Hunting Party (Foley) - Book Reviews

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Lucy Foley proves that the traditional country-house murder formula… can still work brilliantly.… Superb.
Times (UK)


Foley excels at the small details that make up a person… builds the tension cleverly and creepily, underlining the point that old friends aren’t always the best.
Observer (UK)


A claustrophobic, compulsive read.
Tatler (UK)


Like a deliciously drawn out game of Clue, this novel brings together a group of Oxford friends at a remote Scottish highlands estate for the Christmas holidays.…Foley paints such a vivid hunting-lodge-and-lochs setting that you’ll immediately be booking your own highland fling, clandestine killers or no.
National Geographic


A tense, perfectly paced murder mystery.
People


A great update on the classic country house murder… brilliantly builds the tension.
Good Housekeeping


Historical novelist Foley makes an auspicious thriller debut.… 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.
Publishers Weekly


In her first crime novel, Foley takes a group of thirtyish Oxford graduates who celebrate New Year's Eve together to a dreamily remote estate in the Scottish Highlands. They're snowed in by a blizzard of historic proportions, and by New Year's one of them lies dead.
Library Journal


Anyone who’s grown apart from old friends will recognize the yearning depicted here to make everything as it was.… Readers are left wondering until the end which guest has died as well as who the killer is; they will be well rewarded by the story’s ending.
Booklist


[T]old in flashbacks from several different characters' perspectives, each with a different… dark secret…, as is classic in this form of the whodunit.… Plot, reasonably clever. Setting, nicely done. Characters, two-dimensional stereotypes, but you can't have everything.
Kirkus Reviews