I’ve read many reviews where readers seem to favor the first Lucy Foley mystery book they read over the others, and I wonder if that’s the case here.
The first thing I’ll note is that I was drawn to the characters of The Guest List more quickly than the characters of The Hunting Party. But things turn deadly when they are snowed in, cut off from the rest of civilization. The Hunting PartyĪ group of old friends gathers at the remote Scottish estate on Loch Corrin to celebrate New Year’s.
However, in this case, the locked room is unintentional. The only Spenser book I thought was worth much, mostly because there’s not as much Spenser smarminess and he shows a humane side to dealing with this case in a way I found endearing.The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley is another locked room mystery in the style of Agatha Christie. I loved it.Ī beautiful story and excellent resource for kids with ADHD and their parents. A fun story of a gangster-turned-detective who is dealing with his past to help his lady friend in the present despite signs that he should be. This early period Donald Westlake quickie is one of the best things Hard Case Crime has ever republished. A confidently written debut work of high quality. But on a deeper level, it’s a greater exploration of Asian identity and the power of family throughout generations. On the surface, this is a twisty time travel mystery.
She’s a talented writer but she writes the ugliest endings. Lucy Foley’s books have a low ceiling that she can’t help but hit. But then the killer is revealed and their motivations are garbage at best and problematic at worse and it soured me on the whole thing. I was prepared to write about this being a decent read. So after two books and almost 2k pages of enough internalized misogyny to make Phyllis Schlafly blush, with stories chock full of men and women who will literally hump anyone and anything, Jackie Collins suddenly decides to make Lucky purchase a movie studio…in order to get rid of casting couches and male dominance in favor of female-driven movies that are less horny.
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