The Hunting Party

The Hunting Party, ultimately, was okay. I liked the pace and the setting, but not so much the characters. The writing was decent, but not impressive. Most of all I was not a fan of the format: the point of view changes every few pages, it jumps back and forth in time, and some of the chapters are written in first person while others are in third. WHY? It really felt like they were arbitrary choices and lended nothing to the mystery.

Also, this book (like so many others) was compared to the Golden Age of mystery in the description. I really have to stop falling for that. Aside from being a “closed room” mystery, which is by no means exclusive to the Golden Age, it has little in common with mysteries of that period. I was disappointed.