By far my favorite Foley book yet! Intense, suspenseful and full of twists and turns. This one will keep you up past your bedtime.

Desperate, and seeking a fresh start, Jess shows up to her half-brothers apartment with very little notice. She could tell he wasn't thrilled that she was popping back up in his life, but she never expected him to ghost her. The longer he is missing, the more suspicious she gets. Especially in such a strange and creepy building, with an odd assortment of neighbors.

As a Foley fan, I was a bit disappointed in this one. The cast of characters was wild enough (I would expect nothing less from her), but it was almost too much. I don't care what floor they are on in the building each chapter, I don't need all the extra affairs/appearance of affairs (seemingly just to fill space), and I don't know...maybe I watch too many crime shows but the trafficking route just fell a little flat for me. Also, knowing absolutely zero French, I grew tired of reading it and/or translations of it.

I will admit that I did enjoy the twist at the end and I absolutely did not see it coming. Again, exactly what I expect from Foley. I only wish I enjoyed the large chunk of the middle as much as I did the ending. I really, really wanted to like this more than I did. It is also worth noting that I am in a bit of a funk right now and enjoy very little...so it may be more me than the book. I will say, though, that I enjoyed The Guest List far more.

I thought this book started off great, and had lots of surprises at the end. However, the middle part sort of dragged for me, and I could guess where it was basically going. Still, a solid, entertaining read. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

While this book had a some surprise elements to it that certainly got my attention, I did not find the book thrilling. There were moments of suspense but for the majority of the book it was sedate. I really wanted a high-stakes, thrilling mystery that had me white-knuckling the pages and this wasn't that. Not a bad read, just not what I was expecting.

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Needing a fresh start Jess moves to Paris to live temporary at her half brother’s apartment. He is not too keen about it and he soon goes missing. On arrival she wonders how he is able to afford to live in his place.

As he continues to go missing, she will meet the neighbours and the secrets people in her brothers life who may or may not have something to do with him being missing. Who can she trust to tell her the truth?

A rich collection of characters who will keep you guessing.

The Paris Apartment
by Lucy Foley
Pub Date: February 22, 2022
William Morrow
I have read everything Foley has written and loved her writing. Once again, Foley writes a riveting crime drama, set in Paris, with great characters that will keep your interest from beginning to end, needing to know what happened to Ben as seen through the eyes of Jess.
Thanks to William Morrow and NetGalley for the ARC. I am highly recommending this book. Our patrons are excited to read it.
5 stars

Jess is running away from a horrid life to start fresh with her brother, Ben, who reluctantly invites her to his Paris apartment. Upon arriving, she finds an empty room and no sign of her brother. She settles in and tries to unravel the mystery of his disappearance and how it relates to the building.

While it started slow, the suffocating atmosphere of this apartment building kept me going. Jess rarely went out into Paris proper, keeping the action in one location. She gets to know Ben's neighbors, and learns how they knew Ben. It's a slow burn novel, but it drops just enough throughout the story to keep you wanting more until you blow through the last chapters because of the twists that left me gasping. Every time I thought I knew where the story was going, it made a sharp turn to surprise me. The characters are real and flawed in a way that I believed. No one was perfect, everyone a sinner and it made for an excellent read.

Imagine being a down-on-your-luck possible criminal arriving in Paris from London in the hopes of reconnecting with your only family member--the golden boy brother who got a better life than you after his adoption out of your family. Then imagine finding his fantastic, gothic apartment completely empty in a building full of irate characters who clearly have some secret or secrets to hide.

Jess is just that girl--and spoiler alert, you're not going to like her as a character. She's rather lazy, crude, and shiftless, but she's also a young woman left alone and now having to face the reality that her big brother is at best missing. As she tries to uncover what happened to Ben, the atmosphere around the historic apartment building becomes more and more menacing--and Jess quickly realizes that it's not a single inhabitant of the Paris apartment that had a reason to want to harm her brother.

Although I felt that The Paris Apartment lacked the oomph of The Guest List or The Hunting Party, the atmosphere to the whole book mostly makes up for the sometimes plodding speed at which the plot moves. The twists and turns are just as delicious as always, and though the characters are not at all likable, several of them are very memorable.

Even though the beginning starts slow, it never stops once this book goes.

With nowhere else to go, Jess travels from England to Paris to stay at her half-brother's Paris apartment. When she gets there, she can't find him, and all she has is a voice message with a haunting end. To find him, she has to look into what Ben was investigating.

I wasn't interested in the beginning, and I thought this book genre wasn't for me. Then I got to the midway twist, and I was entirely on board.

Jess is an interesting character with a great head on her shoulders, and all she cares about is finding her brother. Even though I did call out some of the twists, the other twists at the end got me.

This review is based on an advanced reader copy provided through Netgalley for an honest review.

Good plot driven thriller, kept me guessing and I didn't see the twist coming at the end! The narrative flips amongst the characters so the plot is slowly revealed through different perspectives.

Lucy Foley, remember her book The Guest List, has done it again with another suspenseful thriller. This time set in the beautiful city of Paris. This atmospheric suspense revolves around a missing man’s strange disappearance and the interesting yet mysterious tenants that live in his building.

Jess Hadley has once again found herself in some trouble. She reaches out to her brother, a British journalist and he tells her where he lives and he will wait up for her to arrive. When Jess arrives her brother is nowhere to be found. After managing to get in the building, Jess has a bad feeling that something just isn’t right with the situation and fears something terrible has happened to her brother.

Overall, this is another hit for Ms. Foley! The book starts out a little hard to get into; it was a bit confusing at first. Keep reading though, the book picks up speed and things are not as they seem.

Lucy Foley's The Paris Apartment is a fast-paced, suspenseful, thrill of a book. While I figured out some answers before the book spelled them out, there was still plenty of mystery and doubt to keep me reading. This is a great choice for fans of Ruth Ware, Liv Constantine, and Heather Gudenkauf. And without giving anything away, but because I appreciate reviews that let me know if I can stomach the book, nothing bad happens to the cat and dog.

I liked that the characters were shades-of-gray people, not completely good, not completely evil. The narrators switched back-and-forth, but that was a plus because the point-of-view changing gave a fuller picture of the story's whos whys and hows. I haven't read anything by Lucy Foley before this book, but I do look forward to reading more from this author.

When I think about a book when I am not actively reading it, I know I am enjoying it. That was the case with the Paris Apartment. I liked the mysterious tenants of the apartment building and was certainly surprised by how they were all connected. You must suspend your belief at some points in the plot. However, it moved quickly and was engaging. You wanted the protagonist to figure out the truth. While being in a country where you don't speak the language is isolating and scary, overall, the book was missing that added element of being cut off from the outside world as it was in The Guest List and the Hunting Party. Those two stories rank higher on my list than the Paris Apartment. Still, I'll be tuned in to whatever this author churns out next.

Jess is looking to escape her life as a barmaid when she plans a sojourn to stay with her half-brother Ben in his new Parisian apartment. When Jess arrives she finds the apartment more grand than she expected but her brother is nowhere to be found. Jess’ concerns grow as she meets the other occupants of this exclusive complex, all of whom seem to be hiding more than they reveal in her search for Ben. Lucy Foley does a wonderful job of creating not only an enviable real estate local but housing it with engaging characters.

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I was drawn to this book because I enjoyed The Guest List, had just finished The Paris Bookseller by Kerry Maher, and am scheduled to go to Paris in May (if Covid doesn’t interfere).
For me, this was a page turner! Full of twist and turns, some characters you are drawn too, some who are very damaged, the fast paced chapters, and a setting you can picture in your mind thanks to the wonderful descriptions by the author. I can highly recommend this book. I am sure it will be a big seller at my bookstore.

Jess goes to Paris to visit her half-brother Ben after she leaves her job and wants a fresh start. She has little money and has asked her brother if she can stay in his apartment. His enthusiasm is underwhelming but she has no other choice. When she sees the swanky building he lives in she is surprised. Unfortunately, Ben has vanished. She questions the eccentric neighbors but it seems they all have something to hide. Where is Ben? Is he still alive? And what about the neighbors? An excellent mystery that had me guessing until the end.

First, I love that this story is set in Paris! Lucy Foley does a wonderful job of setting the scene and making readers feel as though they are right there! In this story, the spooky house becomes one of the characters which I LOVE.
The characters are interesting- some are more likeable than others, but I didn't need to like each of them to become completely engrossed in the story. In a whodunnit, I enjoy that several of the characters are unlikeable and suspicious.
The narration of the story is in real time, which ratchets up the suspense. Readers feel as though they are right there, making it pretty impossible to put the book down.

I am a fan of Lucy Foley. The Paris Apartment is a departure from The Hunting Party and The Guest List in that it involves a smaller group of folks with time between each incident that bookends the story.

A case of did he/didn't he keeps the plot rolling. A cast of characters who are deeply flawed present the challenge of determining whether lies told in one area mean that all of the information is a lie.

Like a maze through the legal system and a marriage, the book kept me on my tip toes.

I am a huge fan of Lucy Foley, and I think she is a master of setting and atmosphere. The Paris Apartment did not quite have the same feel as her other novels, and I found it overall to be less compelling. Pages turned slower than I wanted them to.

In The Paris Apartment, Jess is going to stay with her half brother in Paris. She is running from a crappy situation and hopes to get some support from Ben, When she arrives, she gets an odd sense about the building, made even worse when Ben is nowhere to be found. Told in multiple perspectives, there are a lot of tenants of the building, and each of them are scared/ miserable/ hiding secrets.

I think the overall feel is melodramatic. I liked the plot, but the characters were always at a heightened state of fear and looking over their shoulders. The relationships were very flimsy. I just didn't feel the same magic that I did when I read The Hunting Party.

Another great story from Lucy Foley. Great pacing made fast and dynamic by the switch view points. I definitely did not guess that ending. Excellent read! Will recommend to my book clubs.