Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect By 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?