During the long New Year holidays, a company of old friends goes to the Scottish wilderness. Celebrating the New Year together is a tradition that has been going on since the university years. Now they are over thirty, their life paths gradually diverge, but the tradition is unchanged, and at the end of each year, friends gather in some unusual and always new place. This time they go to a secluded house in Scotland, where, as they are promised, there will be no one. A few days among the stunning beauty of landscapes, in the company of best friends who know each other like flakes - what could be better? Or worse?.. On New Year's Eve, one of them will disappear. And in the morning snowfall will begin, which will reliably isolate the estate from the rest of the world. An old Chinese proverb says: keep your friends close and your enemies closer. But sometimes such closeness can turn into a tragedy.If the reader loves hermetic, in the spirit of Agatha Christie, detective stories and immersion in the abyss of human nature, as in the novels of Tana French, then the Hunting House has it all.< /p>