EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE BY BENJAMIN STEVENSON

MINI BOOK REVIEW

This popped up in my search for best-selling dark humour, and when I saw blurbs from two of my favorite authors -- Jane Harper & Karin Slaughter -- I was in.

This is the one about Ern, the thirty-something guy behind How-to-Write-a-Mystery manuals whose brother is getting out of prison and there's a family reunion at a secluded ski resort in Australia.

(All my hours of watching House Hunters International, I'd never once seen an Australian ski lodge, so I had no idea there was such a thing -- but hey — that's why we read.)

It's a big family, and it's not a spoiler to say, everyone's killed someone (it's surprising how different motives and methods makes that more plausible than you'd think). Some deaths were before the book starts, and are rehashed, some happen on the page and while it's a bit more Glass-Onion-deduction than I'd anticipated, it's told in such a fresh way, you keep flippin' the pages.