Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
My entire family has committed a murder. The high achievers among us have committed multiple murders. It’s the truth, not that I’m trying to be theatrical. We all have wonderful and poor traits, as well as unlucky traits. Ernest Cunningham here. Identify me as Ern or Ernie. It’s a little more complicated than that, but I wish I’d assassinated whoever decided our family reunion should take place at a ski resort. Have I murdered anyone? Yes. I have. It was who? Let’s get going.
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
18 used from $28.29
Free shipping
Amazon.com
The Cunninghams are a family with both actual and metaphorical skeletons in their closets. They have come for a family reunion in an Australian ski resort. Because Michael is leaving prison after his brother, Ernest had placed him there, it’s already going to be a tense reunion. Ernest serves as our narrator and addresses the audience as a whole in a sort of “meta” literary style. He even reveals which chapters contain deaths. He states right away that every member of his family has committed a murder.
It takes set at a resort on an Australian mountain covered in snow, and the main characters are left stranded by mysterious storms. That murder is kept within the family is not a spoiler. It might come as a shock to learn that, despite its serious subject matter, this book is also frequently amusing.
Ernest Cunningham is well-versed in murders, at least in the realm of fiction. He avoids his incredibly complex family by spending most of his time writing books about how to write books. But when a required family reunion at a far-off ski resort results in several actual fatalities, our unfortunate writer will have to solve the crimes and his own family’s extremely complicated past.
This novel is excellently written, and it has a medieval flair! You can easily get sucked into this novel because of the intriguing characters.
