Everyone on This Train is a Suspect, by Benjamin Stevenson

Everyone on This Train is a Suspect continues the main character and premise of Stevenson’s last novel, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone. In that book, the hapless Ernest Cunningham, who has never written a mystery novel but has written a series of how-to books instructing other writers on how to construct mysteries, finds himself in the midst of a series of gruesome deaths during a family reunion in a remote ski resort. Having lived through and solved that mystery and written about it in a best-selling book, Ernest is now invited to an exclusive event for mystery writers and fans, held aboard a luxury train crossing Australia from north to south. You won’t be surprised to learn that one of the writers is murdered, or that Ernest tries to solve the mystery and make it the basis for his next book, nor that he repeatedly breaks the fourth wall and discusses with the reader how these (allegedly) real-life events are following the rules of good mystery writing. You won’t be surprised by any of that, but if you liked the first book, you’ll enjoy this journey too.