Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret - (Ernest Cunningham Mysteries) by Benjamin Stevenson (Hardcover)

About the Book

"My name's Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. I'd hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it easy over the holidays. I was wrong. So here I am, backstage at the show of world-famous magician Rylan Blaze, whose benefactor has just been murdered. My suspects are all professional tricksters: masters of the art of misdirection. ... My clues are even more abstract: A suspect covered in blood, without a 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"--

Book Synopsis

Benjamin Stevenson returns with a Christmas addition to his bestselling, "deviously good fun" (Nita Prose), Ernest Cunningham mysteries. Unwrap all the Christmas staples: presents, family, an impossible murder or two, and a deadly advent calendar of clues. If Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club kissed under the mistletoe.

My name's Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. I'd hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it easy over the holidays. I was wrong.

So here I am, backstage at the show of world-famous magician Rylan Blaze, whose benefactor has just been murdered. My suspects are all professional tricksters: masters of the art of misdirection.

THE MAGICIAN

THE ASSISTANT

THE EXECUTIVE

THE HYPNOTIST

THE IDENTICAL TWIN

THE COUNSELLOR

THE TECH

My clues are even more abstract: A suspect covered in blood, without a 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.

If I can see through the illusions, I know I can solve it.

After all, a good murder is just like a magic trick, isn't it?

Review Quotes

"Clever Christmas fun...a perfect stocking stuffer." -- Anniston Star

"The Cunningham meta-mysteries are absolutely delightful." -- Booklist

"Sparkling with wit and witticisms about the world of writers and writing, Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect offers a tip of the hat to the great Agatha Christie novel while at the same time being a modern reinvention of it. Leave it to Stevenson to make high-jinx and murder deviously good fun." -- Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid and The Mystery Guest

"Fun and diverting, with a plethora of red herrings." -- New York Times Book Review on Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

"Another clever spoof of the mystery genre." -- Washington Post on Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

"Witty...Readers should find the ride on the Ghan well worth the price of the ticket." -- Wall Street Journal on Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

"An outstanding and exceptional mystery from start to finish . . . everything fans would hope for. It's a spectacular sequel, every twist and turn as fun and fiendish as the first novel." -- Jane Harper on Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect