The ‘locked room’ mystery takes on a new setting in these thrillers: a train. Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express is the classic ‘locked room’ train mystery. These contemporary takes are just as good.
6:40 to Montreal
Agatha's husband bought her a first-class ticket on the famous six-hour train from Toronto to Montreal as a present - a one-day writing retreat so she could get some serious writing done on her book. The first-class car is the perfect place to be productive, with only a handful of other passengers, plenty of snacks and drinks, and beautiful views flying by outside the window. But when the train breaks down in the middle of the Canadian woods and one of Agatha's fellow passengers dies quietly in his seat, what started out as a pleasant day in transit with no distractions turns into a fight for survival against an unknown and unseen enemy. Will Agatha--or any of them--make it out alive?
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With a Vengeance
Five Found Dead
After a brutal year battling what should have been a terminal cancer diagnosis, mystery author Joe Penvale and his twin sister Meredith decide to celebrate this new beginning with a holiday on the famed Orient Express. Joining them in carriage 16 are a medically retired French police detective, a female British detective inspector, a travel blogger and her husband, two true crime podcasters who are seeking an interview with Joe, a widowed duchess, two little old ladies from Lower Slaughter in pursuit of a thief they know is aboard, and an obnoxious man in a green plaid suit. Joe and Meredith's elusive neighbor in 16G keeps to his cabin the first night after an early dinner-and the next morning his cabin is found soaked in blood, with no sign of his body anywhere. Also aboard is a virulent new strain of coronavirus, which leaves an entire carriage under quarantine and the train itself prohibited from disembarking in Venice. Busy dealing with this crisis, the train's CEO cobbles together an investigative committee comprising seven passengers with backgrounds in law or law enforcement to look for clues. But when the steward guarding the crime scene is killed, and then another who'd been sent to fetch the traveler's passports, the accusations and in-fighting begin and Joe and Meredith begin snooping about on their own, risking their newly reclaimed lives in a desperate attempt to stop a killer before they strike again.
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