Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests

Seven guests. Three courses. One deadly evening.

K J Whittle

• Publisher: HarperNorth
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9780008805302
• eBook ISBN:
  9780008738723
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Crime & Mystery Literature
• Index: Literature

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?

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Note to Readers
• Praise
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• The Dinner Party: November 2015
• The Wine Bar: December 2015 – two weeks later
• The Restaurant: March 2015 – three months later
• The Pub: August 2016 – six months later
• The Lecture: May 2017– eight months later
• The Bridge: November 2018 – eighteen months later
• The Funeral: May 2019 – six months later
• Before the Dinner Party: November 2015 – four years earlier
• The Graveyard: May 2025
• Acknowledgements
• About the Publisher