It shows a fir-lined loch, heather-red peaks rising behind though they may well be snow-covered now. These folks are lucky if they get one bar of service on their cellphones, and to cap it all, there’s a pending threat of a snowstorm. This year, mousy Emma, a later addition to the group of friends, has arranged a stay at a remote hunting lodge in the Scottish Highlands. Getting together every New Year’s is a tradition for a group of Londoners who became close during their Oxford days. When you drop the beleaguered cast in the middle of an unforgiving landscape, it’s even better, and that’s what Lucy Foley does with the poor folks in The Hunting Party. Kill one, and you’re off to the races! It’s an enduring format, and when it’s done right, it’s quite effective. If you’ve got a set group of people in an isolated setting, you’re good to go. With an impending blizzard on the way, the nostalgia ends abruptly when one of them is murdered.Īnyone that’s read Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None is familiar with the locked room mystery. In Lucy Foley’s The Hunting Party, a group of old Oxford friends celebrates their annual reunion at a lodge in the remote Scottish Highlands.
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