Took me longer than planned to get round to but I thoroughly enjoyed this. It was thrilling and mysterious and a super good read!

Great setting and well-paced. This is an enjoyable Agatha Christie style murder mystery set in a hunting lodge over New Years. The characters can at times seem a bit stock and one dimensional but plot is all here and this is a read that will keep the pages turning.

I read this in one sitting. It honestly kept me hooked from the first page to the last. When a group of university friends gather in a remote property what could possibly go wrong? In this book it was evident that everything could go wrong in the most drastic of ways. It honestly kept me on tenterhooks throughout. An utterly brilliant read.

This is the kind of book that needs to be read in one sitting - a single greedy, breathless, nail-biting, heart-racing serving of delicious tension, suspense and suspicion. I loved the twist on the usual whodunit as it's not till near the end of the story that you find out who they dunit to! The characters are all nicely despicable, each with motives aplenty to top any/all of the others so there's plenty of very enjoyable guesswork to be had here with lots of juicy red herrings. The pacing is spot on, the tension and suspense building really well and secrets revealing themselves in a slow but satisfying manner. A really engrossing read - lots of fun!

Sorry but I struggled with this and could not get into it at all. It is rare for me not to finish a book, but this one defeated me!

I had to put this book down in April because Uni got in the way but I really enjoyed reading this. It's the kind of book that keeps you on your toes and you'll totally understand this if you're part of a big group of friends, you're not always going to get on. The ending surprised me and just goes to show that things are not always as they seem.

A group of old college friends make their way up to the Scottish Highlands for a New Year break. They have booked a lodge situated on an isolated estate where, if the weather turns there is no way in or out. When a blizzard arrives, they are all sealed off from the outside world. One of the friends disappears and is found dead…..but which one of the remaining friends is the killer?

I was really looking forward to reading this book. I’d seen a lot of fellow readers raving about it and it received a lot of hype on release. The cover is fabulous and really striking with the colours and the outline of a deer’s head. The storyline sounded exciting and tantamount to a classic “whodunit” Dare I say it, it also came across as a plot worthy of being on the big screen!

The group of friends had all known each other since their college days. Over the years, they have all changed and the more intimate friendships of the group have also swapped and changed as time has moved on. I don’t think many of them really like each other, although on first glances they are all good friends, and I also don’t think any of them are particularly likeable characters to the reader either. The book began well with the journey up to Scotland and arriving at the lodge, and I have to admit that the description of the Scottish Highlands was fabulous! The chapters were told from the perspectives of different characters and also from before New Year’s Eve and after. Whilst the chapters were clearly marked, I found it slightly confusing having to keep up with the different characters and the different dates at the same time!

We aren’t told which one of the friends goes missing, and subsequently found dead, until much later on in the book. I didn’t work out who it was until it was revealed as it could have been one of many! I think I would have preferred to know who was dead right from the offset so I could have tried to work out who had killed them and why. By not revealing who was dead did though hold the suspense for a lot longer throughout the book.

I didn’t not enjoy this book, it just wasn’t as good as I was expecting it to be. The storyline was promising and I loved how it reminded me of a classic Agatha Christie book, but it didn’t hold my interest as well as I thought it would. There were good parts and bad parts – the location was fantastic, any one of the characters could have been the killer and the intrigue building up to who was dead was great, but for me the pace was really slow, it didn’t have hold my interest in parts and the jumping between characters perspectives and different dates made it difficult to follow the story. Three stars!

This was an incredibly interesting book. I've read several novels which alternate between different characters' narrations, but this took that to a whole new level. Not only did we switch between characters regularly, we even switched between first and third person narrative. I found this a very unique choice.

At first, I will admit that the sheer number of different perspectives was a bit overwhelming. It was hard to keep up with who was who. But as I got further into the story I was able to make sense of things more, and I could tell what was important to the story and so on. 

This is, essentially, a 'whodunit' kind of book. There is a large group of people isolated in the middle of nowhere, and a dead body. One of these remaining people must be responsible for the murder.

As well as the switching narratives, the story flips between 'before' the murder and 'after'. Most of the first part of the novel is before, and we begin to learn about the group of guests' past and relationships with one another. Bit by bit we see that everything is not quite as rosy as it first seemed.

The way the story slowly unravels was fantastic. Thrilling, exciting. And the number of revelations that are revealed one by one... As the reader, we don't know which of these is important, and which is just a red herring. Everyone seems to have their issues, but does that mean they're capable of murder?

Once I got familiar with all the different characters and plots going on, I really enjoyed this. The pace increased dramatically toward the end, making it hard to put the book down. I'm giving this 4 to 4.5 stars.

Seven old friends venture to a Lodge in the highlands of Scotland to celebrate new year’s Eve but only six will return. The old friends despite having been friends for a long time have issues and snipe at each other but tragedy strikes in a severe snow storm.

This was a fabulous read but it lacked something for me which is why I only gave it four stars. Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for this arc in exchange for my honest review.

Before I started reading this book, I feared that the plot was going to unfold along the same lines as the BBC TV show called 'Stag'. However, it was NOTHING like it!

Told from different viewpoints of some of the characters, you will be guessing right up to the wire as to whodunnit!

Really enjoyed it and look forward to reading more by Lucy Foley!

An atmospheric page turner, The Hunting Party is the type of book Agatha Christie would be writing had she been born 80 years later. Told from varying points of view the mystery isn't just who did it but who it was done to! I was totally pulled in and then held firmly. This is one book that definitely lives up to the hype.

Completely enthralled by this book with only work getting in between me and completing it. no house work done for two days and I'm pretty sure the kids were fine with cereal breakfast dinner and tea. I loved this and couldn't recommend it highly enough. I feel quite privileged to have been able to review this book and I hope to read more.

I’ve seen a lot of hype about this book so of course I had to dive in and see what all the fuss was about. I actually read most of this in one day. It is a brilliant crime debut.

The opening had me intrigued and wanting to dive in. It is a story of old friends coming together for a short get away celebrating New Years Eve in a remote location, but not everything is as it seems…

You could tell from the start there was a lot of tension between all the friends making it slightly awkward throughout and even made me feel uncomfortable at times.

Towards the end things start to turn nasty and secrets start to unfold, testing friendships and breaking barriers. Real shocker of an outcome you could not see coming or suspect at all. I loved it. Full of drama.

Brilliantly written with short chapters, an easy read for me which I throughally enjoyed. I awarded a well deserved four stars and would highly recommend. A suspense filled story that you won’t want to put down. A death you want to know the answers to… A page turner. Very impressed.

The Hunting Party has a tight plot with not a minute wasted on miscellaneous matters. It is within the space of three days surrounding the New Year when the story unfolds from two opposite ends, heading towards the denouement with great precision and control. The idea of relaying the events from before and after the murder alongside each other is original and skilfully executed. It is not only the events that are developed and layered in this unorthodox fashion, but also the characters. Every new chapter adds a new dimension, a new discovery and takes the reader that one small step closer to the finale.
The atmosphere is equally well constructed. As a reader you feel as if you are being guided out of a thick wintry fog following those faint flickering lights of the narrative that become stronger and expose more ground ahead.
For me, the weakest aspect of the book is the characterisation. The story is told from the perspective of a few main characters, most of whom speak in the first person. The personas and their secrets are different, but I found their voices indistinct. Perhaps not enough effort went into rendering them distinguishable with a few language quirks for example. Perhaps, they are so uniform because the authorial intent was to show their commonality: of background, education, class, mentality. Be it as it may, I found those characters bland and they did not win my affection or interest.
Overall, a gripping thriller delivered with a secure hand.

This was an excellent first book from this author. I really enjoyed it and have recommended it to many people who i know like thrillers. Looking forward to the next one.

I didn't find out what the fuss was all about as I stopped reading about 50 pages in, it just wasn't my cup of tea.

A group of old friends, who were the bright young things of Oxford University in their day, meet every year to spend New Year together.
This year, their chosen meeting place is a remote Scottish lodge house, which gets cut off from the outside world after heavy snowfall.
The group have grown apart over the years, but something is very "off" this year, and one of the group will pay for this.....with their life.
There is a definite feel of Agatha Christie about this book. The story goes back and forth between days before the murder and the days following, and the view points of a few of the different characters. Everyone has secrets and it is very difficult to guess who the murderer is.
Tightly crafted and keeps you guessing until the end.

I felt a bit disappointed by all my crime reads in the past year - until I read The Hunting Party! This is my favourite thriller of the past 12 months. Such a great idea followed through with an atmospheric setting, chilling uncanny moments and really good characterisation. I also loved the cover and how the blurb was just the list of subjects. I have already recommended and can't wait for the next thriller from Lucy!

I didn't think I could enjoy another contemporary mystery like I enjoyed The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle but then I discovered this one and I am yet again left with chills down my spine. This book had everything: a lonesome house in the Scottish wilderness, mysterious death and house of suspects. I love the plotting of this novel. It had you guessing who both the victim and the culprit was until the very last page. Mystery and Agatha Christie lovers need to read this one!

This book was refreshingly good.
Friends from uni on their annual get together in the middle of nowhere. Secrets,growth and a whole lot of nastiness. Slight sterotypical Oxford graduate characters but interesting just the same. Is what you have enough? Is their true character going to show?
Then there’s the game keeper and the estate manager running away from their pasts.
A good plot,kept me guessing.
Slightly jumpy in places
Four good stars