Book Review
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone: A self-referential thriller trips up over its own cleverness
Knowing and wry, Benjamin Stevenson’s Australian crime novel ultimately gives the reader too little work to do
Benjamin Stevenson’s hapless narrator Ernest Cunningham writes “how-to” books for a living. Or, as Juliette, owner of the exclusive Australian ski resort Ernest and his warring family visit, describes it: “You write books about how to write books that you’ve never written, bought by people who will never write one.” Ernest is a fan of classic detective fiction: Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and especially Ronald Knox – the co-founder of the Detection Club whose ...
