Five Found Dead by Sulari Gentill

Five Found Dead is quite the mystery/thriller/whodunit with bodies which keep adding up and so many suspects your head will explode! On top of that we get to ride on the Orient Express…hmm…did someone else write a book about that train? Anyway, the story is unique, enjoyable and quite surprising!

Joe Penvale a writer and his sister Meredith a lawyer are twins. They have just boarded the famous train, the Orient Express. Joe who is a famous crime story author had recently completed treatment for cancer. Joe wants to begin a new novel, and Meredith just wants to relax because she was Joe’s caretaker during his cancer journey. Also, she wants to keep an eye on him to make sure he eats and drinks well with absolutely no libations!

Less than twenty-four hours later everything will change. Something has happened in Cabin 16G which is close to their cabin. There’s blood everywhere but shockingly no body! Both Joe and Meredith had seen the previous night a man enter the cabin. But now, he is missing.

As the passengers begin to congregate to swap stories as to what could have happened, they are hit with another emergency. Some of the passengers have tested positive for some illness and they must now be quarantined!

But lucky for them there seem to be a few criminal professionals on board, i.e. retired police, crime solvers and even a criminal podcast team who are friends of Joe’s. They are asked by the train manager if they would be able to try and figure out what happened. And just as they decide to go into the missing man’s cabin, they discover the steward who was guarding the room is dead!

As another person is discovered dead…and still no sign of the guest from the room, things begin to get even crazier when the train which is headed to Paris is told it must release the train which has the quarantined passengers if they want to get into the city! But if they do this what if the killer is living among them?

With everyone seeming to have alibis, Joe and Meredith race to discover who the killer could possibly be. What they all will discover is that deception and vengeance run deep; a masterful murder plan was created, and a mind-boggling conclusion which will knock your socks off! Five Found Dead will have you wanting to race to the end of the story and the bombshell ending!

Thank you #NetGalley #PoisenedPress #SulariGentill #FiveFoundDead for the advanced copy.