When the snow falls heavily one New Years, eleven friends and the staff running the lodge and a rogue Icelandic couple. During 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.

Loch Corrin is an escape, hidden away up in the Scottish Highlands. Keep your friends close, the old adage says. The Hunting Party is everywhere it’s in shop fronts, it’s on the tube, it’s Waterstones Thriller Of The Month. Two days later, on New Year’s Day, one of them is dead. .

Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year’s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps, just as a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world. The Hunting Party: The Sunday Times and New York Times global best seller, a gripping Christmas mystery from the No 1 bestselling author of The Guest List Kindle Edition by Lucy Foley (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 32,651 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to bear. The trip begins innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. THE GUEST LIST is a delectable blend of Agatha Christie inspiration and modern-day psychological suspense. 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. British author Lucy Foley has made a name for herself with two suspense novels that do exactly that, the newest of which will release in the US this summer. “My favorite kind of whodunit, kept me guessing all the way through, and reminiscent of Agatha Christie at her best - with an extra dose of acid.” - Alex Michaelides, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Silent PatientĮveryone's invited.everyone's a suspect.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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