When a body is found, emergency services are unable to send help until the weather lets up, leaving Heather and Doug to manage the situation – two very fragile people.Īs I said, Foley is a master at building tension, the before and now time-frame keeps you guessing, but slowly fills you in with what’s going on in the heads of several characters, as well as their interactions with others. Not long into the story there is a snow storm which turns the hunting lodge and its grounds into an island. The presumptuousness and bad behaviour of a group of drunk friends might just do the trick. You can’t help wondering what it might take to set him off. His past is littered with violence, and he’s in charge of the shooting. Doug is also running away from something – a checkered past that includes PTSD from his stints as a soldier in Afghanistan. Heather, recovering from loss, prefers her own company and the quiet of the remote setting. They seem to have it all and as we know that means trouble, particularly with their continued disregard for other people’s feelings. Julian and Miranda are fabulously wealthy and incredibly good looking.
Mark is Julian’s best mate and Julian is married to Miranda, and these two are the alpha couple of the group. Most of them have been friends since university, although it is Emma, a more recent addition to the group, who arranges everything. The scenario is a group of nine friends who take the train for a weekend away in Scotland to see in the New Year at a remote hunting lodge.
So beginning the earlier book, I asked myself, should I feel a little short-changed?īut in no time The Hunting Party swept me off into the story, because Foley is superb at creating tension and drama.
The cast of characters – victims, witnesses and suspects – is cut off from the world by a weather event in both books. Both use the same before and now time shifts and leave the reader guessing not only who the murderer is – there are multiple candidates – but also the identity of the victim. This novel is very similar in structure to The Guest List, Foley’s later book (which I reviewed last year) so it’s hard not to make comparisons.
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