The Hunting Party

 Fiction by Lucy Foley.

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A group of friends who knew one another at Oxford still get together every year to ring in the New Year's together with their significant others, even though it's been over  a decade since college. This year it's a romantic hunting-lodge getaway into the wilds of Scotland, and the friends are looking forward to catching up and binding together the relationships that have been slightly fractured by time.

But once they are all together at the lodge, one of them is killed. Which one is dead, and who killed him or her? The author takes her time in revealing these things. It's a classic locked-room mystery in which the murderer could have been any one of the group.

This seemed like a perfect set-up; however, I didn't like this story as much as I should have. Maybe it's just because most of the characters were rather awful. Maybe it's because it seemed too contrived. Anyways, the story was all right but not great.