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Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests
A Mystery Novel by KJ Whittle
Subgenres:
- Locked Room,
- Darkly Humorous
This book is for you if you're into...
- Dinner parties where the menu is murder and mortality
- Multiple perspectives unraveling a deadly social experiment
- Dark humor that makes you question your own dinner guests
From Little Stack
If you’ve ever sat through a dinner party thinking, “someone here might actually kill me”, then Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests is your new favorite read. K.J. Whittle takes the genteel setting of clinking glasses and polite conversation and turns it into a deliciously dark social experiment. Seven guests. Seven cards. Each one predicts the age they’ll die… and naturally, that’s when people start dropping like overcooked soufflés.
This isn’t your grandmother’s whodunit of yesteryear. It’s sharp, contemporary, and wickedly funny in that “should I really be laughing?” kind of way. The tension simmers like gravy left too long on the stove, the dialogue crackles with venomous charm, and you’ll find yourself side-eyeing your own dinner companions by the end of the opening chapter.
It’s part Agatha Christie, part Knives Out, with a dash of existential dread for flavor. Perfect for anyone who loves their mysteries served hot, clever, and just a little bit murderous.
Three courses. Seven guests. One card. It's a deadly evening they'll never forget.
Seven strangers meet for an anonymously hosted dinner party. As the evening winds down, seven cards appear, one in front of each of the guests. On the card is a number – the age at which they will die. Thinking it an elaborate prank, the guests disperse into the night, hoping to forget the morbid evening forever.
Two weeks later, one of them is dead at exactly the age the card predicted.
It must be a coincidence. But as more guests die, each one dead at the same age as their card, it soon becomes clear that something much more sinister is afoot. Now, it's up to the quickly dwindling group to figure out who (or what) was behind that fateful dinner party, before their numbers catch up with them.
Told from the perspectives of each of the seven guests, Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests is a spellbinding and mysterious exploration of mortality, begging the question: how would you live your life if you knew your number was up?
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