Six Wicked Reasons by Jo SpainMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
In SIX WICKED REASONS, Jo Spain gives us the ultimate dysfunctional family. The Lattimers are ostensibly Wexford gentry - huge mansion, trust funds, business portfolio which promises untold riches to the six grown children when it matures - they have everything and are envied and despised by the villagers of Spanish Cove. Beneath the surface though the family is anything but blessed and when Adam Lattimer, missing ten years and assumed dead, returns to the family home, things fall apart quickly. Frazer Lattimer, a horrible man who gave all of his children a reason to hate him, is dead and was possibly already so when he fell from a yacht in the cove. But, was he murdered, and who killed him?
Jo Spain builds tension slowly jumping in time from before Frazer's death to the investigation following it, an investigation undertaken by a young policeman who grew up with the family. The story evolves through the revolving viewpoints of each of the children, their 'uncle' Danny and Garda Rob Downes. SIX WICKED REASONS is continually surprising and the reveal, when it eventual comes, is totally unexpected; an enjoyable whodunnit which nods strongly to the Agatha Christie model even as it subverts it.
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