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.\n\nThe program is a who's who of crime writing royalty:\n\nthe debut writer (me!)\n\nthe forensic science writer\n\nthe blockbuster writer\n\nthe legal thriller writer\n\nthe literary writer\n\nthe psychological suspense writer.\n\nBut when one of us is murdered, six authors quickly turn into five detectives. Together, we should know how to solve a crime.\n\nOr commit one...