Dripping with atmosphere, THE HUNTING PARTY is Lucy Foley's hotly-anticipated crime debut. A razor-sharp and chilling Highland murder mystery. . .
Everyone's invited. Everyone's a suspect.
Nine friends ring in the New Year in the remote Scottish Highlands.
As the curtain falls on another year, the celebrations begin.
The next 48 hours see the friends catching up, reminiscing over past stories, scratching old wounds. . . And guarding friendship-destroying secrets.
The clock has barely struck 12 when a broken body is found in the snow.
Not an accident - a murder among friends.
When a thick blizzard descends, the group are trapped.
No-one can get in. And no-one can get out.
Not even the killer.
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[I see a man coming through the falling snow](HarperCollins, 24 January 2019, ebook, 400 pages, ARC from publisher via NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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This is my first time reading the author. I really loved The Hunting Party. I thought the setting was great. What better place for a murder than a remote lodge in the wilderness of the Highlands? The setting is perfectly rendered, remote, beautiful and just a tad unsettling especially as the friends are mostly alone except for the Lodge's staff and two other guests. The atmosphere gets even more isolated when the weather takes a bad turn. The Hunting Party has great atmosphere. I was gripped from the first page. The chapters alternate between the viewpoints of the friends. This structure works really well. You get to know the characters very well and also get different perspectives on what's happening. I had no idea who the killer was and when this is revealed in the last few shocking chapters I was taken completely by surprise.