I am so glad that several years ago, Lucy Foley switched from writing romance to thrillers, as each one she has published so far has been extraordinary. The Paris Apartment is no exception and will have readers up all night, turning the pages. The setting, an apartment on luxurious Rue des Amants, is beautifully evoked, with the apartment engendering a sense of claustrophia and darkness in the midst of the City of Light. Jess Hadley is unaware of quite how much menace the apartment harbours when she arrives, surprised to find that her journalist brother Ben who had invited her is missing. Any of his apartment neighbours could be suspects: the ever-watchful concierge, the rather naïve girl preoccupied with Ben, the trophy wife, perhaps even the shifty policemen…. Bit by bit, individual secrets leach from the dark, undisturbed corners of the building and it becomes clear that this will be no ordinary investigation….
Having thoroughly convinced her readers with atmospheric thrillers set in the Scottish Highlands and a remote island off the coast of Ireland, Lucy Foley does it again with The Paris Apartment. Superbly written and hugely enjoyable right to the end! I wish to thank the publishers and NetGalley for the free ARC I was kindly provided in exchange for posting this honest, unbiased review.

I didn't love this book because I just don't think enough happens throughout the course of the whole thing. She gets there, she looks for Ben, can't find him, and repeat. I did like the ending of the book, but I felt it was far too repetitive a storyline for far too long.

Jess is really excited to visit her half brother Ben in a beautiful old apartment block in Paris. But he has gone missing and there are blood stains in Ben's apartment. Jess starts to investigate, yet inhabitants remain quiet; obviously all keep secrets, even though nothing goes unseen in this house. Is Jess as unwanted guest in danger too?
A mystery lies behind the door of apartment three.

The story is compelling and told from multiple perspectives, however a bit confusing, messy and slow. Also, from my point of view, too predictable. The characters are pretty dark and not very likeable. So much is going on but descriptions are shallow and two-dimensional.

3,5/5

I loved this book! There was so much going on and so many hidden secrets all set in the one building. I couldn't figure out what had happened and literally couldn't put it down for the last third of the book. Very well written and enjoyable

Lucy Foley has done it again. A suspenseful mystery with plenty of twists and turns!

Jess turns up at her brother Ben's apartment in Paris. Ben is nowhere to be seen despite just speaking with her a few hours later. Looking for answers on his disappearance she starts to uncover secrets about his neighbours!


Great book, I really enjoyed it and would definitely recommend! Lucy Foley has a certain style about her work and I really enjoy her writing and suspensefulness!

Overall a really solid novel. It took time to get into though and I nearly didn’t bother! I’m glad I did as it redeems itself well, a good creepy read overall.

I enjoyed this book which had plenty of intrigue and a real sense of creepy suspension. However I did find it a little slow going and hard to get into until quite near the end. Jess the main character was also a little unlikable! The ending is pretty good though, with a twist I didn’t guess!

My thanks to Netgalley for my copy of The Paris Apartment. I found this book intriguing but very slow going until at leat two thirds of the way through when I was rewarded for my patience with twists and turns I could never have forseen. There were a few inconsistencies along the way which, as ever, would have been spotted by a good, old-fashioned proof reader but they didn't affect the actual story, just a lack of attention to detail.

I liked this book. The story was good and gripping but I found it was put together in a bit of a confusing, messy manner. Told from multiple perspectives, a crime has been committed. Ben has gone missing and his sister Jess is worried. He has been living in Paris when Jess his half sister arrives to stay with him. So she’s shocked to discover he’s not there and his apartment has blood stains in it. The apartment block and its inhabitants all have something to hide. But what? There were some good storylines but I found the characters quite two dimensional - Jess for example is constantly stunned that everyone around her is speaking French... in Paris. But I’m sure lots of people will enjoy reading it. I liked the Hunting Party so I would definitely look forward to Foley’s next book.

Lucy Foley continues to get better and better. Every book has been great but this one is a tour de force. Both creepy in its description of the apartment itself and the unnerving energy that its rather strange inhabitants bring to it the story also has the feel of the terror of Jess who has arrived in Paris to find her brother missing from the apartment he has been renting from an old friend. Jess doesn't know who she can trust or if any on the residents are actually helping or hindering her search for Ben. The story takes a turn I had not predicted but it totally works and the denouement is very satisfying!!

A decision to visit her brother unexpectedly involves a mystery. He said he'd be at home waiting but where has he gone? It doesn't feel right, the pieces don't fit together, what are the residents hiding?
Follow the clues and the characters as clues reveal their true intent.
I didn't figure it out and the ending left me astounded.

I really enjoyed this atmospheric mystery from Lucy Foley. She creates a marvellous setting with the house in Paris and the tension builds from the very beginning.
Jess travels to Paris and has arranged to stay with her half brother in his apartment as she has nowhere else to go. When she arrives, her brother is missing but there is a mysterious stain on the floor. As she tries to find out what has happened to her brother, she meets the other inhabitants of the house, all of whom seem to be hiding something.
The story is told from multiple points of view which gives us some insight into the other inhabitants of the house while building up the mystery. The plot is full of twists and turns, some of which you can see coming and others which come completely out of the blue. Nothing in the house in Rue Amants is quite what it first appears.
I had a couple of reservations about the ending and how the story was all tied up but they didn’t really spoil my enjoyment of the story. It’s a great novel and anyone who enjoyed The Guest List should certainly enjoy this.
Thank you to Net Galley and the publishers for my ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Paris, sinister goings on, a disappearance or two, blood stains and a motley collection of characters in a swanky Paris apartment - the perfect setting for a whodunnit, who dun what and what was dun anyway?

None of the characters are particularly likeable so any peril is satisfying. Just when you think you are getting up to speed with the players and the plot another log of intrigue is thrown onto the plot fire. A most enjoyable thriller with twist and turns galore.

I enjoyed this one more than I thought I would, having not been the biggest fan of ‘The Guest List’. Lucy Foley continues to write some rather unsavoury characters as well as the heroine who works it all out to save the day. Each chapter reveals a little more of the family dynamics within the Paris apartment and the goings on are cleverly designed to keep you guessing until then end. Sadly the end lets this book down as it just feels ‘stupid’ Three and a half stars from me but thank you to NetGalley for the advance reader copy.

Wow! This is one of the best books I've read this year and I've read alot!

I must admit I didn't love Lucy Foley's previous two books, but, thought this was amazing.

The premise, an apartment in Paris, the characters, the assumptions we make about the characters at first, and the way the story unfold was genius. A stand out thriller which had me hooked from the start.

Highly recommend

The Paris Apartment is Foley’s best ‘whodunnit’ to date.

Jess has gone to Paris to see her brother Ben but is met with a mystery when he turns out to be missing instead. Jess needs to quickly find out who is involved before she faces danger herself. Enter an electric mix of characters who are all sharing an apartment block. All are suspicious characters and with means and cause to do Ben harm.

Like in Foleys style, each chapter is telling the story from a different characters perspective which I find keeps the pace going as well helps with character development. The plot itself was good with plenty of twists and turns.

A five star read!

This book was quite slow paced to begin with, there was a lot of tension, but it was slow building, and made me feel uncomfortable when the main character, Jess, first arrived at her brother’s apartment in Paris. The whole apartment had a very eerie feeling to it and was written really well, every description given was easy to visualise, and I liked that each room had its own mystery.

The story was told through alternating povs, as there were a lot of characters in the book, all of them living in the same apartment building as the main character, it sometimes got confusing, and I would have to go back to which character’s pov I was reading, but I did really like that every character was mysterious in some way, and they all had their involvement in the story, with very distinct voices.

Once the plot picked up, it was more enjoyable, there were a lot twists that were unexpected, but I don’t think it was my favourite book I have read by the author.

This book is told from 7 different peoples point of views so you need to remember who it is that is talking.
I enjoyed the book, one minute I would be thinking one person had done something, the next someone else but I wouldn’t have guessed the ending.
I thought it was very well written and the characters you can really see a difference to them, they are not one person that have been given various names, each have their own personalities, be that good or bad.
I would certainly recommend this book.

This thriller is told from multiple character perspectives, which are pretty distinct voices and helped by the headings of the characters names so it’s not confusing. The action also starts pretty quickly and it’s definitely pacy, quite a lot of information is held back so I was keen to find out more. However, I found some of the characters less convincing or nuanced than others, particularly Sophie and Mimi, and there’s some British vocabulary from non-British characters that really jumped out and made it more difficult to get into. Overall this was an OK holiday read!

I was so psyched you get the latest Lucy Foley novel, having read her previous books and e joyed them. Unfortunately I really did not like The Paris Apartment. I wanted to give up several times and o ly pushed on because it was an ARC and I felt like I should read it wholly.

There wasn't a single likeable character in the whole book, and so no one that I could support or champion. Despite the changing POV and narrative voices all of the characters sounded the same, flat and shallow. I'm nit sure if it was just the format in the ARC but the narratives skipped from present to past with little designation between so I would be reading away and suddenly realise I'm back in a memory and not present day.

The plot was buried in the last 25% or so, meaning the first 75% was so slow burning that it was barely alight. I was bored and uninterested for the most part. The ending did feel more tense but ended rather neatly and nicely which ruined it for me.

Maybe the slow burn works for some people but that and the lifeless characters just fell flat for me.