Book Review: The Hunting Party

Some time ago I bought a blind date with a book from Barnes and Noble. I don't normally do that because there's too much of a gambling element, and I'm pretty picky with my reading. But this one time I did, and the book, once unwrapped, sat on my shelf for a long time (mood reader here). Anyway, I picked it up on Sunday after staring at my shelves for far too long. The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley is a murder mystery where you don't learn the identity of the victim until the big climax where the murderer is also revealed. It's about a group people in their early thirties, a college friend group who continues to keep in touch through a yearly New Year's Eve trip, who go to a remote lodge in the Scottish highland. And then, in the isolation and cold, dark secrets come to light and the friendships fall apart before someone is murdered. It is told from the perspective of three of the guests as well as the property manager and gamekeeper, in two time frames; everything leading up to the…