Book description
1866. On a train bound for Portsmouth, an elegant woman shares a first-class compartment with a gentleman in a celebratory mood. Giles Blanchard reveals his lecherous side as the journey gets underway, but he will never reach his home on the Isle of Wight alive. This chance encounter is to…
Why read it?
1 author picked Murder in Transit as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I'm sure you all know that famous line from "Jane Eyre": reader I married him. Well, I happen to be married too, Not a man who kept his mad wife in the attic. I'm married to another novelist, Edward Marston, the crime writer. He describes himself as the Dickens to my George Eliot - now, what a household those two would have made! I love his Railway Detective series, which takes his protagonists all over England.
Here they are in Hampshire. Guess who is in residence in Osborne House, just across the Solent on the Isle of White? In a…
If you love Murder in Transit...
Come To Harm
This is Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman's first case in a series of six books. Months from retirement Kent-based Fran doesn't have a great life - apart from her work. She's menopausal and at the beck and call of her elderly parents, who live in Devon. But instead of lightening…
Want books like Murder in Transit?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 92 books like Murder in Transit.
Share your top 3 reads of 2025!
And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.
1,210
readers submitted
so far, will you?
