Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect

This clever locked-room mystery unfolds aboard a luxury train where six crime writers become entangled in a real-life murder investigation that tests their fictional expertise. When a fellow author turns up dead during a literary festival journey, every passenger becomes both detective and suspect in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. The novel brilliantly plays with golden age mystery conventions while delivering fresh twists that keep readers guessing until the final revelation. Stevenson masterfully constructs an intricate plot where professional rivalries and personal secrets fuel the tension as the train speeds toward its destination.

What sets this crime fiction apart is its self-aware narrative voice and the meta-commentary on mystery writing itself, as the authors-turned-detectives apply their own fictional techniques to a real crime. The closed-circle setting creates delicious claustrophobia where alliances shift faster than the desert scenery outside the windows. Readers who appreciate intelligent whodunits with layered characters and witty dialogue will find this impossible to put down. The satisfying conclusion proves that sometimes the most dangerous fiction isn't what gets written—but what gets lived.