Saturday Spotlight: Travel #4- This Foul Murder

This month’s Saturday Spotlight theme is Travel, and this week I am sharing “This Foul Murder” by Chloe Gong, a novella in her “Last Violent Call” collection. This book features train travel, mystery, and cozy moments!

It’s time for another Saturday Spotlight! This month’s theme is Travel, and I have shared There You’ll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones, Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard, and Forever Geek by Holly Smale this month. You can find those posts here, here, and here.

This week I am sharing This Foul Murder by Chloe Gong!

This is a novella that is part of Last Violent Call, which I shared in a previous Saturday Spotlight. This week I am focusing on Benedict and Marshall’s novella, where we follow them on a train adventure! I love these characters so much, and I loved seeing them settled down after the events of the main series. I also loved the train settings and the mystery they were trying to solve. It was both cozy and thrilling, with sweet and action-packed moments!

In This Foul Murder, Benedikt and Marshall have been summoned by Roma to find the elusive scientist, Lourens, and bring him to Zhouzhuang. Time is of the essence aboard the week-long Trans-Siberian Express, but when someone is murdered on board, Benedikt and Marshall convince the officer in charge not to stop the train so that they aren’t thrown off-schedule. Instead, they pretend that they are investigators and promise they can solve the murder, but as they dig deeper, they realize that the murder might having surprising ties to their own mission…


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