Secrets of Eden- eBook Review

Chris Bohjalian gets me every time because I'm just going along all happy, happy, joy, reading his story and then BAM, I'm like where the hell did that come from? Secrets of Eden is no exception. While I didn't like this book as much as The Double Bind or Midwives, it was still a great read. This is the story of George and Alice Hayward victims of murder-suicide and is divided into four separate but interconnected narratives: Reverend Stephen Drew, Detective Catherine Benicasa, angel and aura expert and general cookoo bird Heather Laurent and the Haywards's daughter Katie. I enjoyed Reverend Drew's narrative the best. He sets the tone and the basis of the story and then as I read the other narratives, I got layers upon layers of juicy complexity that made me wonder who the heck was the big fat liar. And as is typical Bohjalian, the layers are slowly peeled away, having stained the original and left me wanting to reread the first 100 pages.