4/5 stars.

The Paris Apartment is a brilliantly paced mystery which paints an evocative picture of the Parisian upper classes, filled with suspense and intrigue that kept me on the edge of my seat throughout. I loved the fact that there were multiple points of view in the novel – something I don't usually see in mysteries, but which was so interesting – and Foley's characters are well-developed and their relationships full of nuance. The plot was engaging from the first chapter, with just the right amount of little clues to make it engaging but not predictable, and the final fifth of the novel was something else entirely – let's face it, I'm going to be reeling from that ending and some of those reveals for months to come. The Paris Apartment is my first of Lucy Foley's novels, but I know that I'm looking forward to starting The Guest List soon and keeping an eye on her next releases!

*eARC provided by Netgalley and the publishers in exchange for an honest review.*

You know, I have always loved Paris and would really love to live there…just not in No.12 Rue des Amants. Definitely anywhere but that apartment because bad things happen there. It also happens to be the setting of Lucy Foley's impressive new thriller The Paris Aparment (or appartement if you live in France).

The story centres around Jess - herself a bit of a waif and stray - who turns up in Paris to stay with her brother in his apartment. However, when she gets there brother Ben is nowhere to be seen and thus starts Jess's desperate attempt to find her brother.

With a wonderful cast of characters you are constantly kept o your toes trying to figure out who is the bad guy whilst dealing with the uneasy feeling that something worse is going to happen.

Overall, The Paris Apartment is a good story, one that ticks all the boxes for a mystery thriller. Two hearty thumbs up.

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Ben Daniels, Jess’s half-brother, is a journalist living in a Paris Apartment. Jess is running away from her life and contacts him for an escape hole to be. He agrees reluctantly. No one is at the station to meet her on her arrival, and Ben is not answering her texts or calls. On top of all this, she doesn’t speak French!

After breaking into his building and apartment, she finds out that he is missing, and the apartment has been cleared out. The story gets told from 5 different points of view, all of which had secrets, ones that mostly, I didn’t guess. None of these characters are reliable, but more because of their secrets than lying.

I found this novel had a lot of high anticipation, but the story evolved quite slowly. The Paris Apartment is well written, but I had to drag myself through the story until the ‘twist’, which is good.

I am a great fan of Lucy Foley’s work, she is a brilliant author, but this won’t be one of my favourites.

I would like to thank #NetGalley and #HarperCollinsUK for the opportunity of reading this advanced copy in exchange for my own honest review. This book was due for release on March 3rd, 2022.


Rating 2.5 / 5.0
This book was published in March 2022.

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley is atmospheric and suspenseful up to a point but soon the plot does feel a bit contrived. Some of the ‘twists’ aren’t really ‘twisty’ (a few I found downright ridiculous) and much of the final reveal isn’t completely unpredictable though the build-up is gripping enough. Though the pace drags a bit in the middle, the chapters are short, it reads fast and is not unnecessarily lengthy. Overall though I didn’t dislike Lucy Foley’s The Paris Apartment, I’m yet to be truly impressed by any of her novels.

I always enjoy Lucy Foley's books, and this one was another thrilling mystery! I enjoyed the Parisian backdrop and the suffocating apartment setting. I didn't see some of the reveals coming, and I found the spiky main character's voice refreshingly different to the other adult thrillers I've read lately.

“It’s not about where you came from. What kind of shit might have happened to you in the past. It’s about who you are. What you do with the opportunities life presents to you.”

The Paris Apartment
by Lucy Foley

An apartment full of suspicious characters
A troubled young woman on the run
A missing journalist
Blood stains on floor
A cat that's not friendly to visitors
A dysfunctional family
An old building with secret passageways

A mix of all this gives us a page turning story of how Jess reaches Paris to find her brother Ben missing and all the trouble she goes through to find him. Told in multiple perspectives, the author keeps us guessing for answers. The story just slowly builds up it's layers, with timelines of narration skipping to past and present.
The chapters were short giving away nothing till the final reveal.

Until halfway through the book, with nothing happening it felt like a slow read but after a twist, i was hooked to know what was going on in the creepy apartment. Even though i liked her previous books more, this one is really a good read if you love reading mystery/thrillers like Agatha Christie's books!!

Lucy Foley really never disappoints. Bit of a slow burner but definitely a solid, pacey read filled with twists and turns that keep you gripped. Thumbs up from me.

Wow this was so twisty and had so many suprises I could barely keep up. I have not read Lucy Foley before despite having her books in my tbr pile (my tbr pile is huge!) but I will definately be nudging them up my reading list now. SUch a great read and one that her fans will love im sure.

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The Paris Apartment ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

This is one of my highly anticipated books and it didn't disappoint me, but it didn't exceed my expectations.

Jess seeked a fresh start and decided to stay with her brother who lives in Paris. She only found out that he disappeared from the wealthy apartment right before her arrival and the residents seem to know something about it.

I love how it began. The eerie atmosphere and the tension were all there. Following Jess and other residents and trying to figure out what's happened to the brother was really intriguing and I enjoyed it a lot. However, I felt a bit flat, nothing really happened in the process of pursuing the brother's whereabouts. Moreover, the twists at the end were ok.
I wanted to see more character development. It was mainly Jess's pov, but I felt she was just running around, didn't learn many things about her or she's changed.

I really enjoyed the eerie atmosphere in this book, I recommend this book to spooky mystery readers😊

The setting this time is a Paris apartment, the cast are the occupants of the apartment and the question is, where has Ben gone? Jess, his sister unfolds the mystery of the apartment and it’s occupants. I think I found this read the most clever of Lucy Foley’s books so far, a few more twists than her previous books that keep you guessing. An extra point when I listened into the audio version of the book for the multiple narrators that added to the drama of the narration. If you like a thriller that’s not too scary this one is for you. Many thanks to Netgalley and HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction for this ARC

I absolutely love the mystery genre but I just couldn’t get along with this book. The first 75% was incredibly slow and I just didn’t warm to any of the characters at all. The final part was better, story picked up but I’m afraid it’s not one that I’ll recommend.

Jess is going through a bad time, and decides to flee her situation and visit her brother in Paris.
When she gets there, she finds him living in a lavish apartment only hr isn’t there, he’s missing without a sign.
Jess goes on a quest to find Ben, starting with his rich friend who lives in the same block…
The other residents of the apartment block, all affluent all equally have their own issues, but seem to been quietly suspicious when it comes to Ben’s disappearance.
The story leads Jess to a seedy Paris underworld, with links back to the home in which Ben is living.

Lucy Foley’s ‘the hunting party’ was brilliant, a page turner which had me addicted. Her subsequent books ‘The Guest List’ and ‘The Paris Apartment’ all fallen slightly short of the former.

The stories are interesting enough to keep me reading, her stories always have an epic unguessable twist at the end, however with this book; I struggled finding a likeable character.

This book is an easy read by the pool for mystery/ suspense lovers.
I’ll still read Lucy’s books.. as overall I do enjoy them.

Thank you Netgalley for my free ARC copy in return for an honest review.

I adore Lucy Foley's books and this one was another great read. I did find it slow to begin with, but I am not sure whether that was just because I was reading in January and had had a bit of a reading slump just before this.

As with Lucy's other books, there is a reveal that I just simply did not see coming. Up until that, I had been wondering what on earth was going on between all of the residents of this Paris apartment block! The characters are a mix of intriguing, weird, horrid and sympathetic and it all creates an excellent melting pot that is just ripe for scandal.

I loved the ending as it was so much better than I expected. I cannot wait for Lucy's next offering.

This is definitely my favourite from Foley so far, I can’t wait to see what exciting thriller she brings out next!!

In The Paris Apartment we meet Jess, she’s left her job, is a long and after a fresh start. She seeks refuge at her brother Ben’s apartment, only he’s missing when she arrives. Things only get more intense and suspicious, especially one she starts asking the neighbours questions that no one wants to answer.

I found The Paris Apartment to be such a quick and easy book to read, and unlike her other books I found I enjoyed every chapter. I loved everything Foley uncovered in this one, I was genuinely shocked by the ending.

The Paris Apartment is a brilliant, pacey read filled with a plethora of intriguing characters and a wonderful backdrop.

The novel begins with a prologue from Ben, which gets you hooked from the outset. A chapter from Jess follows, as you begin to follow her amateur detective attempts to locate half-brother Ben. It then cycles through with chapters from Sophie, Mimi, Nick and the Concierge. The characters all live in the apartment block, so you hear from each resident. I liked this ‘small town’ dynamic and it felt like a really original ‘locked room’ delivery.

You gain a thorough insight in to each character, their lives and their past through the first person perspective chapters. As with other Lucy Foley novels, the multiple characters make the story and you feel like you’re very central, in the thick of it and truly a part of what’s going on.

The history of Ben’s arrival, his interactions with all the neighbours and the memories up until his disappearance were fascinating. The tit bits of information drip fed through the past kept me interested and I flew through the book eager to know the outcome!

A tangled web of secrets, lies and deceit are wrapped up in the apartment block, which is a really unique, yet believable setting. The comings and goings, the mystery and the intrigue revolve around the people within it’s walls. It’s extremely easy to imagine all of the detail, situations and occurrences due to Foley’s wonderful descriptions and eye for detail.

There are many interspersed French phrases and words right through the novels pages. As well as being a test for me on my somewhat rusty limited French, it was a really nice touch and made the location feel more authentic. The words also serve as a reminder of the whereabouts, just incase you forget!

Every time you think you’ve got something figured out, you realise you haven’t. It’s a constant chasing of clues, following the snippets of information and attempting to understand what’s going on. A breadcrumb trail at it’s finest and a complete whirlwind in true Lucy Foley style. It might just be my favourite book yet!

3.5*

I was looking forward to reading the third nail biting, murder mystery, whodunnit by Lucy Foley, after previously having read The Hunting Lodge and The Guest List.
The Paris Apartment is similar in setting to her previous two books, the style is glamorous although “off” and it’s in a predominantly enclosed setting.

Unfortunately i felt this book was a bit lack lustre in comparison to her previous books. It wasn’t bad, but was missing something and was rather slow moving with at times clunky dialogue. Although I didn’t enjoy The Paris Apartment as much as her first two books, this wouldn’t stop me from reading anything of Lucy’s in the future.

With many thanks to NetGalley and HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction for the opportunity to read this ARC, in return for an honest and unbiased review.

Lucy Foley has done it again!! The Paris Apartment is an atmospheric, slow-burning thriller. The story is filled to the brim with twists that will keep the reader guessing whodunnit. The locked-room mystery is solvable with many red herrings and possible suspects. The Paris setting is beautifully written and vivid. You can feel the Paris air. Highly recommended!!

Oh my goodness, this is clever.

Almost every character in this book appears to be a terrible person - even the apparent heroine of the plot. At first I really didn't like the book at all, and wondered whether to call it a day and move on to the next, but then I got hooked. Everybody was breaking into each other's apartments. Nobody seemed to be safe. Nobody was entirely who they seemed to be.

When Ben's sister, Jess, turns up at the apartment he's staying in, she's surprised to find it's a really swanky place but even more surprised to find Ben's not there. Something bad has happened to him and she has a voicemail to prove that point. Ben's been working as a journalist and was onto something 'hot' but it'll take a large part of the book for us to piece it all together.

I enjoyed it a lot.
Thanks to Negalley and the publishers for my copy.

3.5/5

In The Paris Apartment we follow Jess, who goes to Paris to stay with her brother (who isn't quite thrilled about it) but when she turns up, he's missing. Despite there being several other apartments, nobody appears to know what's happened - and so its on to Jess to investigate. But everyone is hiding something, and everyone is a suspect.

This was VERY Lucy Foley and I enjoyed it just as much as I enjoyed her other books. Some bits were predictable and some bits a lil bit unnecessary or unbelievable, and there was absolutely 0 reason for it to be set in Paris, but it was a largely satisfying n twisty locked-room thriller that I'd definitely recommend for an easy read.

Big thanks to NetGalley, HarperCollins UK, and the author for this e-ARC. Available to buy now!

Typically good fare from Lucy Foley...great whodunnit mystery...everyone has reasons and secrets...twisty turny tome...heck, this has just about everything! 5* from me! Many thanks to Netgalley.co.uk, the publisher and author for allowing me to read and review this ARC.