The Hunting Party
Lucy Foley, 2019
A New Year's reunion of old friends at a snowbound Highland estate, where one of them will not survive the year — and everyone has a reason.
Lucy Foley
The draw in Lucy Foley is the guest list as a pressure cooker: old friends, a wedding, an island or a snowbound Highland estate, and a body somewhere in the middle of it. In «The Guest List» a remote Irish island wedding gathers people with reasons to lie, and in «The Hunting Party» a New Year's reunion at a snowbound estate brings the same closed-circle unease. Start with whichever setting appeals, though «The Guest List» is often the easier entry point.
Feels like dread, society and serenity.
Start with The Hunting Party.
Foley wrote historical fiction and commercial novels before switching to crime; she has cited Agatha Christie as the model for her closed-circle plots.
How little pressure it takes to find out what someone really is.
Some people, given just the right amount of pressure, taken out of their usual, comfortable environments, don’t need much encouragement at all to become monsters. And sometimes you just get a strong sense about people, and you can’t explain it; you simply know it, in some deeper part of yourself. Books by Lucy Foley
The Guest List
Lucy Foley, 2020
A wedding on a remote Irish island, a body, and a guest list full of people with reasons to lie.
The Midnight Feast
Lucy Foley, 2024
A wellness retreat opens on the Dorset coast: white linen, clean food, old grudges. The village remembers everything the guests are paying to forget.
The Paris Apartment
Lucy Foley, 2022
A broke young woman arrives in Paris to stay with her brother, but he has vanished and his neighbors are lying.
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