The Dinner Party: Perfect date or nightmare invitation? Prepare to be gripped by Nina Manning's compelling psychological thriller

by Nina Manning, Helen Keeley (Reader), Tom Allenby (Reader)

Audio CD

Published March 16, 2025

About the author

Nina Manning began her career in the catering industry. She has worked as a private chef cooking for royalty and TV personalities.

She has a degree in Psychology and has three books published with Boldwood: The Daughter In Law, The Guilty Wife and The House Mate.
Her fourth Psychological thriller is published in Spring 2021.

Nina is a voracious reader of many genres, is the founding member of a long standing book club and the founder and co-host of a book podcast called Sniffing The Pages.

She is a mother to three young children so when she is not writing or reading she can usually be found scaling a soft play tower or romping in the woods with the family and her chocolate Labrador.

Reviews

[Nicky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Potential was there but I feel the ending was a big let down. The whole mother/daughter scenario was so implausible. I wondered at first if something had skipped in the audiobook and I’d missed something as it didn’t make sense, same with Ruby. How did he have that power over them, when they all had the ability to keep their distance? It was left unexplained.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 rounded up. Had potential but the ending fell short. It felt a little like a modern “Rebecca” knockoff.

[Tish Arellano · Rating 2 out of 5]

Giving one extra star because I hate read it to the end instead of DNF. This story made no logical sense and the characters were all unlikeable.

Would not recommend at all.