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Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
- Narrated by: Barton Welch, Megan Smart
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Summary
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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...
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'Clever, satisfying, impossible to put down and gloriously inventive. It's fantastic.' (Stuart Turton)
'An outstanding and exceptional mystery from start to finish...everything fans would hope for.' (Jane Harper)
'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)
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- josh hunter
- 04-11-24
Another stellar performance with a story that doesn't match up
it's hard to pull the same trick twice. while the predecessor book "everyone in my family has killed someone" managed to weave the meta narrative of "being an author, writing a book on being an author" and "being a mystery novel" the sequel struggles to capture the same.
The book spends a lot of time being a sequel, discussing the downsides of being a sequel and ruminating on the fact it's a sequel. This is to frame the protagonists arc and is important to the story, but it still makes for a lackluster first act.
Characters, not as memorable as the first with each not getting their own time in the spotlight, the book felt like it had a rough start, a middle act that was too bloated and a final act that, while great, took too long to start and sidelined a lot of it's characters.
The overall whodunnit is well played out and interestingly paced, as a set, the mystery carries the story, but everything surrounding the mystery left me wanting.
None of this however is a slight to the absolutely fantastic performance by Barton Welch, who sells the "author writing their life, aware it's a book" fantastically.
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- Jill Rattray
- 15-10-24
Excellent story, poor narration
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.
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-05-24
Fun! As good as the first.
I like the fun style of the author interacting with the reader. Great narration again! Suggest to anyone who hasn’t read the first to do them in sequence to avoid any spoilers.
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- David Brock
- 15-04-24
Didn’t want it to end
Excellent book. The narration as well as the story. So good, with lots of twists. Can’t wait for the next one!
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- U. bruton
- 20-08-24
Same excellent humour and mystery from book 1
Loved it! Such a fun read! Great mystery, lots of self distance and humour. More!!!
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- Mrs L L Coates
- 26-07-24
you need to have read the first book
Not sure if i zoned out whilst listening to this book or just found it boring. The end was good but not sure it was worth the effort to get there. Still a good format and I like the way he narrates, just a bit obvious and boring. You do need to have read the first book to read this one but then this isn't as good as the first sadly.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-03-24
Great narrator, fun mystery
Although this author has a relaxed, humorous style which I love, his main character Ernest is beginning to annoy me! He’s a little too smug but Barton Welch’s superb narration saves the day and makes an otherwise irritating character likeable. This series lacks the cleverness and suspense of Stevenson’s other books but it’s an enjoyable listen.
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- kaytee
- 10-03-24
Great sequel!
Equally enchanting and mysterious I love the way these books are written a great who dunnit but with a different take in writing. The author is helpful and wants you to solve it! Loved it!
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- Twin Mum 👫
- 31-03-24
Sadly dsappointed. Not as good as EIMFHKS
Love Barton Welch as a narrator. His intonation and text interpretation is brilliant. Scottish accent made me chuckle but then I'm rubbish at accents, so I will let that slide!
Now, the story. I devoured EIMFHKS. I couldn't stop listening. This book I just couldn't get into. It was disjointed and just didn't flow. I couldn't follow it and it didn't make sense.
I absolutely love the writing style and it hasn't put me off reading other books by Benjamin Stevens, I was just really disappointed after pre-ordering EOTTIAS, it just didn't live up to my excited anticipation.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-03-24
Must-read for fans of the first
As a sequel skeptic I was quickly reminded of the strength of Stevensons’ character craft - the narrative voice is just as down to earth as in the first book, builds a satisfying web of clues, and still shocks you along the way. A master of playing with the format and subverting expectations in all the right places.
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