Ninth Passenger

The manifest lists eight passengers. At 1:13 a.m., a ninth walks into the dining car—and accuses one of them of murder.Minutes later, an avalanche traps the Northlight Sleeper between a collapsed cutting and a failing bridge. The stranger vanishes from a sealed carriage, leaving behind theatrical blood, a forged manifest, and an antique recorder that speaks in investigator Mara Ellison's own voice...