Everyone in the Group Chat Dies
The addictive serial killer thriller that has everyone laughing
Published on 13. March 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-83793-031-9 (ISBN)
Description
'Funny, twisty, bloodthirsty' JULIE MAE COHEN 'An absolute joy of a thriller' SARAH BONNER
Kirby Cornell needs a break from everything:
- Her crumbling flat in the sleepy town of Crowhurst (famous for its award-winning sausage rolls and a second-rate serial killer from the 90s).
- Her dead-end job.
- Her sleazy landlord.
- Her slobbish housemates.
- And, most of all, the terrible thing they did.
Luckily, that hasn't caught up with her just yet. Until a new message on their old group chat pops up:
Everyone in the group chat will die.
It's the first text her ex-flatmate and social-media sleuth Esme has sent for ages, but that's not the really weird thing.
The really weird thing is, Esme died twelve months ago...
Don't miss the new laugh-out-loud thriller from L.M. Chilton, Everyone in the Group Chat Dies - a murder mystery that fuses the flatmate comedy of Friends with the serial-killer thrills of I Know What You Did Last Summer.
'With biting, mordant humor, Chilton sends readers on a serial killer hunt for our disassociated, true-crime-obsessed social media age.' ASHLEY WINSTEAD, bestselling author of In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
'Darkly humorous and suspenseful... kept me turning the pages late into the night.' JOANNA WALLACE, author of You'd Look Better as a Ghost
'A lovely escape... Features a twist that I never saw coming' TASHA CORYELL, author of Love Letters to a Serial Killer
'A funny, inventive murder mystery that is a real page turner. Fabulous!' VICTORIA DOWD, author of The Smart Woman's Guide to Murder
Praise for L.M. Chilton:
'Kept me guessing and was so fun to read' BRITNEY SPEARS
'Murderously clever!' RUPERT HOLMES
'Utterly compelling and laugh-out-loud funny' KATY BRENT
'Rarely is murder so much fun!' RACHEL WOLF
'Hilariously dark' PLATINUM
'Humour doesn't always sit well with crime but Chilton has found the sweet spot' SUSSEX LIFE
Kirby Cornell needs a break from everything:
- Her crumbling flat in the sleepy town of Crowhurst (famous for its award-winning sausage rolls and a second-rate serial killer from the 90s).
- Her dead-end job.
- Her sleazy landlord.
- Her slobbish housemates.
- And, most of all, the terrible thing they did.
Luckily, that hasn't caught up with her just yet. Until a new message on their old group chat pops up:
Everyone in the group chat will die.
It's the first text her ex-flatmate and social-media sleuth Esme has sent for ages, but that's not the really weird thing.
The really weird thing is, Esme died twelve months ago...
Don't miss the new laugh-out-loud thriller from L.M. Chilton, Everyone in the Group Chat Dies - a murder mystery that fuses the flatmate comedy of Friends with the serial-killer thrills of I Know What You Did Last Summer.
'With biting, mordant humor, Chilton sends readers on a serial killer hunt for our disassociated, true-crime-obsessed social media age.' ASHLEY WINSTEAD, bestselling author of In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
'Darkly humorous and suspenseful... kept me turning the pages late into the night.' JOANNA WALLACE, author of You'd Look Better as a Ghost
'A lovely escape... Features a twist that I never saw coming' TASHA CORYELL, author of Love Letters to a Serial Killer
'A funny, inventive murder mystery that is a real page turner. Fabulous!' VICTORIA DOWD, author of The Smart Woman's Guide to Murder
Praise for L.M. Chilton:
'Kept me guessing and was so fun to read' BRITNEY SPEARS
'Murderously clever!' RUPERT HOLMES
'Utterly compelling and laugh-out-loud funny' KATY BRENT
'Rarely is murder so much fun!' RACHEL WOLF
'Hilariously dark' PLATINUM
'Humour doesn't always sit well with crime but Chilton has found the sweet spot' SUSSEX LIFE
Reviews / Votes
'With biting, mordant humor, Chilton sends readers on a serial killer hunt for our disassociated, true-crime-obsessed social media age. I laughed out loud, I gasped at twists, and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this ride. Highly recommend!' * Ashley Winstead, bestselling author of In My Dreams I Hold a Knife * 'This novel does exactly what it says on the tin! A funny, twisty, bloodthirsty murder mystery. Great fun!' * Julie Mae Cohen, author of Bad Men * Ingenious mixture of comic-psychological thriller and serial killer mystery... niftily blends crime elements with satire and sitcom-like comedy * Sunday Times * One of my favourite-ever films is Hot Fuzz, and we're in the same wryly humorous rural dystopia here... An enjoyable contemporary comedy crime caper * Daily Mail * [A] laugh-out-loud thriller... that blends roommate antics with chilling suspense * Cosmopolitan, Best New Books Out In March * Packed with left-field plot twists, modern pop culture refrences and black humour, this thriller zips along. Original and lots of fun * The Sun * A dark but very funny serial-killer thriller * Heat, 5* * 'A darkly humorous and suspenseful tale that masterfully intertwines modern technology with classic thriller elements. L.M. Chilton delivers a compelling narrative that kept me turning the pages late into the night. Fabulous!' * Joanna Wallace, author of You'd Look Better as a Ghost * 'A funny, inventive murder mystery that is a real page turner. Fabulous!' * Victoria Dowd, author of The Smart Woman's Guide to Murder * 'A lovely escape... Features a twist that I never saw coming' * Tasha Coryell, author of Love Letters to a Serial Killer * 'Everyone in the Group Chat Dies starts with the brilliant premise of receiving WhatsApp messages from a corpse. It's twisty, pacy and devilishly funny. I loved it.' * Katie Marsh, author of How Not to Murder Your Ex * 'Everyone in the Group Chat Dies is an absolute joy of a thriller: fast paced, full of suspense, and laugh out loud funny. L.M. Chilton provides a deft skewering of flatmate culture and revels in the true horror of the group chat.' * Sarah Bonner, author of Her Perfect Twin * Must read... a book to cancel plans for * Closer * A brilliantly dark but funny read * Bella * A laugh out loud read * That's Life * Dark and funny... a twisty whodunnit * Woman's Own * This gripping thriller from the author of Don't Swipe Right is full of twists and turns, and comes together beautifully * Booksellers Circle * Darkly funny * Psychologies * This excellent murder mystery is darkly funny * Fabulous (The Sun on Sunday) * Chilton knows how to spring some nice twists, alongside lots of well set-up jokes. * Morning Star *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
264 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83793-031-9 (9781837930319)
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Everyone in the Group Chat Dies
The Addictive Serial Killer Thriller That Has Everyone Laughing
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L.M. Chilton is a journalist with fifteen years' experience working on TV shows for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 in the UK, as well as writing columns for magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Glamour, and reporting for national newspapers across the world, everywhere from Doncaster to Delhi. He lives in London, procrastinating. Don't Swipe Right, his debut novel, was published by Head of Zeus in 2023.