The Hunting Party

A Novel

De: Lucy Foley

Narrado por: Gary Furlong, Elle Newlands, Morag Sims, Imogen Church, Moira Quirk

Everyone's invited...everyone's a suspect....

For fans of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a shivery, atmospheric, pause-resisting 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...and murder and mayhem ensue.

All of them are friends. One of them is a killer.

During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of 30-something friends from Oxford meets to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students 10 years ago. 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 30, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world.

Two days later, on New Year’s Day, one of them is dead.

The trip began innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to bear. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year’s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps.

Now, one of them is dead...and another of them did it.

Keep your friends close, the old adage goes. But just how close is too close?

©2019 Lucy Foley (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers

In a Dark, Dark wood?

Better story than A Dark Dark Wood but man, the similarities are lawsuit worthy. Kind of strange that it slipped through.

ponderous, tedious and rather improbable.

while the style of writing - a series of monologues - 61 in all - is quite novel, it makes the story quite irritatingly back-and-forth, ponderous and slow.

Such a predictable formula

Fantastic narration of a very predictable story filled with stereotypes from the 1980s Worth a listen just for the narration. But all of Foley’s books are the same: rich kid gets what’s coming to him simply because he’s rich.

Great Who Done It!

This is the second book of Lucy Foley's that my bookclub has read. The Guest list was such a big hit We decided to read the next in line. The Hunting party did night disappoint or give up its secrets until the very end! FOLEY is an excellent story teller. The only reason I dinged the performances one star was the male performances, in particular Doug's, were a bit droll and monotonous. But overall excellent story

Just ok

I’ve listened to other things by this author, and was intrigued by the premise of this book. I usually really enjoy this type of story - isolated group, murder, old tensions coming to a head - but for some reason this book just fell really flat. There was no sense of justice done for any of the characters. The worst ones got away with everything they did, and the only one that wasn’t totally boring was the one who was killed. The only subplot I was interested in was the game keeper and Heather, but there was very little satisfaction there either. I don’t need a big, sloppy love story, but just something to make me feel like I hadn’t completely wasted several hours of my life would have been nice.

lacking originality

too many people to follow. felt like it took half the book just to grasp the characters. while the twists were ok I certainly feel like I've read this before. who done its can be repetitive but they are also able to be much better than this.

good, but the theme has been done often, recently

The book is worth a credit, the performance cast makes listening quite enjoyable, but the story seems stale.

Decent but too predictable

This had all the elements of books are usually like… British narration, murder mystery, whodunit, interesting setting...but it was just too predictable. I think the author over hinted too many times and the pieces were too easy to put together early on. Still, enjoyed listening to it and it was decent. “One by One” by Ruth Ware was similar but much better in my opinion.

Oddly similar to The Guest List

Seems like the same storyline, just characters rearranged a bit. Good story, just too similar to her other work.

I really enjoyed this book and would recommend!

I really enjoyed this book.

My second one of Lucy’s that I’ve given a listen. I did workout through foreshadowing who the guest was that would turn up missing fairly early and got a little bummed because strangely I liked that guest, but even though I was 85% sure I had worked out the “who” I needed to keep reading to work out the “how” and what a journey that was.