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Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect

Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone

Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret

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Lots to enjoy. Light and fun . . . the sort of thing to pop in the stocking of your fellow mystery fan on Christmas Day

Hilariously comic, devilishly ingenious and wonderfully tongue in cheek...delectable stuff and just the right novella-length, for a holiday treat

I loved this fun, Christmas-themed mystery, that's divided into 24 chapters - with 24 clues - making it a great Advent read

An ingenious and hilarious meta-murder mystery

An outstanding and exceptional mystery from start to finish

As fresh and zingy as a salted lime. It's Knives Out meets Richard Osman. Or Dexter by way of Agatha Christie. Or Schitt's Creek with a body count. It's also the most luxuriantly enjoyable novel I've read in years

Clever, satisfying, impossible to put down and gloriously inventive. It's fantastic

This crackles on the page. Such an original voice

This book had me hooked from the first chapter. Deliciously funny, dark and intriguing

This was such a clever, compelling read. It's a must for anyone who loves the rules of crime fiction, but it still packs plenty of twists. It had me laughing and turning the pages in equal measure. Bravo Mr Stevenson!

The best thing I've read in ages. I absolutely loved it. Whip-smart, twisted, funny, and constructed with the pinpoint precision of a bloodthirsty watchmaker

Fun and diverting, with a plethora of red herrings

Sparkling with wit and witticisms...Leave it to Stevenson to make high-jinx and murder deviously good fun

There are quite a few differences between an Australian Christmas and the stereotypical Northern Hemisphere fare. 
 
For one, we don’t get snow. And, in my specific experience, there tend to be more murders. 
Which brings us here. 
 
After having solved two relatively high-profile murders, my third case begins when a body drops dead at my feet during a Christmas pageant. 
 
I’m writing this all out on Christmas Eve, and honestly, this whole thing’s an advent calendar. 23 clues and a killer, because the best chocolate’s always behind door number 24. 
 
But getting there won’t be easy. Because this Christmas, everyone has a motive. So it’s not a matter of who wanted the victim dead – but who got there first…

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My name is Ernest Cunningham. 
 
I’m not a detective. I just happen to have a knack for what makes mysteries – and murderers – tick. I’d hoped, this Christmas, that any killers out there might be willing to take a break for the holidays. 
 
I was wrong. 
 
So here I am, backstage at the Christmas show of world-famous magician Rylan Blaze, whose benefactor has just been murdered. From the magician’s assistant to the hypnotist, my suspects are all professional tricksters. Masters in the art of misdirection. 
 
My clues are even more of a mystery: 
 
A suspect covered in blood, with no memory of how it got there. 
A murder committed without setting foot inside the room where it happens. 
And an advent calendar. Because, you know. It’s Christmas. 
 
Solving the murder is the only gift I want this year. But can I catch a killer, and make it home for Christmas alive? 
 
 'Fun and diverting, with a plethora of red herrings' New York Times 
 
 Praise for Benjamin Stevenson'Leave it to Stevenson to make high-jinx and murder deviously good fun' Nita Prose'This crackles on the page. Such an original voice' Jane Fallon'It's Knives Out meets Richard Osman' A.J. Finn'Deliciously dark, funny and intriguing' Alex Pavesi 
 
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Lots to enjoy. Light and fun . . . the sort of thing to pop in the stocking of your fellow mystery fan on Christmas Day

Hilariously comic, devilishly ingenious and wonderfully tongue in cheek...delectable stuff and just the right novella-length, for a holiday treat

I loved this fun, Christmas-themed mystery, that's divided into 24 chapters - with 24 clues - making it a great Advent read

Praise for Benjamin Stevenson

An ingenious and hilarious meta-murder mystery

An outstanding and exceptional mystery from start to finish

**As fresh and zingy as a salted lime. It's Knives Out meets Richard Osman**. Or Dexter by way of Agatha Christie. Or Schitt's Creek with a body count. It's also the most luxuriantly enjoyable novel I've read in years

Clever, satisfying, impossible to put down and gloriously inventive. It's fantastic

This crackles on the page. Such an original voice

This book had me hooked from the first chapter. Deliciously funny, dark and intriguing

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