Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her "nest" of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary.
But, Ware’s book predates Foley’s, and the similarities seem too numerous to be accidental.About the Book "What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware's suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller.
This book is unmistakably in Ware’s voice, and I haven’t read enough of Foley to say whether it’s typical of her, but The Hunting Party doesn’t read like it’s parroting Ware. The stories diverge there are different murders with different victims and different motives. There’s even a burned out building on site in both books. There’s the new mom who’s barely in the story, a gay best male friend there as an outlier, the Single White Female friend who’s just a little too similar to the queen bee. The site itself has a dark past, and there’s a literal Chekov’s gun on the wall in both stories. Both books are about a group of friends who aren’t as close as they once were, assembled to celebrate in the middle of nowhere, where the protagonist is the mousy friend who was drawn into the queen bee of the group’s orbit in early childhood. Sure, any mystery is going to have some common elements, but this goes beyond the “everyone owes a debt to Agatha Christie” level. I don’t think that Lucy Foley’s The Hunting Party rises to the level of plagiarism, but there are some striking resemblances. I’m talking about the deja vu of realizing you’ve read something VERY similar. Which, you know, makes sense in a whodunnit where we’re trying to establish who’s responsible for the murder committed on a weekend away in the woods. Reading Ruth Ware’s debut novel, I had a creeping sensation of unease.
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