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William Morrow (2022), 368 pages
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Jess needs a fresh start. She's broke and alone, and she's just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn't sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn't say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up, to find a very nice apartment, (could Ben really have afforded this?) he's not there. The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig into her brother's situation, and the more questions she has. Ben's neighbors are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. Jess may have come to Paris to escape her past, but it's starting to look like it's Ben's future that's in question. The socialite. The nice guy. The alcoholic. The girl on the verge. The concierge. Everyone's a neighbor. Everyone's a suspect. And everyone knows something they're not telling.… (more)
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LibraryThing member Perednia
OTT; my disbelief could not remain suspended.
LibraryThing member ecataldi
This book has one hell of a hook and will keep you guessing. Even when I correctly guessed some of the parts there were twists on top of that so I was constantly surprised. Not quite as strong as her first thriller, The Guest List, but still a solid read that will keep readers engaged. When Jess
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needs to get away from her life for a bit she calls up her brother and asks to crash at his Paris apartment. He reluctantly agrees to allow her to stay, but when she arrives at his apartment building he is not there to let her in. Where has he gone? She finagles her way into the apartment eventually, and is shocked to see the cat covered in blood and a strong smell of bleach in the apartment. Whatever happened to her brother probably isn't good. She decides to start asking the people in the surrounding apartments if they know anything, but things keep taking weirder turns. What is going on? Twisty and dark. Some elements are easy to suss out and others are completely surprising. Show Less
LibraryThing member DrApple
I was not impressed by this novel at first, but s the story progressed things became more and more twisted and surprising. Jess goes to stay with her brother in Paris, but finds he has disappeared. Everyone in his upscale apartment house seems suspect. The deeper she digs, the stranger they seem to
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LibraryThing member FlowerchildReads
This book! This book y’all! I know so many reader friends have The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley as one of your can’t wait books of 2022. Less than a week until you can get your copy on 2/22/22 (love that date!) and it’s so, so good!
In need of a new start Jess heads to Paris to stay with her
In this closed door mystery Lucy Foley does a phenomenal job pacing, building each character, revealing information in a nonlinear way so the reader never feels quite at ease. The major twists do not come when you expect leaving you coasting when you anticipate a cliff, and without footing when you thought you were just connecting minor points. It’s expertly done making this unputdownable! I loved every minute. I give this my highest recommendation for lovers of thrillers and suspense, fiction readers who love whodunnit, and buddy reads because you’re going to want to talk about this with someone!
My sincere thanks to William Marrow who kindly sent me an Advanced Reader Copy and the opportunity to read and review The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley. All opinions are my own.
In need of a new start Jess heads to Paris to stay with her
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half brother Ben. She doesn’t remember a yes when she asked, but it wasn’t a no. When Jess arrives something, everything, is off. Ben is missing, living in a flat far too upscale for a journalist writing restaurant reviews, and the neighbors are all hiding something. Told from alternating points of view, as Jess tries to find Ben we begin to learn what he was doing there, who lives in the building, his relationship to each of them, and how they connect. There’s a man missing but a lot of other questions. Is anything, or anyone, what they seem? How do you define and redefine yourself, others? How tight are the bonds of family and how do we define them? What will we forsake of ourselves, of others, to illuminate (or hide) the truth?In this closed door mystery Lucy Foley does a phenomenal job pacing, building each character, revealing information in a nonlinear way so the reader never feels quite at ease. The major twists do not come when you expect leaving you coasting when you anticipate a cliff, and without footing when you thought you were just connecting minor points. It’s expertly done making this unputdownable! I loved every minute. I give this my highest recommendation for lovers of thrillers and suspense, fiction readers who love whodunnit, and buddy reads because you’re going to want to talk about this with someone!
My sincere thanks to William Marrow who kindly sent me an Advanced Reader Copy and the opportunity to read and review The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley. All opinions are my own.
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LibraryThing member Twink
I've enjoyed Lucy Foley's previous books and was eager to listen to her newest - The Paris Apartment.
Jess needs to get away from her life in England. She calls her half brother Ben to see if she can stay with him in Paris for awhile and he reluctantly agrees. But when she arrives at his apartment
"The socialite – The nice guy – The alcoholic – The girl on the verge – The concierge. Everyone's a neighbor. Everyone's a suspect. And everyone knows something they’re not telling."
Well, I was hooked from the opening chapters! The Paris Apartment has that 'locked room' mystery feel to it - a premise I quite like. The apartment itself is older and that added to the ambiance. And yes, there's a cellar and an attic.....
Jess is tenacious in her hunt for Ben and I was firmly behind her. (But she's much braver than I would be!) Each resident of the building is given a voice - including Ben. And so the listener becomes privy to information that Jess doesn't have as she tries to locate Ben.
The journey to the final pages is on a dark and twisted road. Foley's plotting is clever, keeping the listener on their toes. Another great book from Foley!
I really enjoyed having a cast present The Paris Apartment. The narrators were Clare Corbett, Daphne Kouma, Julia Winwood, Sope Dirisu, Sofia Zervudachi and Charlie Anson. I'm not sure who did what role, but they all were excellent. The book takes place in Paris and the French accents were perfect, yet easy to understand. The voices employed suited the characters being played. Jess had a nice, low tone to her voice that drew the listener to her. The dangerous players all showed that threat with their voices. The tension of the plot was easily presented. For me, I know I always feel drawn into a story when I listen. And that was most definitely the case with The Paris Apartment.
Jess needs to get away from her life in England. She calls her half brother Ben to see if she can stay with him in Paris for awhile and he reluctantly agrees. But when she arrives at his apartment
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building, he's not there and he's not answering his phone either. When she knocks on the neighbors' doors, the other residents of the building say they haven't seen him. They're definitely not a friendly bunch...."The socialite – The nice guy – The alcoholic – The girl on the verge – The concierge. Everyone's a neighbor. Everyone's a suspect. And everyone knows something they’re not telling."
Well, I was hooked from the opening chapters! The Paris Apartment has that 'locked room' mystery feel to it - a premise I quite like. The apartment itself is older and that added to the ambiance. And yes, there's a cellar and an attic.....
Jess is tenacious in her hunt for Ben and I was firmly behind her. (But she's much braver than I would be!) Each resident of the building is given a voice - including Ben. And so the listener becomes privy to information that Jess doesn't have as she tries to locate Ben.
The journey to the final pages is on a dark and twisted road. Foley's plotting is clever, keeping the listener on their toes. Another great book from Foley!
I really enjoyed having a cast present The Paris Apartment. The narrators were Clare Corbett, Daphne Kouma, Julia Winwood, Sope Dirisu, Sofia Zervudachi and Charlie Anson. I'm not sure who did what role, but they all were excellent. The book takes place in Paris and the French accents were perfect, yet easy to understand. The voices employed suited the characters being played. Jess had a nice, low tone to her voice that drew the listener to her. The dangerous players all showed that threat with their voices. The tension of the plot was easily presented. For me, I know I always feel drawn into a story when I listen. And that was most definitely the case with The Paris Apartment.
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LibraryThing member Eyejaybee
I suspect all of us have experienced that delicious serendipity of picking a book up more or less by chance and finding that it is both engrossing and entertaining. I discovered lucy Foley’s book in just such a way. I found myself faced with an unexpected long train journey ahead of me and,
Well, I was completely wrong, and within a few pages I was absolutely hooked. It offered an intriguing suspense story, offered from several different characters’ perspective and full of surprising plot twists. As a consequence, I read her next novel, The Guest List, which I found equally entertaining,
The Paris Apartment follows a similar format, with the story revealed in narratives from various characters, and there is a copious offering of tangential plot twists. The story is well put together, and the reader quickly builds up an empathy for Jess, the lead protagonist, who has fled from her chaotic life in Brighton to spend some time with her half-brother Benjamin, who has recently moved into a chic apartment in a building in one of the smarter areas of Paris. When she arrives there, however, there is no sign of Benjamin, and she finds that the other inhabitants of the building are far from welcoming of this English stranger.
Jess is certainly a great character – resourceful and stalwart, and showing a great capacity to rebound from the numerous adversities that life has thrown her way. However, I was less convinced by any of the other characters. Similarly, I found the plot slightly less coherent than those of her previous books. I felt almost as if the writer was more concerned with surprising the reader than in developing a strong story.
But despite those slight misgivings, I still enjoyed the book, and its grip was such that I kept reading far later than I should have done. If I had read this one first, I would still have been keen to find any other books that Ms Foley had written. It simply lacked a little of the stellar impact of the earlier two.
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knowing that I had almost finished the book I was currently reading, I resorted to the small shop at the station to see if I could find some form of Red Cross parcel to tide me over. The selection of books on offer was conspicuous by its paucity, but it did include a copy of Lucy Foley’s The Hunting Party, the cover of which was strewn with the sort of sensationalist encomia that would normally put me off completely. Reluctantly seeing it a faut de mieux option I bought it, expecting to find it at odds with my normal taste.Well, I was completely wrong, and within a few pages I was absolutely hooked. It offered an intriguing suspense story, offered from several different characters’ perspective and full of surprising plot twists. As a consequence, I read her next novel, The Guest List, which I found equally entertaining,
The Paris Apartment follows a similar format, with the story revealed in narratives from various characters, and there is a copious offering of tangential plot twists. The story is well put together, and the reader quickly builds up an empathy for Jess, the lead protagonist, who has fled from her chaotic life in Brighton to spend some time with her half-brother Benjamin, who has recently moved into a chic apartment in a building in one of the smarter areas of Paris. When she arrives there, however, there is no sign of Benjamin, and she finds that the other inhabitants of the building are far from welcoming of this English stranger.
Jess is certainly a great character – resourceful and stalwart, and showing a great capacity to rebound from the numerous adversities that life has thrown her way. However, I was less convinced by any of the other characters. Similarly, I found the plot slightly less coherent than those of her previous books. I felt almost as if the writer was more concerned with surprising the reader than in developing a strong story.
But despite those slight misgivings, I still enjoyed the book, and its grip was such that I kept reading far later than I should have done. If I had read this one first, I would still have been keen to find any other books that Ms Foley had written. It simply lacked a little of the stellar impact of the earlier two.
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LibraryThing member bookworm12
A good vacation read, but I didn’t like it as much as The Guest List. A twisty thriller with some good surprises, but it was missing a character to root for. They were all so self-absorbed and broken it was hard to care about what happened to them. It was a quick read though and kept me
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LibraryThing member Bauernfeind
Well, I was on board with the sort of spooky theme of the book until it all unraveled at the end. Not the way I thought it would go. Melodramatic.
LibraryThing member brangwinn
Lucy Foley writes outstanding mystery thrillers and she’s back with one that meets the expectations set by the previous books. Jess arrives in Paris to find her brother missing. He’s offered her a place to live while she gets her life together. She can get into her brother's apartment and finds
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there’s a creepy secret hidden by the family who lives there. The more she looks for the answer to her missing brother the more she finds herself in danger with no idea who to believe. And when she discovers the secret the wealthy family who lives in the apartment building is hiding, it becomes front page news in the Paris papers. Show Less
LibraryThing member SandyAMcPherson
While Foley adroitly managed a style characterized by first-person narratives and a mixture of flipping to the distant past, recent times and the present in a previous novel (The Guest List, 2020), I disliked her use of this structure in The Paris Apartment. The story was too broken up with
Aside from the style fumble, the characters were shallow with little development through the novel, along with a stagnant plot until well into the the last quarter of the book. My curiosity, and a sense thatone of the characters had not been murdered though the reader was pointedly led to think so , were the primary reasons I even finished the book.
The ending was only "okay" because other developments were left unfulfilled (Jess's relationship with Theo, the potential for some closure for other main characters, especially Sophie and her gaining some freedom ). I think the author could have pulled a stronger narrative together considering her plot had a great theme of good trouncing evil and a release of angst for the Jess-Ben backstory.
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discontinuity and didn't flow well enough to keep my interest.Aside from the style fumble, the characters were shallow with little development through the novel, along with a stagnant plot until well into the the last quarter of the book. My curiosity, and a sense that
The ending was only "okay" because other developments were left unfulfilled (
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LibraryThing member Gingersnap000
A suspenseful thriller which will have the reader second guessing what happened to Ben, British journalist. His sister, Jess, comes to visit he is missing. She begins to question the occupants of the other apartments but no one is forth coming on the last time they saw Ben. The closer Jess comes to
Each chapter of the book is the narrative of one of the apartment dwellers or Jess.
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finding the truth about Ben. Each chapter of the book is the narrative of one of the apartment dwellers or Jess.
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LibraryThing member gpangel
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley is a 2022 William Morrow publication.
Jess contacts her half-brother, Ben, who is living in Paris, asking to be allowed to come for a visit. Though the timing is not the best, he agrees, but when Jess arrives at his apartment, Ben is nowhere to be found. It is odd
Jess slyly works her way inside of Ben's apartment, but becomes more and more concerned when Ben never shows up.
Naturally, she turns to the other residents, hoping to find out when or where Ben was last seen, and by whom.
But she seems to make Ben’s neighbors very uncomfortable, as they barely tolerate Jess, her probing questions and the insinuation into their lives and explosive secrets…
This latest endeavor by Lucy Foley is a very slow burn, but the atmosphere is so thick I found myself immersed in the story, despite the seeming lack of real progress.
Once the pieces are carefully placed, though, one sick, twisted story emerges out the murky depths that is well the worth the time it took to get there.
Overall, this is a very well-written, absorbing mystery, and for me, is another winner for Lucy Foley!!
Jess contacts her half-brother, Ben, who is living in Paris, asking to be allowed to come for a visit. Though the timing is not the best, he agrees, but when Jess arrives at his apartment, Ben is nowhere to be found. It is odd
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that he wasn’t home to greet her- and strange that she wasn’t allowed into his apartment by the usual means. Jess slyly works her way inside of Ben's apartment, but becomes more and more concerned when Ben never shows up.
Naturally, she turns to the other residents, hoping to find out when or where Ben was last seen, and by whom.
But she seems to make Ben’s neighbors very uncomfortable, as they barely tolerate Jess, her probing questions and the insinuation into their lives and explosive secrets…
This latest endeavor by Lucy Foley is a very slow burn, but the atmosphere is so thick I found myself immersed in the story, despite the seeming lack of real progress.
Once the pieces are carefully placed, though, one sick, twisted story emerges out the murky depths that is well the worth the time it took to get there.
Overall, this is a very well-written, absorbing mystery, and for me, is another winner for Lucy Foley!!
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LibraryThing member Inishowen_Cailin
Dark and creepy with a whole bunch of strange and unlikeable people. I liked Jess who has the unenviable task of living with these horrible people in order to find out what happened to her brother, Ben.
This slow-burn story is twisty and complicated. It jumps back and forth between timelines and
I listened to the audiobook and I loved the ensemble cast narration.
I enjoyed The Paris Apartment but it's slightly darker and uglier than I would normally enjoy and I found myself needing to shake it off after I'd finished it.
This slow-burn story is twisty and complicated. It jumps back and forth between timelines and
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points of view of different characters.I listened to the audiobook and I loved the ensemble cast narration.
I enjoyed The Paris Apartment but it's slightly darker and uglier than I would normally enjoy and I found myself needing to shake it off after I'd finished it.
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LibraryThing member ktreads22
2.5 rounded up. Another mystery novel down for 2022, but this one was kind of a disappointment. I almost didn't finish it. It took me two months to finally drudge through it because it could not ever seem to hold my attention.
The premise of the story is that Jess, fleeing from her life in London,
Jess doesn’t ever seem to be actually worried about actually finding her brother with how often she gets distracted by other things in the apartment. None of her clues lead her to why her brother might be missing except about maybe 65% into the book. The other half of the book just goes into how mysterious (snooty) the other tenants are and how Jess doesn’t fit in. Also goes into detail about their sex lives for I guess reasons? (shrug)
I’m disappointed, because I LOVED The Guest List , and I wanted this book to be just as good. But the mystery of this novel seems to just get lost in the exposition of backstory and no forward progress is made for the majority of the book.
The premise of the story is that Jess, fleeing from her life in London,
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comes to Paris to stay with her brother. While she’s traveling to him he goes missing, only leaving behind a very vague clue hidden in a voice message that quite literally takes her two days to listen to. Jess doesn’t ever seem to be actually worried about actually finding her brother with how often she gets distracted by other things in the apartment. None of her clues lead her to why her brother might be missing except about maybe 65% into the book. The other half of the book just goes into how mysterious (snooty) the other tenants are and how Jess doesn’t fit in. Also goes into detail about their sex lives for I guess reasons? (shrug)
I’m disappointed, because I LOVED The Guest List , and I wanted this book to be just as good. But the mystery of this novel seems to just get lost in the exposition of backstory and no forward progress is made for the majority of the book.
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LibraryThing member bearette24
Well-written, but not all the plot twists were believable. Still, it held my attention.
LibraryThing member sbenne3
This is a pretty good thriller. I do get a bit tired of weak lead female characters and some of the twists were predictable, but all in all it held my attention well and the ending was unexpected.
LibraryThing member marciablnc
I found this book too dark for my taste. The family was so dysfunctional. Sorry.
LibraryThing member smik
Ben's half-sister Jess is arriving from London. She talks to Ben on the phone, but when she arrives at his very exclusive apartment building three hours later the gates are locked and he is gone.
Jess manages to find her way into the building and then into Ben's apartment which she know is on the
The story focuses on Jess's search for Ben, her quest to find out what has happened to him. There are 5 apartments, plus a concierge's cabin. Ben is a journalist and Jess suspects that he is chasing a story but when she finds his wallet and the keys to his Moped she suspects foul play. She thinks perhaps the residents of the apartments know what has happened to him, but they are blocking her efforts at discovery.
Gradually Jess begins to discover what Ben has previously found out about the residents.
As with most of Foley's other books there are a couple of twists in the tale. There are multiple narratives, and a lot of juggling of past and present, just to keep the reader on his/her toes.
Jess manages to find her way into the building and then into Ben's apartment which she know is on the
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third floor.The story focuses on Jess's search for Ben, her quest to find out what has happened to him. There are 5 apartments, plus a concierge's cabin. Ben is a journalist and Jess suspects that he is chasing a story but when she finds his wallet and the keys to his Moped she suspects foul play. She thinks perhaps the residents of the apartments know what has happened to him, but they are blocking her efforts at discovery.
Gradually Jess begins to discover what Ben has previously found out about the residents.
As with most of Foley's other books there are a couple of twists in the tale. There are multiple narratives, and a lot of juggling of past and present, just to keep the reader on his/her toes.
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LibraryThing member nivramkoorb
This is probably the worst book I have read in the last 15 years during which I have read over 700 books. Hard to believe that this author has a great reputation for this genre. A mystery should be a mystery with somewhat believable plot twists. The writing style should be pleasant and keep your
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interest. This book was set in Paris and Foley kept using French phrases and then translating them immediately afterword. 368 pages of this!! Jess the main character had no back story to support her ability to search for his missing half brother. How anyone could think that this was a thriller. Also the portrayal of Paris as this dark place with danger behind every corner was totally not the Paris I know. I finished it trying to see if it could be saved but the ending was ridiculous. DON'T READ THIS BOOK!!!! Show Less
LibraryThing member lauralkeet
When Jess arrives at her brother’s flat in Paris she is surprised to find he’s not at home, despite having communicated with him earlier in the day. In his apartment there are signs of an abrupt, possibly unplanned departure, and other clues which might indicate something even worse. Jess makes
Jess is persistent in her inquiries, and as she digs deeper the narrative voice rotates among the residents. The puzzle pieces become more numerous but also begin to fit together. Or do they? Just when you think you’ve figured it all out, this thriller delivers a new twist. Each character’s story is complex and the overall tone is dark and almost oppressive. I wanted to get to the bottom of it, but at the same time get out of there as quickly as possible. Thankfully Lucy Foley’s fast pacing made that possible.
While I enjoyed the pacing and overall creepiness of this novel, it has its flaws. The characters were one-dimensional and not very believable. Jess speaks no French and yet is able to navigate situations that would surely have required a vocabulary larger than “oui” and “croissant.” French characters speak in French, but their dialogue always includes an English translation in the same sentence, as if it were actually spoken that way. And Paris as a setting fails to deliver; this story could have been set anywhere.
Ultimately this book was good but not great.
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contact with other residents in the building as well as the concierge, to see if anyone had seen Ben recently. They are generally cold and unhelpful, and with each passing hour Jess becomes increasingly certain something has happened to Ben.Jess is persistent in her inquiries, and as she digs deeper the narrative voice rotates among the residents. The puzzle pieces become more numerous but also begin to fit together. Or do they? Just when you think you’ve figured it all out, this thriller delivers a new twist. Each character’s story is complex and the overall tone is dark and almost oppressive. I wanted to get to the bottom of it, but at the same time get out of there as quickly as possible. Thankfully Lucy Foley’s fast pacing made that possible.
While I enjoyed the pacing and overall creepiness of this novel, it has its flaws. The characters were one-dimensional and not very believable. Jess speaks no French and yet is able to navigate situations that would surely have required a vocabulary larger than “oui” and “croissant.” French characters speak in French, but their dialogue always includes an English translation in the same sentence, as if it were actually spoken that way. And Paris as a setting fails to deliver; this story could have been set anywhere.
Ultimately this book was good but not great.
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LibraryThing member RandyMetcalfe
Paris. A huge apartment in a posh neighbourhood. The perfect refuge when things go sour over in England. Sometimes it’s useful to have an older half-brother. But where is he? Jess is alone in her brother’s apartment in Paris and getting desperate. Ben is missing and she fears that something has
Lucy Foley keeps her readers guessing as she juggles a host of characters all with motive and opportunity. She feeds information like crumbs to les petits oiseaux. Jess is engagingly feisty yet vulnerable. But her troubled youth can in no way prepare her for the nest of vipers she now finds herself among. Her allies are usually not quite what they seem. So it looks like she will have to rely on herself. As usual.
Very enjoyable even for those not particularly keen on this genre. Recommended.
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happened to him. Meanwhile, the other inhabitants of the apartment building are all curiously hostile. Is it her? Or was it Ben? She’s got to find him.Lucy Foley keeps her readers guessing as she juggles a host of characters all with motive and opportunity. She feeds information like crumbs to les petits oiseaux. Jess is engagingly feisty yet vulnerable. But her troubled youth can in no way prepare her for the nest of vipers she now finds herself among. Her allies are usually not quite what they seem. So it looks like she will have to rely on herself. As usual.
Very enjoyable even for those not particularly keen on this genre. Recommended.
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LibraryThing member quirkylibrarian
Creepy and disturbing page-turner with a too-quick, too-convenient, disappointingly written ending. The tension builds and builds, and then…pbbbbbpppptttt. But entertaining enough.
LibraryThing member BDartnall
Intriguing, multiple narrators, tense & foreboding. Readers not really given enough to know who MIGHT have killed her brother, and then there's a surprise reveal at the end that completely changes the "find the murderer" trajectory. A bit contrived for my taste and a bit superficial, esp for the
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serious criminal enterprise the "family" has built their fortune upon... but a fast read. Show Less
LibraryThing member susan.h.schofield
This was a slow-moving psychological thriller. It just didn't click with me for some reason - I didn't hate the book but I also wouldn't go out of my way to read it or recommend it. I didn't really connect with the characters and found all of them to be very unlikeable. I would have liked more of a
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backstory for Jess and Ben. That being said the writing is good and I am sure Lucy Foley fans will enjoy it. Thanks to the publisher for the ARC. Show Less
LibraryThing member VanessaCW
Jess arrives in Paris to visit her brother, Ben, only to find he has disappeared without a trace from the apartment building where he lives. Trying to discover just what has happened to him and his whereabouts, Jess comes across some mysterious neighbours who are not very forthcoming and an even
I have to admit to finding this completely gripping. I found it such a page turner, I literally couldn’t put it down. Rosemary’s Baby meets Thoroughly Modern Millie springs to mind, if only just the vibes. The apartment building even has a creepy laundry room in the basement complete with wine cellar. There are plenty of twists and turns and it kept me on the edge of my seat throughout. I did guess a few of them but loved the twist at the end. Full of oddball and eccentric characters, an entertaining plot line and with an atmospheric setting, this makes for a fun and riveting psychological thriller. I loved it.
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weirder concierge. She soon finds herself in the midst of some very peculiar goings on.I have to admit to finding this completely gripping. I found it such a page turner, I literally couldn’t put it down. Rosemary’s Baby meets Thoroughly Modern Millie springs to mind, if only just the vibes. The apartment building even has a creepy laundry room in the basement complete with wine cellar. There are plenty of twists and turns and it kept me on the edge of my seat throughout. I did guess a few of them but loved the twist at the end. Full of oddball and eccentric characters, an entertaining plot line and with an atmospheric setting, this makes for a fun and riveting psychological thriller. I loved it.
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Awards
Audie Award (Finalist — Thriller/Suspense — 2023)
British Book Award (Shortlist — 2023)
NPR: Books We Love (2022)
Los Angeles Public Library Best of the Year (Fiction — 2022)
LibraryReads (Monthly Pick — February 2022)
Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List (Selection — 2023)
Pages
368
ISBN
0063003058 / 9780063003057