The Hunting Party is her debut crime novel, inspired by a particularly remote spot in Scotland that fired. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Lucy Foley studied English Literature at Durham and UCL universities and worked for several years as a fiction editor in the publishing industry, before leaving to write full-time. But how close is too close? DON'T BE LEFT OUT. Keep your friends close, the old adage says. 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. 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.

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. A gripping read full of jealousy and thinly veiled threats. 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. We flash back and forth between past and present and different characters POVs.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER '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 Patient From the author of the Reese Witherspoon book club pick The Guest List Everyone's invited.everyone's a suspect.

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