Book Review - Everyone In The Group Chat Dies by L. M. Chilton - #HolidayReading Tenerife

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Title: Everyone In The Group Chat Dies

Author: L. M. Chilton

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Head of Zeus

Publication Date: 13th March 2025

Rating: 4 Stars

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.

Well this was highly enjoyable, and amazingly I didn't manage to predict the final outcome. 

Told in two timelines, the previous year and current year, we get to learn the truth about various happenings in this small fairly sleepy town. 

Kirby and her flatmates are central to everything, although I was getting Dylan and Dave confused at times (2 D names in the same flat share leads to that!), it certainly made for an interesting read. 

There are some really odd dynamics at play, and Kirby is a bit of a bumbling, impulsive sort of new internet detective, who is trying to find Esme in the previous year time line, and find out why she is getting messages from Esme in the current time line. 

What very soon becomes apparent is that if you were flatmates with Kirby, your life may be over sooner than you think. 

This was an enjoyable story, and gave me a good indication that I'm likely to be happy to read more from the author in the future too. 

Thank you to Head of Zeus and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.