‘See Saw Films has picked up TV rights to Lucy Foley’s upcoming murder mystery novel The Hunting Party. The novel was pre-empted by Kimberley Young at HarperFiction in a strong six-figure deal in December 2017 and is slated is slated for hardback publication in 2019.
The plot of the Scottish highlands-set murder mystery unfolds over New Year’s Eve as a tight-knit group of Oxford university alumni celebrate in the impressive wilderness of the Loch Corrin Estate. In the wild terrain the group reminisce, go deer stalking, and hide friendship- destroying secrets; secrets that set a dangerous sequence of events in motion, culminating with a broken body in the snow.
Best known for her sweeping wartime historical fiction, Foley’s debut novel, The Book Of Lost And Found, was acquired at auction by HarperFiction in 2013, and was one of the top selling debuts of the year. The Hunting Party sees Foley make her crime debut.
Luke Speed, on behalf of Cathryn Summerhayes, both of Curtis Brown Group, brokered the deal with Hakan Kousetta, Chief Operating Officer for Television at See-Saw.’
Via Deadline
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