Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson

Cover of the book Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone was one of my favorite books last year, and I’m a sucker for a sequel. This one did not disappoint! 

What I liked best was the fact that it had a different feel than the first book but was still really good. Where the first felt just a smidge more like a thriller (blizzard conditions, no power, creepy isolated mountain retreat, etc.), this one felt slightly more like a cozy mystery but with more gore! 


I’m notoriously bad at guessing the culprit and did not in this one either, but it was a fun ride to work out the various mini-mysteries-within-the-mystery. Without adding spoilers, there is a really clever use of the plot device of having Ern provide the rules of writing a mystery novel towards the end, which turns those rules on its head. It’s all very meta and fun to have a book about writing a textbook mystery, then veer off course for a bit and poke fun of itself. 


Thank you to NetGalley and Mariner Books for the opportunity to read this in exchange for my honest feedback. All opinions are my own. 


4.25 stars out of 5, rounded down to 4 stars.


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