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Secrets of Eden

Abusive father murders wife/kills self in rural Vermont.  Narrator (Reverend) is crushed. Crisis of faith and -- we learn offhandedly -- he was having an affair with the murdered wife.  15 year old daughter survives.  A writer of a book entitled Angels & Auras visits him.  Flake, publicity hound, he thinks--but it emerges that her father killed her mother and himself when she was 15, so her interest is understandable.

Main character decides to leave the community and maybe give up his calling as a minister.  Funeral.  Writer shows up. 

Bohjalian is terrific.  Character, plot, description, building a plot.  Suspect that reverend will become a suspect.  His sexual interest in the dead wife is clear, and he seems attracted to 15 year old as well.  Likely to get complicated.

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