Paula K 's Reviews > The Hunting Party

I do love a mystery where the setting is remote and very secluded. The Hunting Party brings old college friends from Oxford together for their annual New Years Eve get together in the Scottish Highlands. It’s been a tradition for 10 years. New to the group, Emma, tries to outdo the previous locations chosen each year. She decides on an exclusive hunting lodge way out in the wilderness that is known for it’s isolation. Maybe too isolated ?

Once all the friends arrive and carry on with very lively partying, a blizzard hits. They are cut off from civilization. No one can get out. But are these bunch of entitled snobs really friends ? Not really...being closed up brings out the worst...old resentments come to surface, underlying secrets are revealed. A sense of foreboding builds and soon a murder takes place which means one of them has to be the killer.

Told from different POVs this character-driven novel is both fun and entertaining. An atmospheric page turner. If you don’t mind reading about a bunch of mean-spirited brats, go for it.

4.5 out of 5 stars