Thank you to NetGalley for a review copy of this book in exchange for an honest review! I really struggled to remain within the story for this one and I’m not quite sure why. It has all the makings of a book I love and somehow, I was sorely disappointed. I had a hard time connecting and understanding all the character’s viewpoints and how the pieces fit together. I would love to read something from this author again to give another go, though!

Charlie and Matthew, seemed like the perfect couple. They had good careers, a beautiful home and a wonderful son. They had their differences but they worked through them. They had friends and family nearby and by all accounts their lives were full. Too full according to Charlie but Matthew disagreed. Particularly, Charlie was not happy with the book club. Especially when Matthew added a new member. A woman he met at the grocery store. Charlie didn’t know anything about Rachel but he knew he didn’t like herS didn’t like her around her husband or her son. One night at dinner he realized, how right he was. Rachel had a knife, his husband was dead and his son was watching it all. What in the world went wrong? What secrets led to the murder? Could Charlie protect him and his son? What lies had Matthew told? This was a good mystery. Suspenseful at times. I enjoyed the characters and the plot. This was a quick read for me. It was 4 stars..I want to thank Netgalley and B.P. Walter for my copy of The Dinner Guest, for an honest review. It was my pleasure to read & review this book. I hope you enjoy it as well..

What a freaking ride! I loved this book! I thought going into it that it was going to be another story of a dinner party gone wrong that is somewhat predictable. Boy was I wrong! I loved just about everything with this book…the twists, the elitism, the family drama, the extremely disturbing and graphic torturing scene. This one knocked it out of the park for me!

A book that grabs a reder from page one and keeps the story moving quickly through the end. There were a few clues that hinted at different endings but WOW, watch the reveal come quickly out of nowhere and surprise the heck out of all of us.

*Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this arc in exchange for my honest review*

Gripping, totally enjoyable thriller! I would recommend this to anyone who likes a good slow burn thriller.

The dinner is planned to be served to table of four! One is down! Three of them left as murder suspects! 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 cannot 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 thrillers 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 devoured this read I give it five stars.

Very much enjoyed this book and the author's writing. One of the more gripping books I've read in a while, hard to put the book down! Makes me intrigued to read more by this author.

Interesting and well written I just personally couldn’t get into the story. Just a little slow and unbelievable at some points. Ending predictable and also way too drawn out. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Manipulation rules in The Dinner Guest, where key characters live to hide their true personalities amid their wealth and pedigree. Reading groups will enjoy this story about what motivates people to act and to lie. Titus, the adopted son of married couple Charles and Matthew, is an original teenage character who uses the secrets he keeps to get his way. Then there is Rachel, who works her way into their lives to seek revenge for her brother's death. A good page-turning read.

this reminds me so much of a movie and I loved it even more. the suspense was incredible and It never felt slow or forced. I really enjoyed The Who dun it aspect and I never saw the ending coming. deff recommend.

Four people (Charlie, Matthew, Titus and Rachel) walked into the dining room that night. One would never leave.

The less you know before going into this book the better, that's how I went in. I enjoy books that take place over a short time period, it keeps a high-paced environment and stakes are raised. This book was fun to read and kept you gripped from beginning to end. I would definitely recommend this,

4 stars! The Dinner Guest is a thrilling whodunit that will keep you guessing until the end. Highly recommend!
Thank you to B.P. Walter, Harper 360, and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

In the first chapters of The Dinner Guest it almost seemed as if the ending and fallout of the novel were given away. Then, B P Walter makes it clear all is not what it seems. When married couple Charlie and Matthew invite a new, mysterious woman named Rachel into their lives- everything begins to change. After a dinner at home, a stabbing unfolds, and someone takes immediate responsibility. The chapters flip back and forth between timelines and characters while the complicated chess pieces are moved. This is a twisty story that will have readers thinking they know what happened only to have the rug pulled out from under them. If you enjoy psychological mysteries you will enjoy this book. I would have liked a little more insight into Titus (Charlie and Matthew's son) with a chapter narrated by him and a little more focus on Charlie's past to help make a little more sense of the latter half of the book, however it is still a decent read-3.5 stars.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest feedback.

thanks to Harper 360 for providing an arc through netgalley!

overall, i enjoyed it. i like a good mystery and have read a lot of them. i feel thats why i was able to figure out the reveal pretty early on but still a solid read if mystery is your thing!

Fast-paced and entertaining. A recommended purchase for collections where thrillers and domestic noir are popular.

I really liked the premise of this story and the first couple of chapters seemed promising. I loved that it was an LGBTQ focused story as I don’t see a lot of that in the mystery/thriller category especially. But after that I felt that the story meandered a bit aimlessly and could have been much shorter. Maybe part of it was I didn’t like any of the characters at all so their rather senseless dallying with back story that didn’t seem important (I had worked out the big surprises long before the end). The story is about a dinner with four people and one of those people ends up dead. Matthew the perfect husband, Rachel the stranger, Titus the rebellious teen son, and Charlie Matthew’s husband. And when I say I didn’t like anyone, I mean there was no one in this story that I liked even a little bit. I. had to push myself hard to finish this one and over all was rather disappointed as I had been so excited when I read the description. Reading reviews I tend to be in the minority so it could just be me.

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.

Charlie and Matthew seem to have it all, especially if you look at Charlie's Instagram page. The perfect house, the perfect husband, and the perfect son. But someone is hiding a secret when the perfect stranger comes into their lives and changes everything. Who killed Mathew and why? What does Rachel know and why did she work her way into Charlie's and Titus' life?

When Rachel walks into their lives, Charlie is immediately on guard with how she so smoothly integrates herself in their lives and the lives of their friends from the the first time they meet. I found it odd how this "perfect couple" could let one person come in and ruin their lives in a couple of short months until I found out who was hiding what secrets. The last ¼ of the book picked up paced and started to tie everything together.

I rate this book as 2 🌟!

I'd like to say a huge thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for an ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

Charlie and Matthew are a young married couple living in an affluent neighborhood in London. One day, a mysterious young woman named Rachel wanders into their lives and becomes mysteriously and suspiciously wrapped up in every aspect. The book culminates in the murder of Matthew and a full-blown investigation into who committed the crime. Could it be the complete stranger, the devoted husband, or the unsuspecting son?

I’m not really sure what to even say about this book. Could I put this one down? Absolutely not. It had me on the edge of my seat for the entirety of the novel and I had no clue where it was going until the final moments of the book. I thought Walter did an excellent job carefully revealing the motivations of each character and crafting their stories with just a little information at a time. However, the twists this book took were just too far-fetched and unbelievable. I was trying so hard to follow along and then a character bearing no importance to the story would enter stage left and I’d be left trying to fit them into the story, most of the time ending up completely insignificant. I wanted to like this one and I want to recommend it but it’s ultimately just too confusing and convoluted.

Thank you to Harper 360 and NetGalley for this eARC in exchange for an honest review.

The appetizer :
Four people were here at the beginning of dinner.
Matthew — the perfect husband
Titus — the perfect son
Charlie — the only one who didn’t want Rachel at dinner
Rachel — the perfect stranger
Rachel holds a bloody knife as she calls the police.

The main dish :
This was slightly predictable if you read thrillers a lot, but if you enjoy a decent thriller with suspense. I would say you would like this.

The dessert :
The end was okay. Again, if you are into thrillers you could maybe have guessed what was going to happen or at least have an idea. Normally you expect something big from the ending that starts off so strong.

***3.75 Stars***

Four people are at dinner - Charlie, his husband, their son, and Rachel (a relative newcomer to the group) - and one ends up murdered.

That is the first page.

The following jumps back and forth to the year prior to the murder giving us their back stories and possible motives and to the immediate aftermath where the survivors are being interrogated by the police and how they are processing the death.

Charlie never liked Rachel. Everyone thinks he is being paranoid. Is he justified in his dislike? You’ll have to read to find out.

So many secrets. And what that does to you and your relationships.

I really liked this when I read it. This is my kind of beach read. Not to deep, but a also a page turner. Everything sort of works. I guess. I really liked what comes after the reveal. I thought that was super well done. Huge props for the LGBTQ representation.

But after I finished reading it and gave it some thought, I felt manipulated. Of course all books are manipulating you to an extent. But I didn’t like how I was manipulated here. I can’t really say more without spoiling the plot.

I would recommend this, but you can’t just think to hard about it.