Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone

Summary: From the beginning of his story, narrator Ernest Cunningham tells his reader that everyone in his family has, in fact, killed someone: some have committed outright homicide, some have killed in self-defense, some have committed manslaughter, but all have in some way contributed to someone’s demise. Ernie also provides the reader with a list of the page numbers of the book on which deaths will occur.

Despite all these giveaways in the books preface, the story that follows of Ernie’s family’s reunion at a ski resort, and the mystery that unfolds there is compelling and surprising, not to mention an absolute delight to read. The book elicits a similar feeling to the one that Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club inspires.