The Hunting Party
In a remote hunting lodge, deep in the Scottish wilderness, old friends gather for New Year; The beautiful one, The golden couple, The volatile one, The new parents, The quiet one, The city boy, The outsider, The victim... Not an accident, A MURDER among friends.
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A group of Oxford friends now in their thirties travel to a remote Scottish Highlands hunting lodge to see in the new year. By the third morning, after a blizzard cuts the lodge off from the road, the gamekeeper and the manager find one of the guests dead. The story alternates among the survivors.
No. The Hunting Party (2018) is a standalone Lucy Foley thriller. Foley has written several other standalones including The Guest List, The Paris Apartment, and Midnight Feast.
Yes. A film and TV adaptation has been announced. As of 2025, the project is in development.
The Hunting Party was written by Lucy Foley, published in 2018 by HarperLuxe.
The Hunting Party is 352 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Hunting Party takes most readers 5 to 8 hours to finish.
The Hunting Party is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.