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.
Classic crime meets Donna Tartt in this nerve-shredding domestic noir thriller that weaves a sprawling web of secrets around an opulent West London world and the dinner that ends in death.***
My husband Matthew died on an unseasonably chilly August day at dinner time. PROLOGUE, THE DAY OF THE MURDER
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(@HarperCollinsUK, 1 April 2021, ebook, 416 pages, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @OverDriveInc, # POPSUGARReadingChallenge, a book featuring a party)
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I enjoyed The Dinner Guest. It's the kind of thriller I love, with unreliable narrators and full of twists and turns. I liked the non-linear narrative as the book moves back and forth from now when Matthew has been murdered to the months leading up to the tragedy and Rachel's obsessive integration into their lives. I had so many questions reading this and no idea where the story would end up.
