With a Vengeance by Riley Sager

by Riley Sager

Dutton/Penguin Random House

December 1954: Anna Matheson’s father, Philadelphia blue blood Arthur Matheson, owned the Union Atlantic Railroad. Back in 1942 sabotage struck a UARR train carrying hundreds of soldiers. Thirty-seven men were killed, including Anna’s brother. Arthur’s name was blackened, his company ruined and bought out by a competitor. Now five of the six people responsible for the sabotage are aboard The Philadelphia Phoenix, bound from Philadelphia to Chicago. Anna seeks justice, but the main culprit, railroad tycoon Kenneth Wentworth, is absent. Instead his son, eligible bachelor, railroad heir and Anna’s former boyfriend Dante Wentworth has taken his father’s place.

Thanks to Seamus Callahan, whose brother was also killed aboard the fatal train, Anna has evidence against all of the saboteurs. The trapped guilty parties are acting like rats in a cage—then one of them dies. The Phoenix won’t stop under any circumstances, even death, before Chicago and a rendezvous with the FBI. Now Anna has to identify the murderer inside the trap she set.

Enter a stranger, who seems to have wandered onto the wrong train. Is he what he appears to be? As the train hurtles through the stormy night Anna learns the shocking truths behind the evidence. More bodies fall, and it becomes a race against time to identify and foil the murderer before justice is denied—or everyone is killed.

Murder-mystery lovers will go full steam ahead aboard the express train to murder in With a Vengeance. Sager expertly ramps up the tension in the claustrophobic railroad train setting with shocking twists and turns along the track all the way to the dramatic end.