Review: Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests - KJ Whittle - January 2025 Let me tell you about a book that had me at “hello” and lost me at the very last course. The premise of this one is, quite simply, one of my favourites. Seven strangers gather at Serendipity’s for an anonymously hosted dinner party, and as the evening draws to a close, little black envelopes appear in front of each diner, each one revealing the age at which they will die. Delicious, isn’t it? It’s the sort of hook that has you reading the blurb twice and tucking the book under your arm before you’ve even made it to the till. And for most of its length, the story delivers on that promise. The opening is wonderfully atmospheric, with the rainy night, the candlelit table, and a group of strangers who are spooked but not quite shaken enough to run for the hills. When the first guest dies at their foretold age, just two weeks later, the unease really begins to creep in. Was it a tragic accident or something far...