{"id":1314,"date":"2022-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T22:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2025-05-03T17:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T05:19:38","slug":"everyone-in-my-family-has-killed-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/09\/29\/everyone-in-my-family-has-killed-someone\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Benjamin Stevenson<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>Penguin Random House<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, September 29th 2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The narrator of Benjamin Stevenson\u2019s sparkling satire, Earnest Cunningham (author of <em>10 Easy Steps to Write Crime Like You Lived in the 1930s<\/em> and <em>Golden Age Your Golden Page: How to Write a Mystery<\/em>),cleaves to the tenets of classic detective fiction that require the author to provide the reader with all the clues available to the investigator themselves. Indeed, he even provides the page numbers on which all the deaths occur upfront: a quick summary of key details after the first murder and regular reminders of things to pay attention to along the way. Despite this, I was still unable to figure out who was responsible for the four deaths that disrupted the Cunningham family reunion at an isolated Australian ski resort. Maybe it\u2019s just Earnest\u2019s chatty, first-person narration or his constant breaking of the fourth wall to remind us that <em>\u201cI am aware that you\u2019re aware I\u2019m writing all this down\u201d<\/em> that distracted me, but I\u2019m pretty sure he slipped something sneaky past me that was within the limits but not the spirit of the rules. Whatever it is, it is a brilliant move that ensures I will have to reread the whodunnit to figure out howdunnit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/entertainment\/books\/everyone-my-family-has-killed-someone\">https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/entertainment\/books\/everyone-my-family-has-killed-someone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Stevenson Penguin Random House Otago Daily Times, September 29th 2022 The narrator of Benjamin Stevenson\u2019s sparkling satire, Earnest Cunningham (author of 10 Easy Steps to Write Crime Like You Lived in the 1930s and Golden Age Your Golden Page: How to Write a Mystery),cleaves to the tenets of classic detective fiction that require the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[381,409,370,506,18],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-381","tag-benjamin-stevenson","tag-fiction","tag-murder-mystery","tag-odt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}