In Conversation with Benjamin Stevenson
Everyone on this Train is a Suspect
Tuesday 24 October 2023, 6:00–7:30pm
Australian National University
153 University Avenue
Canberra ACT 2600
Join us for a night of mystery and intrigue with Benjamin Stevenson who will be in conversation with Jack Heath on the eagerly awaited follow-up to his international bestseller 'Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone'- 'Everyone on this Train is a Suspect'.
About the Book
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
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, six authors quickly turn into five detectives. Together, we should know how to solve a crime. Or commit one. How can you find a killer when all the suspects know how to get away with murder?
'Clever, unexpected, and not to be missed.' Karin Slaughter
'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
About Benjamin Stevenson
Benjamin is an award-winning stand-up comedian and author. His first novel, Greenlight, was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction, and his second novel, Either Side of Midnight, was shortlisted for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Original Paperback. Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone, his third novel, was a huge bestseller and has so far been sold in twenty-seven territories around the world. It will soon be adapted into a major HBO TV series. It was shortlisted for the Dymocks Book of the Year 2022, ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year 2023 and BookPeople's Fiction Book of the Year 2023, as well as being named as one of The Sunday Times's best crime novels of 2022. Benjamin has sold out live shows from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival all the way to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and has appeared on ABC TV, Channel 10 and The Comedy Channel.
About Jack Heath
Jack Heath is the award-winning author of more than forty books for children and adults. He was born in Sydney in 1986 and has lived in Canberra since 1996. He wrote his first novel in high school and sold it to a publisher at age 18. In 2018 his first crime novel for adults, ‘Hangman’ was a smash-hit in Australia and has since been translated into nine languages. His 2021 book, ‘Kill Your Brother’ was shortlisted for best crime novel at the Ned Kelly Awards with the follow up ‘Kill Your Husbands’ due for release in November
This event is in association with Harry Hartog Bookshop. Books will be available for purchase on the evening in the Cultural Centre foyer. Pre-event book signings will be available from 5.30pm and again after the event.
