Everyone on This Train is a Suspect – Book Review

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?

This is the sequel to Everyone in my family has killed someone. Here Ernest Cunningham is invited to attend the Australian Writer’s Festival aboard the train Ghan that will travel from Darwin to Adelaide. In the train are all bestselling mystery writers along with few other guests. However, on the way, one of the passengers dies which turn out to be a foul play or murder. Then a second passenger also gets murdered which means that there might be a murderer among the passengers.

This was kind of like Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express vibe in it. The first person getting killed wasn’t a fan of many passengers. In my opinion, I enjoyed this book than I enjoyed the first book. There was flow in the book and it was interesting to see who would be the actual murderer. Overall this was a good story–worth 3.5 stars.