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The Dinner Guest: The absolutely gripping Sunday Times bestseller with a breathtaking twist

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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?

Gabriela Ybarra was born into one of the most prominent Basque political families. Her grandfather Javier fought for the Spanish Nationaists in the civil war and was mayor in the 1960s. In 1977 he was kidnapped by the Basque separatist group ETA from his home and assassinated when his family couldn't come up with the ridiculously high ransom demanded. The family continued to have threats made against them for the next thirty years with a bomb once sent to her father in 2002, who had to have a bodyguard continually by his side. The characters are all vile, in a word, I cant think of a single redeeming feature from any one of them, however the book wouldn’t be as it is intended if there was even a chink of decency in one of them, ‘Titus’ as well as having an objectionable name has to be one of the most obnoxious 15 year old’s ever to grace a book This is the third episode to focus on the parents, the second being " Horrid Henry Goes to Work" and " Horrid Henry's Hike" For me the first part – about a third of the book – was the most interesting part. The Ybarra family is highly prominent in Spain although Gabriela’s branch is not as affluent as the one associated with one of the top local banks. Her account is very detached and is more a product of her research on the assassination conducted as an adult than of her own memories or those of her father, who lived through the kidnap and the killing. Although the report will feel very close to a Spanish reader, it however remains frustratingly sketchy. What I will say, is that this book was VERY SUSPENSEFUL, and I was completely STUMPED well past the 50% point! More Questions than Answers for MOST of the book!It opens with a conundrum. Four people sit down for a meal and one of them is stabbed to death, with the one holding the knife confessing to the murder. But did the confessor do it, or was it one of the other two – or is it possible there’s another answer? They appeared to friends to be a happy family. Both Charlie and Matthew were devoted to Matthew's adopted teenaged son, Titus. A chance encounter with a stranger, Rachel, in a bookstore leads to turmoil and trouble. Matthew invites Rachel to his book club, attended by wealthy people from old school money. Charlie feels very uneasy about this, although he has never attended the meetings, and makes it clear to Matthew that the invitation is a mistake. Aunque lo que verdaderamente me chirría (más por no verlo que por otra At the dinner, Stan makes it clear he wants to withdraw from the gubernatorial race and hold a press conference about the ATM incident, afterwards accompanying his son to the police. A bitter argument ensues between Stan on one side with turning his son over to the police, and Claire and Katelyn on the other who want to protect their children and their futures as well as their family's image and reputation, with Paul sitting quietly away from the table. Katelyn manages to persuade Stan to hold off on his plan to report Michael. In the episode, the salmon burns after Henry soaks everyone (apart from Mr Mossy and including himself) with the champagne bottle. In the book, it burns after Henry shows the guests his new karate moves, as the champagne bottle scene does not occur in the story.

Then Matthew is stabbed to death at the Allerton-Jones' dinner table, and a young woman named Rachel calls the police and admits to the murder. However, we're immediately told that she didn't do it. Matthew, an avid reader and Charlie met Rachel at a bookstore, and Matthew ended up inviting Rachel, a total stranger to Matthew’s book club. Charlie didn’t want her at the book club, but Matthew wouldn’t listen. 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.

My mother wasn’t three paragraphs long, or six. My mother was warmth and presence. Goodness and light. At first, Rachel appears to have stumbled into the idyllic life of Matthew and Charlie and their son Titus, but there is a feeling of unease when the closeness to Titus becomes apparent and Rachel manages to work her way into their lives, turning up when least expected, joining the coveted book club and then moving into an apartment belonging to Charlie’s mother. The stories about ‘La ETA’ and my grandfather’s killing were mixed with others that my father told me about Pompeii, Degas’s ballerinas, Darío’s ‘The princess is sad’ poem, and Max Ernst’s bird men. The big reveal and its aftermath aren't quite credible to me. I also have trouble believing how lightning fast Rachel ascended in society under the auspices of Charlie's godmother. I simply don't think this would happen in real life. Thank you to HarperCollins UK/One More Chapter and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Have you ever read a book in which none of the characters were likeable? This is one of those books. Honestly, all of the characters are fairly awful, selfish people with a litany of faults and you’ll spend half the book wanting them to get their comeuppance. Especially the main two characters who takes turns in voicing the story, Charlie and Rachel. I didn’t like either of them from the beginning.In the book, Dad cooks salmon wrapped in pastry with lime and ginger. In the episode, he just cooks salmon with lime and ginger. I will say that I did not find the revelation of the killer at all surprising, partly because the author does such a great job painting them as an obvious creeper from the start. But also, there’s more than one obvious creeper in this story...or maybe they all are?...so I don’t think I’ve given anything away here.

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.The Dinner Guest by B. P. Walter is an LGBTQ+ mystery, thriller novel which has 4 people having dinner one evening and one would never leave the place. Matthew: the perfect husband. Titus: the perfect son. Charlie: the perfect illusion. Rachel: the perfect stranger. The dinner guests are Charlie and his husband Matthew, Titus (Charlie and Matthew's adopted son), and Rachel, "a perfect stranger", new to the couple's book club. He dudado muchísimo en cómo puntuar este libro, y de alguna manera me fastidia no ponerle cuatro estrellas, pero hay cosas que me han descolocado un poco. Intriguing story. I agree with the other reviewers, this one is best going in blind and not knowing too much about the plot. You know from the beginning that someone is killed and someone takes the blame. What you don't know is--who actually committed the murder (was it a murder?) and why?

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