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'Benjamin Stevenson is an award-winning stand-up comedian and author. He has sold out shows from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival all the way to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has appeared on ABCTV, Channel 10, and The Comedy Channel. Off-stage, Benjamin has worked for publishing houses and literary agencies in Australia and the USA. He has worked with some of Australia’s best-loved authors at Curtis Brown Australia.' (https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/benjamin-stevenson

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y separately published work icon Everyone On This Train Is a Suspect Melbourne : Michael Joseph , 2023 26199313 2023 single work novel crime

'Ernest Cunningham returns in a deliciously witty locked room (train) mystery.

'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 (me!)
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?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2024 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian General Fiction Book of the Year
2024 longlisted Indie Awards Fiction
y separately published work icon Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone Melbourne : Michael Joseph , 2022 23695612 2022 single work novel crime

'I was dreading the Cunningham family reunion even before the first murder.

'Before the storm stranded us at the mountain resort, snow and bodies piling up.

'The thing is, us Cunninghams don’t really get along. We’ve only got one thing in common: we’ve all killed someone.

My brother.
My step-sister
My wife
My father
My mother

My sister-in-law
My uncle
My stepfather

My aunt
Me
'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2023 shortlisted Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year Adult Fiction Book of the Year
2023 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian General Fiction Book of the Year
2023 longlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover designed by James Rendall.
2023 longlisted Indie Awards Fiction
2022 shortlisted Dymocks Book of the Year Book of the Year
y separately published work icon Either Side of Midnight Melbourne : Penguin Random House Australia , 2020 18573203 2020 single work novel thriller

A compelling new thriller from the author of Greenlight. When a popular TV presenter shoots himself live on air, his twin brother calls on the help of Jack Quick (from Greenlight) to help him search for answers – and they uncover a disturbing link to a suicide in their past . . .

'One million witnesses. One impossible murder.

'At 9.04pm, Sam ‘Midnight’ Midford delivers his light entertainment monologue to kick off his nightly current affairs show. He’s nervous and his assistant is convinced he’s about to propose to his girlfriend live on air. But instead of a ring, he pulls out a gun and shoots himself in the head.

'When child pornography is discovered on his work laptop, it is assumed that Sam killed himself before his dark secret was revealed.

'But Sam’s grief-stricken twin brother Harry is adamant that the porn was planted and is convinced Sam was murdered. He may have pulled the trigger on live TV, watched by millions, but Harry believes someone made Sam do it. He hires Jack Quick, TV producer and true crime podcaster, to help him discover the truth.

'Together Harry and Jack watch Sam’s final broadcast more closely and in a reflection on the TV monitor behind Sam they see the scrolling words from the teleprompter: I thought you wanted this. Don’t back out on me now.

'Did someone talk Sam into killing himself via the teleprompter? And what could someone say to make a person shoot themselves in front of one million viewers? What secret did Sam have that would be enough to compel him to take his own life? And what is the link with the suicide of Sam’s girlfriend Lily 13 years before?' (Publication summary)

2021 finalist International Thriller Writers' Thriller Awards Best Paperback Original Novel
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