Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret: A Festive Mystery

Name: Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret: A Festive Mystery
Rating: 4.157894611358643 (19 reviews)

Benjamin Stevenson

Oct 2024 · The Ernest Cunningham Mysteries Book 3 · Sold by HarperCollins

19 reviews

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Benjamin Stevenson returns with a Christmas addition to his bestselling, “deviously good fun” (Nita Prose), Ernest Cunningham mysteries. Unwrap all the Christmas staples: presents, family, an impossible murder or two, and a deadly advent calendar of clues. If Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club kissed under the mistletoe.

My name’s Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. I’d hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it easy over the holidays. I was wrong.

So here I am, backstage at the show of world-famous magician Rylan Blaze, whose benefactor has just been murdered. My suspects are all professional tricksters: masters of the art of misdirection.

THE MAGICIAN

THE ASSISTANT

THE EXECUTIVE

THE HYPNOTIST

THE IDENTICAL TWIN

THE COUNSELLOR

THE TECH

My clues are even more abstract: 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.

If I can see through the illusions, I know I can solve it.

After all, a good murder is just like a magic trick, isn’t it?

A cozy holiday read
Perfect for fans of winter mysteries
A delightful Christmas gift

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19 reviews

Irene Henry

March 31, 2025

Felt like a cash grab. I absolutely loved the first 2 books but this one wasn't great. Everything happened bam, bam, bam as though the author had had a board full of cool ideas and just smashed it together into a book without adding in between bits and back story. The main character stumbled onto all the clues and hints rather luckily. It seemed like the author even went against the rules of writing a mystery novel that he outlined in his first book.

Monique Larson

May 8, 2025

What a romp! This entire series is phenomenal, filled to the brim with humour, mystery, and brain teasers. I can't wait for Ernest to return!

SubTwo Test

December 22, 2024

Very good book

About the author

Benjamin Stevenson is an award-winning stand-up comedian and the USA Today bestselling author of the globally popular Ernest Cunningham Mysteries, including Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, which is currently being adapted into a major television series, and Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect. His most recent mystery is Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief. His books have sold two million copies in twenty-nine territories and have been nominated for nine book-of-the-year awards.

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