Book: Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
Author: Benjamin Stevenson
Pages: 192
This is my 230th read for the year
What Amazon Says:
My name's Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of freading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. I'd hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it easy over the holidays. I was wrong. So here I am, backstage at the show of world-famous magician Rylan Blaze, whose benefactor has just been murdered. My suspects are all professional tricksters: masters of the art of misdirection. The magician, the assistant, the executive, the hypnotist, the identical twin, the counselor, the tech. My clues are even more abstract: a suspect covered in blood, without a memory of how it got there. A murder committed without setting foot inside the room where it happens. And an advent calendar. Because, you know, it's Christmas. It I can see through the illusions, i know I can solve it. After all, a good murder is just like a magic trick, isn't it?
This was a good book. This is the third installment in the Ernest Cunningham series, and it did not disappoint. I liked the characters, and even though it was a quick read, there was a lot of content in those pages. The mystery is well developed. I did figure it out pretty early on who it was, but it didn't take away from the story. These books are humorous, and I like the writting style - that Ernest is the writer of this book and he is telling us the story of the murder. Very clever.
Stars: 4.5
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