The Hunting Party

A group of old university friends, now in their thirties, keep up a tradition of ringing in the New Year together. This year they travel to a remote hunting lodge at Loch Corrin, deep in the Scottish Highlands, for three days of champagne, fine food, and the comfortable cruelties of people who have known each other far too long. Then a historic blizzard seals the estate off from the outside world — and by New Year's Day, one of them is dead.

Told through the voices of several guests and the lodge's isolated staff, and crisscrossing between the party itself and the frozen aftermath when the body is found, the novel slowly peels back a decade of buried resentments, betrayals, and secrets. As the snow traps everyone together, it becomes clear that the killer is one of the group.

Lucy Foley's atmospheric, slow-burn thriller uses its claustrophobic setting and rotating perspectives to ask how well any of us really know our closest friends.