What I like best is that most of them aren’t awful people, they’ve just grown and changed. Oh man, I just love old-friends dynamics in fiction, and even better when they’re old “friends,” like this crowd who don’t seem to really like each other any more. At the lodge, there’s a heavy snowstorm and almost no phone signal, and the isolation brings out buried secrets, evolving tensions and resentments, and murder.

The novel does the same thing - bouncing around between characters and timelines to hint at the murder that occurred and how it happened.Ī group of Oxford friends always meets up to spend New Years Eve together, and this year, they’ve booked a picturesque lodge in the Scottish highlands. That is why I rated this book a 4/5 because it kept me interested and surprised me at the end everything I hope for in a good mystery.I heard about Lucy Foley’s new novel The Hunting Party on the BritLit Podcast, and I just loved the two hosts discussing the book while trying not to reveal who the victim is. That being said, while there were some parts of The Hunting Party that I found predictable, I was definitely surprised by the way it ended and several of the twists along the way. I will be honest, it is hard to be truly surprised, in my opinion, by a truly wondering mystery nowadays. All 7 people have their own secrets they are hiding from the others and 6 of these friends are suspects.

What an amazing grab for the reader to pick up this book and start immediately reading! 7 friends embark on an NYE getaway/celebration at a remote cabin in the Scottish Highlands and one, we know from the beginning of the story, has been killed. When I read the back cover of The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley, I immediately felt this would be a fantastic book solely based on the line “One of these friends is a murder.

My great-grandmother used to love the show Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury and I can still remember watching many episodes with her after school and genuinely trying to answer the question “who done it?” I guess you could say I’ve always been a bit of a fan of a good murder mystery!

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