What an extraordinary book! I bought this on a recent holiday in Britain, recognising the author from his various reviews in periodicals in Britain. I have often heard the phrase "can't put it down" but have rarely experienced it...but that is just what happened. The characters were alluringly shallow and tiresome, and one was presented with a piquant conflict: is one more horrified at their murders and manner of death, or more pleased that they are gone from this world! Astonishingly, this book is in turns funny, appalling, moving, wise and anti-social. The narrator is perfect: one is both attracted and repelled. The mystery of iniquity is perhaps the real subject of this book.