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Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests
- Author
- K J Whittle
- Narrator
- Jacqueline King
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 11 September 2025
- Run Time
- 10 hours 1 minute
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Psychological thriller, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Thriller / suspense fiction
- Rating
- 3.7 (3 reviews)
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What to expect
Seven guests. Three courses. One evening they'll never forget…
Seven strangers meet at Serendipity's for an anonymously hosted dinner party. As the evening reaches its close, small black envelopes are placed in front of the diners… revealing the age at which each will die.
Spooked, but not wholly shaken, the group disperses into the rainy night with the hope of forgetting the ghoulish stunt.
But two weeks later, one dinner guest dies at the age foretold. Was it a tragic accident? Or something more sinister?
As the years go by, the other guests begin to die in line with the predictions given on that first night. And it's up to the remaining few to figure who, if anyone, was behind that dinner party before their numbers catch up with them too.
Told from the perspectives of the guests, Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests balances mystery and mortality, asking: how would you live your life if you know your number was up?
Critics Review
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'A tense, twisting tale of fate and simmering suspicion.' Woman's Weekly
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'One to relish.' Woman's Own
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'A deliciously dark whodunnit with murder firmly on the menu.' LoveReading, Debut of the Month
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‘Entertaining and twisty – a good one to dive into as the nights grow longer.’ My Weekly
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'A tense, twisting page-turner, blending dark intrigue with razor-sharp wit.' Woman
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‘Twisty, surprising, and impossible to put down.’ Tom Ryan, USA Today bestselling author of The Treasure Hunters Club
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'It’s the brilliantly drawn characters that make this a stand-out novel for me' Lancashire Life
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‘Readers with a penchant for colorful characters, twisty plots, and surprise reveals will find this novel of suspense especially satisfying.’Kirkus Reviews
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‘As tightly constructed and Christie-inspired as a mousetrap.’ Mary Anna Evans, author of The Dark Library
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'Bold, biting, and blood-soaked in wit, Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests is a masterclass of tension and twisted humor.’ Mallory Arnold, author of How to Survive a Horror Story
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‘Deviously plotted and utterly entertaining K.J. Whittle proves you can't trust anyone at the table. A genuine delight to read.’ L.C. North, author of Clickbait
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‘I loved this book! Brilliant characters, wry humour and a mystery to die for. Christie would be proud of this perfectly constructed whodunnit.’ L.M. Chilton, author of Swiped
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‘Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests is clever, engaging, and enjoyable a delightful homage to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.’ Stacy Johns, author of What Remains of Teague House
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‘K.J. Whittle's pacy mystery is a gourmet dish that crime aficionados will devour with relish. Hugely entertaining.’ Martin Edwards, author of the Rachel Savernake Mysteries and Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife
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'This is a real old-fashioned serial killer whodunit – a great read' Bishop's Stortford Independent
User Reviews
Book 3.7
Narration 5.0
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3.0 5.0
A solid murder mystery with interesting character studies of how people react when faced with their own mortality. Read if you enjoyed Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.
SedgeWren 2026-03-20 -
4.0 5.0
I didn't find this as "tense and twisty" as the official reviewers. In fact the first half seemed to lack momentum as there were no leads or plausible suspects and it was more concerned with the characters reactions to believing their time would soon be up than with solving a mystery. But this was interesting and made me wonder what I would do. It gets more suspenseful towards the end, which brings a series of surprises and a satisfying conclusion.
jackdor 2026-02-19
Details
- Author
- K J Whittle
- Narrator
- Jacqueline King
- Duration
- 10 hours 1 minute
- Release Date
- 11 September 2025
- ISBN
- 9780008738730
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Psychological thriller, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Thriller / suspense fiction
- Rating
- 3.7(3 reviews)
- Narration
- 5.0(3 reviews)
Synopsis
Seven guests. Three courses. One evening they'll never forget… Seven strangers meet at Serendipity's for an anonymously hosted dinner party. As the evening reaches its close, small black envelopes are placed in front of the diners… revealing the age at which each will die. Spooked, but not wholly shaken, the group disperses into the rainy night with the hope of forgetting the ghoulish stunt. But two weeks later, one dinner guest dies at the age foretold. Was it a tragic accident? Or something more sinister? As the years go by, the other guests begin to die in line with the predictions given on that first night. And it's up to the remaining few to figure who, if anyone, was behind that dinner party before their numbers catch up with them too. Told from the perspectives of the guests, Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests balances mystery and mortality, asking: how would you live your life if you know your number was up?
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