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Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
4.25

The author is a stand-up comedian, which means I had a much easier time forgiving genre tropes!! (I don't really like mystery novels, especially ones that take Occam's razor and throw it into the abyss for shock value! But at least this book/series is self-aware, in that it is a mystery novel that literally tells you what genre tropes it will and won't be following. Like, it specifically tells you the amount of times you will read the killer's name, and at what word counts the murders (plural!) will occur.)

Anyway, very silly! Written by a man, but one who is sorry about it. I read the first book a few years ago on a whim and when I remembered there was a second book I had to wait on the hold list for a good long time. Popular for a reason, I'd say! I think this is probably the only contemporary mystery series I like, though I am begrudgingly open to finding more 🧘🏼‍♀️