Everyone in the Group Chat Dies
A Novel
Gallery/Scout Press · Print & ebook · December 9, 2025
From the breakout author of Swiped comes a compulsively readable, surprisingly funny, and genuinely thrilling pageturner about a TikTok true crime investigator, a ’90s serial killer that may not be as dead as everyone would like, a text thread from hell, and long buried secrets that just won’t stay in the grave where they belong.
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- Who it’s for
- A playful thriller blends group-chat dread, buried secrets, and serial-killer chills.
- Themes
- Serial-killer suspense, Buried secrets, Murder mystery
- Pacing
- Fast
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From the breakout author of Swiped comes a compulsively readable, surprisingly funny, and genuinely thrilling pageturner about a TikTok true crime investigator, a ’90s serial killer that may not be as dead as everyone would like, a text thread from hell, and long buried secrets that just won’t stay in the grave where they belong.
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Kirby Cornell needs a break from everything: - Her crumbling apartment in the sleepy town of Crowhurst (famous for its bucolic countryside and a second-rate serial killer from the ’90s). - Her dead-end job. - Her sleazy landlord - Her messy roommates. - And, most of all, the terrible thing they all 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 dies. It’s the first text her ex-roommate 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 comedy of Friends with the serial killer thrills of I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Dark Laughs, Bad Texts
A playful thriller blends group-chat dread, buried secrets, and serial-killer chills.
Come here for
- A sharp mix of comedy and murder-mystery tension
- The unnerving afterlife of a message from a dead roommate
Expect
- A brisk, funny page-turner with a dark edge
- Small-town secrets and a group chat that spells trouble
Where it sits
| Suspense | 41% |
|---|---|
| Dark Humor | 28% |
| Mystery | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Amateur Sleuths
- Suspense
- Crime Fiction
- Authors
- L.M. Chilton
- Publisher
- Gallery/Scout Press
- Published
- December 9, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Serial-killer suspense · Buried secrets · Murder mystery
- Reading lane
- Amateur Sleuths