The characters, too, feel like people out of a Christie or Ware novel, as they are a group of friends who have known each other for years, but conflicts, secrets, and resentments are starting to boil over.
Throw in a harsh snowy winter and you get an even harder place to escape should you need to. The setting itself, in a remote lodge area in the Scottish Wilderness, is the perfect backdrop for a story like this it’s isolated, it’s haunting, and the vast wilderness feels like a cage when it comes down to it. I think that the comparison to both Ruth Ware and Agatha Christie is spot on. I don’t like the weather that comes with summer, so a story set during colder months was exactly what I needed. So while it took me a little while to get to “The Hunting Party” by Lucy Foley, I felt like I saved it for the exact right time. There’s something about the snow and cold that really gets a plot going. Though we’re pretty much now fully into summer here in Minnesota, to me one of the best seasons for a tangled mystery to take place is the wintertime. Review: Thank you to William Morrow for sending me an ARC of this novel! Keep your friends close, the old adage goes. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year’s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps.
But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to bear. The trip began innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. Two days later, on New Year’s Day, one of them is dead. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands-the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves. They arrive on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world. One of them is a killer.ĭuring the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. and murder and mayhem ensue.Īll of them are friends. Where Did I Get This Book: The publisher sent me an ARC.īook Description: For fans of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a shivery, atmospheric, page-turning novel of psychological suspense in the tradition of Agatha Christie, in which a group of old college friends are snowed in at a hunting lodge. Publishing Info: William Morrow, February 2019
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