Honey! Guess who is coming to dinner? Hey, why don’t you answer me! Oh my gosh, honey why the hell you’re bleeding! No pulse! Well, more food for three!
The dinner is planned to be served to table of four ! One is down! Three of them left as murder suspects!
Matthew is good father is stabbed to death!
The charming, instagram phenomenon Charlie, devoted husband , Rachel is the stranger with full secrets, Titus looks like perfect son are three murder suspects! Who could have stabbed Matthew?
Well, our vote for killer is Rachel! And she already confessed! So case is closed! No! Why not! Because dear Charlie blurted out at the first pages that she’s innocent!

So who killed Matthew? The perfect husband or perfect son? Or there’s fifth person at the kitchen? And why the hell Rachel confessed the murder she didn’t commit!

Buckle up for the wildest, mind blowing, high tension, psychological thriller!

We have two narrators: Charlie and Rachel!
When we read Charlie’s POV: we may find at least 10 million reasons to hate him: he’s selfish, narcissistic, spoiled, privileged, pretentious, know it all, jealous, irritating, restless human being who gets on our nerves! Another punchable, very dislikable character we love to see in pain, groveling!

He gets suspicious since the first time she meets Rachel at the bookstore and then she bumps into her at the same day with his husband Matthew! And worst part is not seeing a woman at different places in a few hours. His husband invited him to his book club! A very secluded club with its privileged, a little older members: a famous movie star, his daughter in law and Charlie’s godmother.

Charlie joins the book club gathering at the first time and catching Rachel snooping around their bedroom increases his suspicions about her! And other week, Rachel saves Titus from muggers! What a coincidence! She was in the right place at the exactly very right time!

Charlie’s suspicions grows as Rachel slowly involves into their lives. But everybody seems like pleased with her involvement even though she’s coming from lower class, rejecting to talk about her past, she perfectly adjusts in their social circle and activities!

But I have to admit Charlie is right. Rachel keeps heart wrenching secrets and she acts so weird around Titus, watching out his each move like a hawk. Why she is obsessed with the family?

So many questions, so many secrets, so many lies! Get ready to expect the unexpected! This unputdownable, addictive, mind blowing thriller makes you sweat, sit at the edge, tingle your nerves! It’s truly agitating but you can not stop reading because it’s so exciting, surprising, twisty!

Especially the last third of the book: it turns into wilder ride, things get messier, crazier! I hope your heart can handle this whirlwind adrenaline rush! But I’m telling you my friends it’s truly worth it!

It’s not only one of the best psychological thriller about betrayal, addiction, anger management, revenge, it is also objective criticism of class differences and the prejudiced observations of privileged people about the lower classes!

I’m giving my five suspicious, smart, juicy, engrossing, addictive, heart pounding stars!
Definitely one of the best books of the year I truly recommend!

Special thanks to NetGalley and Harper Collins UK/ One More Chapter for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest opinions.

Wow!! This book is one of the reasons I love thrillers so much. I think the plot is going one way, and then you take a sharp turn knocking you off your feet! Thank you so much for this copy to review I am not disappointed!

Right off the bat, the blurb grabbed me and I was instantly hooked. I wanted to know why, how, what - and I honestly couldn’t wait until I got this ARC.

THE PLOT:
I really thought the plot was interesting. The suspense was there and it built up well. I think my biggest issue with this book and why I didn’t rate it higher was I found the killers reasoning to be unjust and a bit dramatic. I guess it’s only expected with this genre but I honestly found myself rolling my eyes.
THE CHARACTERS:
They were all interesting enough but I kind of wish we got the POV from Titus as well as the others or his instead of Charlie’s as I felt his perspective interested me more. I liked the flashback scenes and that really helped build the picture. I enjoyed the narration and I liked these characters voices.
THRILLER/MYSTERY ASPECT:
For the most part, this was done well and I felt hooked enough to carry on reading. I think the flashbacks and alternative POV’s helped with this. I do think more could have been done to add a sense of foreboding or eeriness to the book as it was kind of like reading something from a dysfunctional family rather than a murder.

Overall, a decent book with well written characters and fleshed out enough plot.
I received this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I liked the sound of the plot, completely original to the psychological thrillers I am use to but it keeps it fresh and exciting reading something different. Four people that walk into a dining room and one never leaves, you start asking yourself all these questions even before you pick up the book. Like why? what did they do? so many questions but then you want to start reading and through out the book everything becomes apparent. We learn about each character throughout the book, Matthew is Charlie's husband and Titus is Matthew's son, Rachel is a stranger but does she know more about their life than they do? I did find it a little slow towards the middle but the ending made up for it. You won't in a million years guess what the twist is. A very fresh and interesting read.

Not for me. First, the characters were all flat and single-minded. Second, there were inconsistencies that agitated me.
Let me stick to two (at 13% on the same page, mind you) that Titus was calling Charlie 'Daddy Charlie' since the age of five. He was an item with his father for six years when Titus is fourteen in the book. And he mentions moving in Charlie's Marble Arch flat, but this was Matthew's house.

This is a gripping modern take on the posh dinner whodunnit with an unexpected resolution. A fresh and interesting mix of both snooty and gritty characters brings the family mystery to life, with clever use of different voices. Moral of the tale: be very careful who you invite to book club....

I was so excited when I got approved for this book! Thanks NG and Publisher!
This book was great! For sure a good one I've read so far in 2021!
The suspense is thrilling! And the characters will have you saying WTH?!
Writing was also very good! BP did an outstanding job on this one!

The Dinner Guest by B.P. Walter, published by One More Chapter / Harper Collins UK, is not the usual thriller. It's a story that gripped me with both hands, wrapped me in a snuggly blanket of suspense, lead me through twists and turns, and at the end it pulled the carpet of " I think I got eveything sorted out " from under my poor readerfeet. And I enjoyed every second of it. The Dinner Guest is one of the books that makes me read them, cover to cover in one sitting, breathless, unputdownable sitting on the edge of my seat. I mean, who needs sleep anyway.
I started reading and had an insta-connection to all the characters, and that doesn't happen very often, if at all. But the Dinner Guest managed to pull me into their story very easily.
The Dinner Guest is one of my favorite reads in 21, excellent written, with an outstanding storyline and plottwists that I never had expected.
I recommend this book.

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A good read. Go for it.
Four people walked into the dining room that night. One would never leave.
Matthew: the perfect husband.
Titus: the perfect son.
Charlie: the perfect illusion.Rachel: the perfect stranger.Charlie didn’t want her at the book club. Matthew wouldn’t listen. And that’s how Charlie finds himself slumped beside his husband’s body, their son sitting silently at the dinner table, while Rachel calls 999, the bloody knife still gripped in her hand.
Thanks to NetGalley and One More Chapter for giving me an advanced copy.

I received an advanced reader’s copy in exchange for an honest review

The first 70% was a very solid thriller, but then it just went off the rails with one “what the f@$& did I just read” after another. This is not to say that it’s a bad book. It just wasn’t rational.
It just wasn’t rational.

This incredible thriller kept me on the edge of my seat until the last page. The characters draw you in and the plot is fast paced. Readers will definitely enjoy this pick.

This thriller starts with a murder and an arrest on the first page. Then comes the twisty, unpredictable, flashbacks and flash forwards explaining or not what lead to the events on the first page. If you like the trope of rich people behaving badly then you’ll like this book.

Expect the Unexpected!

What a fabulous thriller! The Dinner Guest is not your usual domestic thriller. As the story starts, we are told of a murder - Charlie's husband's been murdered and Rachel, their dinner guest dialed 999 with a bloody knife gripped in her hand. We then have a series of backstories - Charlie and Mathew's married life, their relationship with Titus (includes a backstory on Titus) and how Rachel 'interfered' in their lives...

The twists are plenty and the suspense keeps one on the edge of their seats. If you think you are smart enough to guess the identity of the killer, think again! The red herrings are sure to take you on the wrong path.

I absolutely loved every bit of this book. Be it the character portrayal or the suspense, B.P Walter has done an excellent job in keeping us readers hooked on to the story till the end. I highly recommend this book.

The Dinner Guest is the THRILLER OF THE YEAR!