Agent: Alexandra Machinist, ICM Partners. The Hunting Party is the story of a group of old friends who have gathered at a remote, luxurious resort in the wilds of Scotland for their annual New Year’s Eve get-together. Foley spins her story skillfully through multiple narrators, and if she’s less sure-handed with character, this still makes for a cracklingly suspenseful story for a long winter’s night. Knowing my favorite genres, I started with The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley it was a quick, engaging read, and just what I needed to get over the hump. Things start to go seriously wrong with the arrival of a blizzard that will soon cut off the 50,000-acre spread from the outside world. At the Loch Corrin station, they’re met by Doug, the estate’s odd, though hunky, gamekeeper at Loch Corrin, they encounter unexpected additional guests: a pair of strange Icelandic backpackers. Tensions, sexual and otherwise, first flare during the lengthy, alcohol-lubricated train trip from London on December 30, fanned by charismatic, capricious Miranda-the golden girl most men want to be with and more than a few women long to become. Nine close friends, four of them couples, gather for their extravagant annual New Year’s getaway-this time at Loch Corrin, a remote estate in the Scottish Highlands-a decade after most of them graduated from Oxford. Historical novelist Foley ( The Invitation) makes an auspicious thriller debut.
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