Murder on the Christmas Express
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4.2 • 5 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
"Strong prose and a bevy of plausible suspects keep things intriguing. Readers willing to embrace this Christmas story’s jagged edges are in for a ripping mystery."— Publishers Weekly
All aboard, but beware! Passengers who sleep on this train may never wake up.
In the early hours of Christmas Eve, the sleeper train from London to the Highlands derails, along with the festive plans of its travelers. With the train buried in snow in the middle of nowhere, the passengers have only each other, and not all of them will reach their holiday celebrations.
As a killer tries to pick passengers off one by one, former Met Detective Roz Parker can’t resist one last investigation, but murder in a locked room is a formidable puzzle for even the most seasoned investigator. As accusations begin to fly, the group of travelers fractures and unexpected alliances form. Can Roz find the culprit before anyone else is lost?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
For her surprisingly dark follow-up to 2021's The Christmas Murder Game, Benedict tears a leaf out of the Agatha Christie playbook and sets her tale on a posh locomotive full of suspicious Brits. The passengers aboard the sleeper train from London to Edinburgh for the Christmas holiday get a rude awakening when they derail in a remote, snowy section of the Scottish Highlands. Among the marooned are Roz Parker, a recently retired Metropolitan Police Detective who's on her way to visit her pregnant daughter; Mary, a self-described "crone" who's traveling with her doting son, Tony; Grant, a reality TV star; Meg, a social media influencer; and a team of college students preparing to audition for a popular quiz show. Shortly after the derailment, Meg is murdered, and Roz takes up the role of investigator, determined to ferret out the culprit before more innocent travelers die. While Benedict sticks to frothy Christie pastiche for a while, sprinkling the narrative with pub games and quizzes, cozy fans should be warned that the investigation takes a somber turn, introducing weightier-than-average themes of sexual assault into the mix. Still, strong prose and a bevy of plausible suspects keep things intriguing. Readers willing to embrace this Christmas story's jagged edges are in for a ripping mystery.
