Arriving in Paris to stay with her brother, Ben, Jess learns that he has gone missing, and to find him, starts digging into his life, realizing, even though she has come to the City of Lights to escape her past, it's his future hanging in the balance.
In recent years, it seems like Lucy Foley’s suspense thriller The Guest List has been everywhere you look. Those who loved that novel will be excited to learn that Foley is back with another hit, The Paris Apartment, a moody, atmospheric suspense story that revolves around a man’s strange disappearance from a posh apartment in Paris. More ominous and closed-in than The Guest List, another “locked room-ish mystery,” The Paris Apartment is just as haunting as its utterly compelling cover suggests.
The story is gradually told through multiple POVs, but is primarily seen through the eyes of the missing man Ben’s sister Jess, who travels from the UK to Paris to stay with her journalist brother in a luxurious apartment. However, when she arrives, Ben is nowhere to be found. As Jess tries to piece together the puzzle of where her brother is, she encounters the other odd occupants of the Paris apartment and discovers that something very unsettling indeed is going on in this building … and she is determined to find out what it is. Rounding out this storyline are the perspectives of the apartment’s other occupants, who slowly let us peek into their lives and gain a firmer grasp on why Ben suddenly disappeared.
What I liked best about The Paris Apartment is how Foley inserted little twists into the story here and there by way of character development. As we learn about the occupants of this Paris apartment, we discover that all is not as it seems, and that sometimes, it is even not as we think it is after our initial theories have been dispelled. The fact that I knew that I could never trust Foley, nor what her characters were telling and showing me, kept this book exciting, as I never knew what to expect.
I did find that the book moved slowly at times, especially in the beginning, but things pick up by the halfway mark. Additionally, the storyline feels really murky at the start, and I had a hard time getting into the novel initially because I was rather confused, but trust me that Foley knows what she is doing and that the payoffs at the end are well-worth some disorientation in the beginning.
Recommended to fans of prominent female suspense writers.
Availability: eBook & eAudiobook in cloudLibrary Rating: **** Stars (I really liked it) Reviewer: Brooke, Public Relations Librarian
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GENRE: Thrillers and Suspense
TONE: Bleak; Menacing
STORYLINE: Intricately Plotted
WRITING STYLE: Compelling
CHARACTER: Well-Developed
LOCATION: Paris, France
SUBJECT: Apartment House Life; Apartments; British in France; Half-Siblings; Missing Persons; Neighbors; Suspicion; Unemployed Women
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