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The Ninth Guest
Tess Little
The Ninth Guest
Synopsis
We believed he had died from an overdose. There was no reason to suspect otherwise . . .
When Elspeth is invited to her ex-husband Richard's fiftieth birthday party, she's expecting a star-studded event for the famous British film director, full of A-listers and hangers-on. But she arrives to find just seven other carefully selected guests in attendance.
A surreal evening ensues, orchestrated by the charming yet manipulative host, culminating in what will surely become a night to remember . . .
Because by morning, Richard will be dead, and every guest a suspect.
(Previously published as The Octopus)
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Tess Little
Tess Little is a writer, historian, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
She was born in Norwich and studied history at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and the MA in Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia. She was previously an Examination Fellow at All Souls, where she completed a doctorate on 1970s feminist activism in the UK, US, and France.
Her short stories and non-fiction have appeared in various places, including Words And Women: Two, The Mays Anthology, The Belleville Park Pages, The White Review, and on posters outside a London tube station.
Her debut novel was published in October 2021 as The Last Guest (North America, Ballantine Books) and The Ninth Guest (UK, Hodder & Stoughton); it was first published in the UK as The Octopus.