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 and 1 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Psychological thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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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
'A tense, twisting tale of fate and simmering suspicion.' Woman's Weekly
n'One to relish.' Woman's Own
n'A deliciously dark whodunnit with murder firmly on the menu.' LoveReading, Debut of the Month
n‘Entertaining and twisty – a good one to dive into as the nights grow longer.’ My Weekly
n'A tense, twisting page-turner, blending dark intrigue with razor-sharp wit.' Woman
n‘Twisty, surprising, and impossible to put down.’ Tom Ryan, USA Today bestselling author of The Treasure Hunters Club
n'It’s the brilliantly drawn characters that make this a stand-out novel for me' Lancashire Life
n‘Readers with a penchant for colorful characters, twisty plots, and surprise reveals will find this novel of suspense especially satisfying.’Kirkus Reviews
n‘As tightly constructed and Christie-inspired as a mousetrap.’ Mary Anna Evans, author of The Dark Library
n'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
n‘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
n‘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
n‘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
n‘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
n'This is a real old-fashioned serial killer whodunit – a great read' Bishop's Stortford Independent
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