Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests: A Novel

Summary

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?

“KJ Whittle transforms the dinner table into a stage for secrets, manipulation, and an extra serving of malice. It’s an all-you-can-eat feast for readers, and no doubt I’ll be coming back for seconds.”—Mallory Arnold, author of How to Survive a Horror Story