Secrets of Eden

by Chris Bohjalian

I love Chris Bohjalian, and I liked Secrets of Eden (but not quite as well as some of his other books). It tells about a husband-wife murder suicide from the perspectives of the minister who baptized the wife right before she was murdered, the DA prosecuting the case, an author who writes about angels who finds herself drawn to the case, and the daughter of the couple. Bohjalian does nifty things with unreliable narrators. One minor criticism--the DA character seemed kind of flat and uncreative. It seemed like she was a copy of every tough female cop or lawyer on any legal drama. Other than that, a good book.