Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests: Three courses. Seven guests. One evening they'll never forget.
By (Author) K J Whittle
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperNorth
25th November 2025
11th September 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Paperback
320
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 20mm
270g
Three courses. Seven guests. 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 seven guests, Number's Up balances mystery and mortality perfectly, begging the question: how would you live your life if you know your number was up
To come
Kerry Whittle grew up in Cumbria and studied English Language and Literature in London. She is an experienced journalist, having written for national newspapers and magazines for the last 20 years, specialising in real life stories. In 2020, she attended Curtis Brown Creatives novel writing course. She lives in Manchester with her husband and two sons.