Author: Paul Murray

I worried about this book from the very beginning. The first page talked about a man who had murdered his family and then set the gun on himself. A little unsettling, but I was okay. Then I turned to the back of the book, not to see the ending but to see how many pages. I couldn’t help but see the final sentences, “It is love. You are doing this for love.”

The story is told from the point of view of the Barnes family – Dickie, Imelda, Cass and PJ. Although they are all telling the back story there a new details that come out in each telling. The murder/suicide didn’t happen to this family and did, indeed, happen in another town but did that make the ending any easier? It is one of those “you decide” stories.

Goodreads Rating: * * * *