Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

Ernest Cunningham makes his living publishing how-to guides for aspiring crime writers, which makes him an unusually self-aware narrator when his estranged family gathers at a snowbound mountain resort and the bodies start to pile up. Ernest opens by promising the reader a fair-play mystery, then narrates the reunion while constantly breaking the fourth wall to flag where the clues sit and which Golden Age rules he is obeying. Every member of his family, by the title's own admission, has killed someone, and as the snow traps the guests Ernest has to untangle old crimes and new ones at once. Stevenson takes the closed-circle whodunit, turns it inside out, and still lands a string of twists.