I was drawn in by the premise because even though I’m not usually one who reads mystery books, I thought this one could be my cup of tea.
Overall, I expected a lot more from this story. If you’re curious, you can also check out the playlist and fancast that were especially made for this novel. Hey guys, October is finally over, is it me or did this month last forever? Anyway, today I’m bringing you the review for our October book club pick, The Hunting Party, a murder mystery set in the very remote Scottish Highlands. 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. They arrive on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world. 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. 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.
Agent: Alexandra Machinist, ICM Partners. Foley spins her story skillfully through multiple narrators, and if she’s less sure-handed with character, this still makes for a cracklingly suspenseful story for a long winter’s night. Things start to go seriously wrong with the arrival of a blizzard that will soon cut off the 50,000-acre spread from the outside world.
At the Loch Corrin station, they’re met by Doug, the estate’s odd, though hunky, gamekeeper at Loch Corrin, they encounter unexpected additional guests: a pair of strange Icelandic backpackers. Tensions, sexual and otherwise, first flare during the lengthy, alcohol-lubricated train trip from London on December 30, fanned by charismatic, capricious Miranda-the golden girl most men want to be with and more than a few women long to become. Nine close friends, four of them couples, gather for their extravagant annual New Year’s getaway-this time at Loch Corrin, a remote estate in the Scottish Highlands-a decade after most of them graduated from Oxford. Historical novelist Foley ( The Invitation) makes an auspicious thriller debut.
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