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'I was dreading the Cunningham family reunion even before the first murder.
'Before the storm stranded us at the mountain resort, snow and bodies piling up.
'The thing is, us Cunninghams don’t really get along. We’ve only got one thing in common: we’ve all killed someone.
My brother.
My step-sister
My wife
My father
My mother
My sister-in-law
My uncle
My stepfather
My aunt
Me'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Works about this Work
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Benjamin Stevenson in Conversation
Christine Gordon
(interviewer),
2022
24782510
2022
single work
podcast
interview
'Comedian and crime author Benjamin Stevenson in conversation about his latest work, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone.'
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Cosy Crime : Benjamin Stevenson’s Entertaining Third Novel
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 442 2022; (p. 38)
— Review of Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone 2022 single work novel'Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven series (1949–63) was my induction into crime reading. I was smitten with the secret society of children who set out to solve mysteries and right wrongs despite adults’ disbelief and objections. As a teen, I graduated to Agatha Christie and Arthur Upfield (in the 1970s, we were still unaware how offensive his depiction of Detective Inspector Napoleon ‘Bony’ Bonaparte was to Aboriginal Australians). Later, came writers of the hard-boiled school – Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Chester Himes – and others, like Georges Simenon and James Ellroy, who extended or subverted the conventions of the genre.' (Introduction)
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Cosy Crime : Benjamin Stevenson’s Entertaining Third Novel
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 442 2022; (p. 38)
— Review of Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone 2022 single work novel'Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven series (1949–63) was my induction into crime reading. I was smitten with the secret society of children who set out to solve mysteries and right wrongs despite adults’ disbelief and objections. As a teen, I graduated to Agatha Christie and Arthur Upfield (in the 1970s, we were still unaware how offensive his depiction of Detective Inspector Napoleon ‘Bony’ Bonaparte was to Aboriginal Australians). Later, came writers of the hard-boiled school – Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Chester Himes – and others, like Georges Simenon and James Ellroy, who extended or subverted the conventions of the genre.' (Introduction)
-
y
Benjamin Stevenson in Conversation
Christine Gordon
(interviewer),
2022
24782510
2022
single work
podcast
interview
'Comedian and crime author Benjamin Stevenson in conversation about his latest work, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone.'
Awards
- 2023 shortlisted Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year — Adult Fiction Book of the Year
- 2023 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian General Fiction Book of the Year
- 2023 longlisted APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover designed by James Rendall.
- 2023 longlisted Indie Awards — Fiction
- 2022 shortlisted Dymocks Book of the Year — Book of the Year