The Hunting Party is the author s first crime novel and is described as combining elements of Agatha Christie s And Then There Were None HarperCollins and The Secret History Penguin by Donna Tartt.The novel follows a a tight knit group of Oxford university alumni as they celebrate New Year s Eve in the wilderness of the Loch Corrin Estate in Scotland A HarperFiction sThe Hunting Party is the author s first crime novel and is described as combining elements of Agatha Christie s And Then There Were None HarperCollins and The Secret History Penguin by Donna Tartt.The novel follows a a tight knit group of Oxford university alumni as they celebrate New Year s Eve in the wilderness of the Loch Corrin Estate in Scotland A HarperFiction spokesperson said In these wild, white climes the group reminisce, go deer stalking, and hide friendship destroying secrets, secrets that set a razor sharp sequence of events in motion, culminating with a broken body in the snow.