![]() ![]() Keep your friends close, the old adage goes. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year’s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps. When the estate manager and groundskeeper find one of the guests the death is anything but an accident. But, tensions run deep, and everyone has dark secrets. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to bear. The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley An annual getaway in the Scottish Highlands, nine friends gather for a New Year’s weekend. 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. The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley is a 2019 mystery novel about a murder in the Scottish Highlands. 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. ![]()
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