Author: Eva Jurczyk
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
To Be Published: October 28, 2025
While this book could have almost devolved into the black comedy humor of Weekend at Bernie’s, it actually unfolds as a macabre sequence of events that occur after Agatha is encouraged by her husband to take a train from Toronto to Montreal as a way to rejuvenate her writing. And boy does it! No one could have predicted the train stalling on the tracks after a ferocious snowstorm. Or that all of the cell connectivity would disappear. Or that the group of characters on board would be the strangest people to be stuck with.
I did have trouble getting into the book, especially since one of the characters was named Dorcas (which is way too much like dufus), but the need to find out what was going on overrode that. There is a lot that will require the reader to suspend disbelief, but just go with it and I promise this book will stick in your head for a long time!
Thank you to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for sending an advance reader’s eArc by this new-to-me author!
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