Book: Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect

 Book: Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect

Author: Benjamin Stevenson

Pages: 336

This is my 154th read for the year

Here is what Amazon says about the book (because I am lazy today)

When the Australian Myster Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Dawin 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.  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 was a pretty good book.  I read the author's first book and enjoyed it, so when I found this at a used bookstore I picked it up and glad I did.  It isn't terrific writing, but clever enough.  I love how he starts his book with a lot of "rules" I agree with regarding mysteries. (like not keeping the reader in the dark for no reason).  It gets a little convoluted in the near end, but wraps up nicely.  It is a light little read and I am glad I picked it up.

Stars: 4