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Ernest Cunningham reading order

Benjamin Stevenson

  1. Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone2022
  2. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect2023
  3. Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret2024
  4. Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief2026
7.87.8 / 10
791 ratings
Score
4 volumes
Volumes
2022–2026
Published
about 23 h
Reading time
Ongoing
Status

Quick answer

Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
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Publication order

4 volumes2022–2026Ongoing

  • Comic murder mysteries narrated by Ernest Cunningham, a writer of guides to detective fiction, who promises to play fair with the reader and keeps telling you on which page each death occurs.
  • Each case stands alone, starting with Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone; order adds running jokes.

A plan for the whole series

4 volumes, 1,266 pages, about 23 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 4 weeks.

  • The series is still running; the last volume came out in 2026. You will wait for the next one anyway, so no need to rush.

Stages

2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 3, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.

  1. Stage 117 habout 3 weeksby November 21, 2026
    • 1. Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone2022 · 384 pages · 7 h
    • 2. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect2023 · 328 pages · 6 h
    • 3. Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret2024 · 240 pages · 4 h
  2. Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.82 h, by November 25, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  3. Stage 26 h8 daysby December 3, 2026
  4. The end of the series
    December 3, 2026
In one goNovember 29, 2026about 4 weeks
In stages, with breaksDecember 3, 2026about 5 weeks · +2 h of other books

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How this plan is calculated

The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →

Every volume in order

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  1. Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
    Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone2022 · 483 ratings · Not ranked yetStart hereBuy
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  2. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
    Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect2023 · 201 ratings · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  3. Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret
    Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret2024 · 107 ratings · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  4. Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief
    Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief2026 · 49 ratings
    7.77.7 / 10

Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026

Frequently asked questions

Which Ernest Cunningham book is the longest?

“Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone” is the longest at 384 pages; the shortest is “Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret” with 240 pages.