"A deliciously dark whodunnit with murder firmly on the menu."
Sharply observed, Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests is a clever, chilling mystery that gives a nod to Agatha Christie whilst carving out its own darkly modern twist.
It all begins in November 2015, when Vivienne, Deputy Editor of a glossy magazine and lifelong fan of Hercule Poirot, receives a thick black invitation card with expensive gold lettering.
Curiousity leads her to a mysterious dinner party at a random London address. Seven invites had been sent.
Around the glittering table are six other guests. Seemingly plucked from a different part of the London social jungle. There’s Botoxed lingerie mogul Janet; former Welsh cop Melvin; flashy YouTuber Stella; cocky TV doctor Gordon; awkward techie Tristan; and Matthew, a glossy-haired bachelor with a killer smile and charm as cheap as his shirts are tight. But who brought them together. And why?
As the wine flows, the tension builds as each guest discovers a small black envelope beside their glass, mirroring the one that brought them here. What begins as a slightly absurd evening soon descends into something far more sinister, as one guest opens her envelope and reads aloud a message predicting her own death. A cruel prank? Or something worse?
Told through alternating viewpoints and unfolding across key dates, this story is a slow-burning, ticking time bomb. With each chapter, secrets are revealed, masks slip, and the number of living guests dwindles.
Vivienne, one of our sharp-eyed narrators, is haunted by both her past and the creeping sense that someone is orchestrating this nightmare with deadly precision. She’s certain: the party host is a murderer. And they haven’t finished yet.
I came to love the characters. So boldly drawn. Sometimes grotesquely so. Each of them a suspect, a victim, or both? Or is there a devil involved, orchestrating the whole bloody mess?
The use of seven envelopes, seven guests, and seven deadly sins creates a satisfying symmetry to the creeping dread.
One night none of them can forget. Is it a prophecy? A vendetta? Or something more twisted?
I raced to the end and I’ll rethink every dinner party invitation I ever receive.
| Primary Genre | Thriller and Suspense |
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