Hunting Party - Lucy Foley

Mystery/Suspense

Rating: 5/10

A group of old college friends gather for their annual New Year’s trip in a remote lodge in the Scottish wilderness. Never has the old saying, with friends like these who needs enemies, been more appropriate.

All the archetypes are covered; the beautiful one, the volatile one, the quiet one, the outsider, the city boy, the golden couple and the new parents.  As the story unfolds through various narrators, we know that one of them is dead.  And given the lack of other alternatives, another of them likely did it.  Touted as being comparable to an Agatha Christie story I was looking forward to it.  And then I was disappointed that absolutely none of the characters were likeable or even interesting. 

I’m sure some people will love it, not this people however.

Footnote: A saving grace to this story is that not only is the reader in the dark on who the killer is, but also who the victim is.  Regrettably I figured out both in the first twenty pages.  Probably could have stopped there but I had already handed my money over so…