Is The Hunting Party Worth Reading?
by Lucy Foley
Ada’s Score
Lucy Foley's atmospheric debut thriller gathers a group of old Oxford friends at a remote Scottish hunting lodge over New Year's Eve — and by morning one of them is dead. Foley structures her mystery across multiple unreliable perspectives, slowly peeling back years of hidden grievances, secrets, and dangerous desire. The isolated Highland setting becomes as suffocating as the social dynamics, with a blizzard sealing the lodge shut before police can arrive. Sharp, propulsive, and deliciously claustrophobic, it established Foley as one of contemporary crime fiction's most reliable architects of dread.
“The Scottish wilderness has never felt more menacing — Foley turns a weekend getaway into a pressure cooker of old resentments.”
Ada Brief
AI reading intelligence“The Scottish wilderness has never felt more menacing — Foley turns a weekend getaway into a pressure cooker of old resentments.”
Book Details
- Publisher
- HarperLuxe
- Published
- January 1, 2018
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
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Ada’s Score Breakdown
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This breakdown reflects how Ada weighs the book’s strengths and flaws, not aggregated reader data.
Common Questions About The Hunting Party
- Is The Hunting Party worth reading?
- The Scottish wilderness has never felt more menacing — Foley turns a weekend getaway into a pressure cooker of old resentments. Ada rates it 4.0 out of 5.
- How many pages is The Hunting Party?
- The Hunting Party is 352 pages long — around 6–7 hours at an average reading pace.
