by Fiona Sherlock
SYNOPSIS
When Lady Anderson invites five guests to her apartment in Bruton Square, Mayfair, none of the guests know why they have been summoned. And it isn't long before dinner turns DEADLY. From the author of Twelve Motives for Murder comes another brilliant immersive murder mystery.
Supper for Six . . . but murder is on the menu
The mystery of Bruton Square has never been solved. On that infamous night in 1977, six strangers were invited for dinner at Lady Sybil Anderson's Mayfair apartment. Only five made it out alive.
Welcome to Supper for Six, the true crime podcast. I'm your host, Felix.
Together, we'll uncover what really happened that night . . . Let's dig in.
REVIEW
A group of Lady Anderson's acquaintances are invited over to her apartment in Mayfair, which on the surface seems like a reasonably normal event. However, none of the five people knew that they had been actually been invited to attend a dinner party with other guests - including a private investigator. Already suspicious of Sybil's reasons for this mystery party, things take a sinister turn and not everyone makes it out alive. Felix, who was a rookie reporter at the time of the tragedy in 1977, investigated the events but never solved the mystery. Still desperate to find answers, forty-five years later, he hosts a true crime podcast set on exposing the truth of that bizarre dinner party once and for all.
Supper For Six was a book that I hadn't heard a lot about and I hadn't read the previous book by the author Fiona Sherlock. I went into this having no idea what to expect but I had the best surprise - this book combines all of my favourite tropes and was an intriguing and entertaining murder mystery. A dual-timeline narrative split between the dinner party in 1977 and the present day, Felix tells the story of what really happened via his podcast using a combination of live interviews and tapes to unravel the mystery.
This type of epistolary crime novel is just my absolute favourite style. The tapes Felix has acquired are set out as transcripts and it honestly feels like you are reading about a real-life case. This, along with the fact that the book features a true-crime podcast and had a vintage, 'Golden-Age' feel from the sections set in the 1970s, meant that it really did have everything I would look for in crime fiction. I will now definitely be going back to read the first novel featuring private investigator Elizabeth Chalice, Twelve Motives for Murder.
Thanks to Hodder Books - @HodderBooks & Fiona Sherlock @FionaSherlock for the opportunity to read and review.
Publisher: Hodder Books Genre: Thriller / Cosy Crime / Mystery
ISBN: 978-1529360042
Pages: 336pp
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