The MURDER MYSTERY BOOK CLUB should have known better than to hold a Hen's Party on a luxury passenger train. It's not like trains and murder don't mix...
When bride-to-be Alicia Finlay sees a body drop off the Indian Pacific in the dead of night, even her beloved Book Club think her mind is up to its usual tricks. After all, they've brought along not one but EIGHT iconic train mysteries to read while on an iconic train?in this case, a real-life locomotive that crosses Australia's wide brown girth.
Surely Alicia's mixing fact and fiction? Or perhaps they can blame it on all that celebratory champagne...
Soon after, however, a first-class passenger is reported missing and the Book Club quickly sober up. The family of "Wheat Baron" Clay Dartmoor insist he got off willingly at a remote mining town, but Alicia's convinced Clay was pushed long before then, and his shifty family aren't the only suspects.
With a cast of colourful passengers and crew to choose from, the amateur sleuths have just two days to work out whodunnit before they reach Perth and the professionals jump aboard.
Grab your Akubra hat, book your cosy berth and snuggle in, folks, for the Book Club's most rollicking adventure yet. It's a locked-door, closed-circle thriller that offers twists, adventure, love and laughs while whisking you across the stunning red heart of Australia.
The seventh instalment in the best-selling cosy mystery series is one for true train(mystery)spotters. Have you read all the train mysteries on the Book Club's list? And can you connect the dots before they reach Perth?
NB: This series was previously titled The Agatha Christie Book Club and follows BRITISH English spelling and usage, and contains some Australian slang. Clean read: no graphic violence, sex, or strong language. Genre: cozy mystery, humour, amateur sleuths.
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Christina (C.A.) Larmer tried writing a romance at the age of 13 but pretty soon she'd slaughtered the hero and planted it on the heroine. It was the beginning of a beautiful love affair that has now resulted in four crime series, including the Murder Mystery Book Club, the Sleuths of Last Resort, the Ghostwriter mysteries, the Posthumous Mystery series, a domestic suspense novel, and a stand-alone mystery masquerading as a family saga (she's fooling nobody).
Born and bred in Papua New Guinea, Christina has lived and worked around the world from New York and Los Angeles to London and Sydney. A journalist, editor, teacher and mentor, she now runs an indie publishing business from the east coast of Australia, where she lives with her musician husband, two sons, a devilish 'Bluey' and countless koalas and snakes, none of which come close to the villains in her books. Well, maybe just the Bluey...
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