now has a fledgling career as a crime writer, and he returns to narrate another witty murder mystery. He’s attending the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society festival aboard a train making its way through the Australian desert when a passenger is murdered. (If you’re thinking about Murder on the Orient Express right now, you’re on the right—ahem—track.) And like the book title says…Once again, Stevenson doesn’t just play in the genre, he plays with the genre, and it’s another infectiously funny, ingenious, and breezily meta riff on the locked room mystery.