Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)
Benjamin Stevenson
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?
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0 0Ernest is back with another issue on his hands - taking the leap and writing a fiction murder mystery - and hoping to make an impression on his fellow writers while aboard the Ghan for the Australian Mystery Writers' Festival. Trouble obviously boards with them and it's up to our earnest, budding detective to solve the case.
While it took me a bit to get into the sequel to Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, once I did, it had me absolutely hooked. Filled with the same humor, sarcasm, and fourth wall breaks that made me love it's predecessor, Everyone on This Train is a Suspect made me laugh, gasp, and even cry. Twists and reveals that I truly wasn't expecting and a writing style that keeps you hooked even after the Grand Reveal.
<spoiler>But legacy isn't a stamp left by the people with ink. It's not about leaving your fingerprints, it's about having fingerprints left on you. In the case of books, the legacy isn't created by writing it, it's created by the people who pick it up, who expand and enrich and enlighten your words with how they reinterpret, remember and relive them. It's passion, it's tears...</spoiler> A book isn't a book until it's read.
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