Résultats pour "The Dinner" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Choose from over 20 possible endings in this Pick Your Poison Adventure story! You're broke. You have no way to pay your rent, and you're about to be evicted. Fortunately, your friend has offered you a job working as a waitress at a dinner party . . . at an isolated mansion way out on Peyton's...

A summer's evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse - the banality of work, the triviality of holidays. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son.

'A profoundly confronting novel which consumed me whole... tender, astonishing and unflinching' Lucy Rose, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Lamb I remember everything that happened in those three minutes at the beginning of the evening, him and me in the kitchen. That, and what happened...

'Dark, compelling, and wickedly smart ... deliciously twisted thriller' Lisa Jewell, author of None of This is True 'By turns gory, shocking, macabre and often very funny, you won't be able to put it down' Alex Michaelides, author of The Silent Patient As Dante and his friends leave their small...

Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now as...

Seven guests. Three courses. One evening they'll never forget… Seven strangers meet at Serendipity's for an anonymously hosted dinner party. As the evening reaches its close, small black envelopes are placed in front of the diners… revealing the age at which each will die. Spooked, but not...

The internationally acclaimed #1 bestselling thriller, now in English. This program features multicast narration. "This is one creepy tale of cannibalism, made palatable by terrific narrators who capture the characters and the urgency of the plot." — Kirkus “This rollercoaster of a novel is...

Cleo is hired by the housekeeper at a Mayfair residence after the police rule the sudden death of the butler was the result of natural causes. Not convinced by the verdict, she wants Cleo to prove foul play was involved. Considering he was acting mysteriously around some of the guests, and they were equally mysterious when they saw him, murder is a possibility. When the investigation leads Cleo to another decades-old murder and the sudden disappearance of the primary suspect, she’s even more determined to uncover the truth.

Alte Freunde. Neue Lügen. Mörderische Wahrheit. Für ein Wiedersehen laden Jonathan und seine Verlobte Lotta die alte Freundesgruppe in ein abgelegenes Restaurant in der Eifel ein. Nur ein Platz bleibt leer: Vor fünf Jahren ist ihre Freundin Maria spurlos in der Nacht verschwunden. Um der alten Zeiten willen beginnen die Freunde ein Krimi-Dinner. Doch das Spiel verschmilzt rasch mit der Realität. Verstörende Erinnerungen kommen hoch und werfen Fragen auf: Wer lügt für seine Rolle, wer für sich selbst? Während draußen ein Sturm aufzieht, eskaliert das Spiel. Ist Maria noch am Leben?

When his loving wife, Betty, plans a trip to Ireland for Fatty O’Leary’s 40th birthday things go wrong almost immediately: the seats in economy class on the plane are too small; Irish bathroom furniture is not as commodious as he'd have liked. And all the time Fatty must put up with the unthinking cruelty of strangers.

Murder is a dish best served ice cold... In the idyllic, small town of Dewstow, Margery and Clementine are eagerly awaiting retirement from their work on the front-line serving meals to the students at Summerview secondary school. Their peaceful life is shattered when their kitchen manager is found dead in the school’s walk-in freezer. The police are adamant that it’s an open-and-shut case of accidental death. But Margery and Clementine are convinced that something more sinister is afoot and take it upon themselves to investigate.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Immensely gripping…Stayed up till past 2am to finish this’ Sophie Hannah 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...

For fans of Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Assembly, an intimate and darkly propulsive story told over the course of a dinner party, from its careful preparation through its explosive, irrevocable finish, about the tensions of love and autonomy, grief and female rage, and the surprising moments...

The truth isn't the only thing that's dead and buried... Following recent changes to Dewstow's local police force, The Dinner Lady Detectives, Margery and Clementine Butcher-Baker have been warned off interfering in investigations. When a body is found under the school playground during building renovations, they have no intention of getting involved. In need of money for their new website, the pair agrees to help Mrs Redburn, who suspects her husband of infidelity. But when their investigation sends them stumbling into the middle of the playground mystery, it becomes impossible for them to stay out of the police's way.

From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Olivie Blake, this is a powerful and darkly fun novel about ambition, lust and eating your fill – as wealthy moms and sorority girls practice a sinister new wellness trend. ‘Deliciously twisted and lipstick-stained, Girl Dinner serves up a...

A deliciously black satirical comedy about the dinner party from hell. The fastidious host, Paige, decides to throw a dinner party in honour of her husband, Lars, who is celebrating the success of his pop psychology book, Beyond Belief. She carefully plans a surprise menu that will mark the occasion and anxiously checks with the waiter she has employed to make sure that everything is perfectly prepared. Her lucky guests include a postfeminist vegetarian artist, a distinguished microbiologist, a TV journalist and an uninvited guest who ends up staying for dinner.

Cloaked strangers and danger abound... When dinner ladies and amateur sleuths Margery and Clementine Butcher-Baker embark on an evening walk after another busy half-term at Summerview Secondary School, they discover the body of missing maths teacher Mr Weaver. Marked with a mysterious symbol...

A contemporary short story with a dash of humour set in inner Sydney. It’s raining cats and dogs, and Rick is being jabbed by the hot needle of panic. He’s running late now after dashing out to get last minute dessert for the crucial dinner party tonight. Friday night and in this fashionable inner-city suburb, it’s easier for a straight White male to win a Premier’s arts prize than it is to find a free space. But it’s okay, as a last resort Rick can park across his own driveway blocking in the boss’ car. Except that he can’t, can he? 

Mitten in der glanzvollen Londoner Ballsaison schlägt ein Mörder zu und niemand scheint vor Verdacht sicher. Der zweite Fall für Miss Harrington und Robert Kurland, im London des 19. Jahrhunderts Für Lucy und Anna Harrington geht mit der Einladung nach London ein lang gehegter Traum in...

Three courses. Seven guests. One card. It's a deadly evening they'll never forget. Seven strangers meet for an anonymously hosted dinner party. As the evening winds down, seven cards appear, one in front of each of the guests. On the card is a number—the age at which they will die. Thinking it...