Six top suspense novels set on moving vehicles

Louise Candlish was born in Hexham, Northumberland, and grew up in the Midlands town of Northampton. She studied English at University College London and worked as an illustrated books editor and copywriter before writing fiction. Her novels include the thriller Our House, winner of the British Book Awards 2019 Crime & Thriller Book of the Year, and a new book, The Other Passenger.

At CrimeReads she tagged six top mysteries set on trains, boats and transport, including:

Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge

This Titanic-set novel is as gripping as any crime thriller, in spite of – perhaps because of – our knowing very well the scale of the suffering to come. Pages are turned not to discover what happens but who will survive – and who must perish. Narrated by 22-year-old Morgan of the JP Morgan banking clan, the prose has a spare, pragmatic quality, leading us inexorably to the chilling moment when he tells us ‘I knew the ship was now my enemy.’

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Every Man for Himself is among John Mullan's ten best examples of scars in fiction.

--Marshal Zeringue