Title: Everyone on this train is a suspect

Author: Benjamin Stevenson

Source: NetGalley

Summary:

Ernest Cunningham is invited to the Australian’s Mystery Writers’ Society, and it’s aboard a train named Ghan. The train is quite famous one, and travels between Darwin and Adelaide.

But, things did not go as planned, and someone gets killed in the train. So, in the train we have five authors who have the skills to both solve the murder or cleverly hide in the plain sight.

Review:

Once this book was approved, I immediately started reading it. Once a few pages in (somewhere between prologue or not prologue), I felt urge to read the first book by the author. The writing from the first page just pulled me in to the book.

It doesn’t matter if you are not mystery reader, read this book for it sheer witty writing. Ernest Cunningham promises you a fair play, and he delivers it.

“I am, you may have realised, a bit chattier than your usual detective in these books. That’s because I’m not going to hide anything from you. This is a fair-play mystery, after all.“

Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect . Kindle Edition.

Cunningham plays fair right from the start. As a reader, you have the full scope to solve the mystery along with him. What I really like about this lead is that he is charming, clever, witty and flawed at the same time. Quite like the previous book, this one also has a small pool o f characters, and most of them are introduced in the beginning of the book. The book includes map which gives reader idea about the train journey, and the inside of the train as well. Every single page comes up with something new, and you can visualise everything happening right in front of you.

The ending of the book comes as surprise, which doubles up when you get two epilogues at the end. The book will make you laugh, want more of it, and at the same time keeps you intrigued by the mystery.

As a reader, there is some apprehension when it comes to sequel, Ernest Cunningham has surpassed all expectations in the second book. The dialogues are such that you can actually hear them inside your head.

The book gives absolute vibes of Golden Age mystery books, and is perfect for fans of Christie or Doyle.

Thank you, NetGalley and Michael Joseph, Penguin Random House, for the copy of the ebook.

Rating: 5 out of 5.

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