Everyone’s invited…everyone’s a think…

For fans of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a shivery, atmospheric, page-turning novel of mental suspense in the tradition of Agatha Christie, when a group of outdated college friends are snowed in at a hunting lodge . and murder and mayhem ensue.

All of them are friends. One of them is certainly a killer.

During the languid days of the Christmas break, several thirtysomething friends from Oxford satisfy to welcome in the brand new Year together, a tradition about The Hunting Party: A Novel they started as students ten years ago. For this holiday, they’ve selected an idyllic and isolated property in the Scottish Highlands-the best place to get away and unwind by themselves.

They arrive on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the exterior world.

Two days later, on New Year’s Day, one of these is dead.

The trip began innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about days gone by. But after a decade, the excess weight of magic formula resentments is continuing to grow too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to carry. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year’s Eve, the wire holding them jointly snaps.

Now one of these is useless . . . and another of them did it.

Keep your friends close, the old adage will go. But just how close is as well close?