A CHRISTMAS MYSTERY FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE, FOR FANS OF JANICE HALLETT AND PETER SWANSON'S THE CHRISTMAS GUEST***

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.

THE HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO 2022'S MOST ORIGINAL MURDER MYSTERY, EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE*

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 (...