--- product_id: 154350874 title: "The Hunting Party: A Novel" price: "34.12 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/154350874-the-hunting-party-a-novel store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # The Hunting Party: A Novel **Price:** 34.12 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Hunting Party: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** 34.12 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/154350874-the-hunting-party-a-novel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description #1 NYT Bestselling Author “My favorite kind of whodunit, kept me guessing all the way through, and reminiscent of Agatha Christie at her best — with an extra dose of acid.” — Alex Michaelides, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Silent Patient From the author of the Reese Witherspoon book club pick The Guest List Everyone's invited...everyone's a suspect... During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands—the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves. The trip begins innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to bear. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year’s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps, just as a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world. Two days later, on New Year’s Day, one of them is dead. . . and another of them did it. Keep your friends close, the old adage says. But how close is too close? DON'T BE LEFT OUT. JOIN THE PARTY NOW. Review: Absolutely excellent; rating is 4.5 stars--except I can't rate that - Lucy Foley has given us a spectacular character-driven mystery, beginning with the discovery of a body lying in the snow. Whose body? We don't know, and won't know until the end of the novel. We are then thrust into bustling action, several days before this unnerving discovery. A group of friends from Oxford are getting together for their yearly New Year's Celebration ritual. This year, they are heading off for a remote hunting lodge in the Scottish Highlands, which in the case of inclement weather will be cut off from roads, transportation, shops, other people...pretty much any other form of civilization known to man. Even internet connection is spotty in this part of the world. The only outsiders are the lodge manager, the caretaker, and two other guests. This close-knit group of friends has known each other forever, but from the beginning of the trip, something has seemed...off. The lodge manager notices it, and in the chapters, each narrated by different characters, we piece together long-simmering tensions in the group, uncover secrets and passions, and discover what led to murder. Everything isn't what it seems in this fast-paced chiller. The characters are complex, the narrative strands weave deftly together, and ending was a surprise, though the strands were there all along. Foley's writing is neat, descriptive enough, and gives a sense of the vast wilderness, but always keeps our focus on the action and plot. Never is there a descent into stereotypes or idiocy--everyone is real. As the focus of the plot switches from the group of friends, to the search for a missing person, Foley never loses control of the characters. Intense and riveting. Great read. Review: Suspense Builds and Builds; Keeps You Guessing - No spoilers. For this and her other thrillers, Foley uses a device of telling the story through the perspectives of several of the main characters, and jumps back and forth from events leading up to the crime and then after. You don’t even know exactly what happened apart from the fact someone is dead until very late in the telling; this might be impossible to pull off for most writers but as Foley fills in the backstories and secrets and connections between the characters she expertly keeps the reader hanging and wondering how exactly this is all going to collide on the worst New Year’s Eve ever for this group of college friends united at a desolate lodge with the most complicated - but likable! - innkeepers in the history of the hospitality industry. Foley weaves in some spot-on observations on lifelong friendships and frenemies and the things we sometimes overlook in those we consider closest to us along the way. I loved this book. Very satisfying denouement. I’ll be reading her other stuff and this book is now one of my go-to gifts for my favorite people and lifelong friends. ## Images ![The Hunting Party: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91o4QwVawiL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Absolutely excellent; rating is 4.5 stars--except I can't rate that *by D***B on February 13, 2019* Lucy Foley has given us a spectacular character-driven mystery, beginning with the discovery of a body lying in the snow. Whose body? We don't know, and won't know until the end of the novel. We are then thrust into bustling action, several days before this unnerving discovery. A group of friends from Oxford are getting together for their yearly New Year's Celebration ritual. This year, they are heading off for a remote hunting lodge in the Scottish Highlands, which in the case of inclement weather will be cut off from roads, transportation, shops, other people...pretty much any other form of civilization known to man. Even internet connection is spotty in this part of the world. The only outsiders are the lodge manager, the caretaker, and two other guests. This close-knit group of friends has known each other forever, but from the beginning of the trip, something has seemed...off. The lodge manager notices it, and in the chapters, each narrated by different characters, we piece together long-simmering tensions in the group, uncover secrets and passions, and discover what led to murder. Everything isn't what it seems in this fast-paced chiller. The characters are complex, the narrative strands weave deftly together, and ending was a surprise, though the strands were there all along. Foley's writing is neat, descriptive enough, and gives a sense of the vast wilderness, but always keeps our focus on the action and plot. Never is there a descent into stereotypes or idiocy--everyone is real. As the focus of the plot switches from the group of friends, to the search for a missing person, Foley never loses control of the characters. Intense and riveting. Great read. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Suspense Builds and Builds; Keeps You Guessing *by G***Y on February 23, 2025* No spoilers. For this and her other thrillers, Foley uses a device of telling the story through the perspectives of several of the main characters, and jumps back and forth from events leading up to the crime and then after. You don’t even know exactly what happened apart from the fact someone is dead until very late in the telling; this might be impossible to pull off for most writers but as Foley fills in the backstories and secrets and connections between the characters she expertly keeps the reader hanging and wondering how exactly this is all going to collide on the worst New Year’s Eve ever for this group of college friends united at a desolate lodge with the most complicated - but likable! - innkeepers in the history of the hospitality industry. Foley weaves in some spot-on observations on lifelong friendships and frenemies and the things we sometimes overlook in those we consider closest to us along the way. I loved this book. Very satisfying denouement. I’ll be reading her other stuff and this book is now one of my go-to gifts for my favorite people and lifelong friends. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Well written, poorly edited for storytelling *by H***A on March 10, 2026* The book is technically well written in that the prose is engaging and moves the story along. It's a fine read (or listen) and the imagery is vivid. A few of the characters are compelling and I'd have loved if the author had explored them more carefully. That might have been possible if 5 characters who had absolutely no story movement hadn't taken up space on the page. There are literally 5 characters whose presence does nothing to forward the plot. While past incidents involving a couple of these characters shed some light on more relevant characters, these memories were told not shown, so there was literally no reason to include the characters in the hunting party. I'm not sure how a story editor missed this. This is the first book I've read by Lucy Foley, and I'll probably try another title by her because the writing is good but I'd have rather known significantly more about Heather and Doug than spend time with the 5 characters who had no influence on the events of the book. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/154350874-the-hunting-party-a-novel](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/154350874-the-hunting-party-a-novel) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-05-31*