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Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect

By: Benjamin Stevenson
Narrated by: Barton Welch, Megan Smart
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How do you catch a killer, when all your suspects know how to get away with murder?

THE HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO 2022'S MOST ORIGINAL MURDER MYSTERY, EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE

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, six authors quickly turn into five detectives. Together, we should know how to solve a crime.

Or commit one...

Praise for Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone

'The best thing I've read in ages' STUART MACBRIDE
'I absolutely LOVED it. Engaging, entertaining and charming' MARIAN KEYES
'Clever, unexpected, and not to be missed' KARIN SLAUGHTER

©2024 Benjamin Stevenson (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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Critic reviews

Brilliant, great fun. Takes the scenario of Murder on the Orient Express and plays it for laughs. A more accomplished performance [than] Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Sparkling with wit and witticisms about the world of writers and writing, Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect offers a tip of the hat to the great Agatha Christie novel while at the same time being a modern reinvention of it. Leave it to Stevenson to make high-jinx and murder deviously good fun (Nita Prose)
Fun and diverting, with a plethora of red herrings
Clever, satisfying, impossible to put down and gloriously inventive. It's fantastic. Books like this are why we love reading (Stuart Turton)
An outstanding and exceptional mystery from start to finish...everything fans would hope for (Jane Harper)
Tricksy riffs on Golden Age mysteries seem to be in vogue, but no one does them with such gleeful elan as Stevenson...Stevenson's background as a literary agent doubtless helped him fashion this fiendishly plotted Murder On The Orient Express update
This crackles on the page. Such an original voice (Jane Fallon)
Laugh-out loud, irreverent, madly ingenious, full of twists and an avalanche of red herrings and wonderful characters let loose in a setting obviously inspired by both Agatha Christie and, with a nod to John Dickson Carr and others, a locked train mystery to boot. Stevenson succeeds magnificently in bringing Golden Age tropes to glorious life but also shows a deep affection for the rules and traditions of the genre, and his unique blend of satire, thrills, and glittering characterisation rings all the bells and more. A sheer delight and if there is any justice, a most-deserving multi future award winner
Benjamin Stevenson is rather like the illusionist Derren Brown, who deconstructs others’ magic tricks only to pull off brilliant ones of his own
Praise for Benjamin Stevenson (:)
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I was so pleased when I saw this author was due to release a new book. His writing style of this and the previous EIMFIAM is different to most classic 'Who dun its' and after listening to a lot of Harlen Coben and Anthony Horowitz recently I had to get my brain into gear for fear I was going to miss a clue even when they are often flagged as clues 😁.

This is definatley not worthy of the poor 1 star that Ernest got and the narration was great.

A 21st Century 'Who Dun it'.

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This book was excellent, possibly better than the first.

The only blip was the narration, mostly it was fine but the attempt at Scottish and Irish accents were painful. To all non-Scottish or Irish narrators, you can’t do the accents, stop trying.

Excellent story, poor narration

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Flashes of wit but a bit of a trawl. Also, trigger warning, the worst attempt at a Scottish accent I've ever heard. It's excruciating. Seriously, until forced into recognising it as Scottish by context, I thought it was dodgy eastern European. Fingers crossed from then on that that character would be murdered. He's a likeable narrator.

Not a compelling listen

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Loved it! Such a fun read! Great mystery, lots of self distance and humour. More!!!

Same excellent humour and mystery from book 1

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Excellent book. The narration as well as the story. So good, with lots of twists. Can’t wait for the next one!

Didn’t want it to end

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