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Bezig met laden... Tutti su questo treno sono sospetti (editie 2024)door Benjamin Stevenson (Autore), Elena Cantoni (Traduttore)
Informatie over het werkEveryone on This Train Is a Suspect door Benjamin Stevenson
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I don't mind an author telling me that he's aware he's writing for readers, but in this book, it was done often, and often annoyingly. I gave in to the temptation to buy this book at retail price when I saw it in my local bookstore (99.9 percent of the books I buy are at used prices), and that was fun and impulsive, but I regret doing it because I won't read the book again. I liked his storytelling style; it really pulled me along; but there were two scenes that were ridiculously over the top. So ... don't regret reading it (though I do regret paying retail), and while I wasn't completely satisfied, I do find myself wanting to read the one before it - a title something like 'Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone.' But this time, I'll borrow it from the library! ( ) After the terrifying events the previous year, Ernest Cunningham has written a book and now he has been invited to take part in a Crime Writers Festival. The bonus is that it is a three-day luxury trip on The Ghan, a train from Darwin to Adelaide. Ernest boards hopefully but he finds his fellow authors quite unpleasant and there are obviously tensions. When a best-selling writer is murdered Ernest finds himself at the centre of a mystery again. This time Stevenson's focus turns to homage of 'Murder on the Orient Express' and it's great! The detection is suitable opaque, the plot nicely twisty and our anti-hero quite engaging. Essentially this is a book which updates Golden Age writing and plot construction with a modern and very humorous attitude. First sentence: Hi , It's a hard no on the prologue, I'm afraid. I know it's the done thing in crime novels, to hook the reader in and all that, but it just feels a bit cheap here. I know how to do it, of course, the scene you want me to write. Premise/plot: A handful of mystery writers board a train on their way to the Australian Mystery Writers' Festival. But not everyone who boards the train exits the train....still breathing. Hence, everyone on this train is a suspect. Ernest Cunningham is the main character "author" who wrote the book Everyone In My Family Killed Someone based on a horrific family reunion. He's working on a second novel, hopefully a book not based on his personal life, but events of the train are proving challenging. If he survives the trip, then a second book has conveniently unfolded right when he needs it. (Though is that a motive for crime???) Most all of the characters are new in this one--with the exception of his love interest. My thoughts: I absolutely loved Everyone In My Family Killed Someone. I thought Ernest Cunningham was a delightful narrator. I liked the gimmick of it, the premise of it. In theory, I like the premise of this one as well. In theory. I didn't quite love this one. I'm not sure if I just wasn't in the right mood for it, or, if the first book was just better. I still like the main character, and, sometimes with detective novels, each mystery has a little bit of hit or miss to it. Some you just enjoy more than others all the while loving the detective character at the center of the novel. To truly enjoy the intricate plotting, I should have paid better attention while listening to the audiobook. There are a LOT of characters to keep track of which was also more difficult on audio. Some segments are laugh-out-loud funny but, overall, the first book was more entertaining due to its novelty. Some of the conventions employed in this book about a mystery convention on a train were a little cringy but other readers might enjoy them. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Fiction.
Mystery.
Thriller.
HTML: From the bestselling author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, a fiendishly fun locked room (train) murder mystery that "offers a tip of the hat to the great Agatha Christie novel while at the same time being a modern reinvention of it" (Nita Prose) — perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Anthony Horowitz 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? .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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