Dante, Jun, and Farah will be love interests to the main character
As seen in Chapter 1 of the prequel, The Deadliest Gambit, these three characters have completely new designs, which is usually a sign that the character in question is a love interest. This would also fit the Two Guys and a Girl format of love interests for murder mystery books (as seen in Veil of Secretsnote , The Unexpected Heiress, and Murder at Homecoming).- Confirmed.
Steve will be a Red Herring
So far, Steve is the only character that has acted rude and hostile towards Finn, while the others at least act civil. Because of his behavior, the story could spend a couple chapters making players think he's the killer, only for him to be a red herring, maybe even becoming another victim. Nick planned the whole thing as a Secret Test of Character for Finn
The way Nick talks in the prequel and the first chapter suggests that he may have been suicidal before his death, mentioning about how "it will be over soon", nobody can know what I'm going through", and other similar phrases. Knowing he was going to die anyway, he may have asked one of his friends to kill him ahead of time and planned the murder mystery party as a way to get all of his friends together one last time. With the suggestion in Chapter 3 that it might have been an Inheritance Murder, it's possible that Nick planned the murder mystery party to test Finn's detective skills; he knows they're a murder mystery author and wanted to see if they could apply those skills in a real-life setting, maybe even leaving everything to them if they pass the test (the will seen in Chapter 3note might be a decoy for this reason). The killer did not read Finn's murder mystery novels
Because if they did, they would know that a typed suicide note (as was the case with Nick's murder) would clue Finn in on Nick's death not being a suicide, since the same tactic was used in one of their murder mystery novels. Nick was secretly in love with Finn
They've been established to have been best friends for a long time, and Nick planned to give away his entire fortune after being inspired by Finn, which seems like something he would only do if he had some kind of feelings for them.