While this was a fun thriller set in the perfect setting — a hunting lodge in the middle of nowhere in Scotland — it was very similar to The Guest List.
A group of old college decide to spend their New Year’s Eve at a remote hunting lodge in Scotland. There’s a lot of drinking, a lot of reminiscing, a lot of remembering why so many of them don’t really like each other. When there is a massive blizzard, trapping them at the lodge, they find themselves trapped… and then one of them is found dead at the bottom of a cliff, and it doesn’t look like an accident.
I liked the build up on this one more than the conclusion, honestly. I didn’t really care about any of the college-friend characters — none of them had any real redeeming qualities. I’m not sure why any of them thought they were friends from the beginning. Even though the victim was supposed to be a secret for most of the book, it was pretty clear who was killed.
The most interesting characters in the book were the two people who worked at the Lodge, and reading about their history and how they ended up working at the lodge. But, sadly, they didn’t make up enough of the book to give this more stars.