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A review by oashackelford
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
5.0
Ernest Cunningham is a writer with a complicated family dynamic. Having seen his brother murder a man, and having turned him over to the police hasn't exactly endeared him to his family. His aunt Katherine suggested a family reunion to help welcome Ernest's brother home. Of course this reunion is at a remote ski lodge in the mountains, and of course someone is going to die this weekend. The question is who? The other question of course, in a family of killers, is who is responsible?
I love mysteries and I especially love the golden age of crime fiction, so when this book was described as a cross between Knives Out and Agatha Christie I had to check it out. The author pokes a lot of fun at what typical mysteries do throughout the book as a way to throw you off the right line of thinking, while still following all of the rules laid out in the prologue. I thought that this was such a fun tongue in cheek way of writing the book, and it also made it really engaging. I finished this book in a day and now that I am done I am looking forward to the sequel.
I love mysteries and I especially love the golden age of crime fiction, so when this book was described as a cross between Knives Out and Agatha Christie I had to check it out. The author pokes a lot of fun at what typical mysteries do throughout the book as a way to throw you off the right line of thinking, while still following all of the rules laid out in the prologue. I thought that this was such a fun tongue in cheek way of writing the book, and it also made it really engaging. I finished this book in a day and now that I am done I am looking forward to the sequel.