Suspense set in a Paris Apartment with Lucy Foley

Submitted: 18th February 2022

Hole yourself up in the Paris Apartment

Lucy Foley has done it again. A top thriller/mystery/suspense novel about very ordinary people in strange circumstances. This time, a sister running from misery heads to Paris to see her brother. Except when she gets there, he’s nowhere to be seen. His new neighbours are very strange but surely they know something. Problem, is, will they be willing to tell her and does she really want to know?

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Boarding Pass Information : The Paris apartment

Destination : A Paris apartment

Author guide: Lucy Foley

Genre: Suspense and mystery

Food and drink to accompany: French toast with pate and cheese.

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Oh sweet mother of all the books. This starts of with a bang and ends with a bang with a bunch of fireworks in between. This book is creepy, brilliantly woven with multiple POVs and you are immediately trapped in that flat with its weird inhabitants. Living in a flat where your brother was last seen? No one has seen him in a while or heard anything strange? You turn up with barely any French and try to find out where he is.

Oh mon dieu. The French apartment setting is brilliantly conveyed. The doors slamming, the noisy neighbours, the concierge with their questions and the comings and goings of the inner courtyard. You are an ant in this city, and every apartment is a microcosm of the city at large. Speaking of which, the novel is set against the backdrop of the riots and tis contrasts nicely with the turmoil going on inside that quaint and seemingly quiet apartment block.

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No one and nothing is what it seems. The block is inhabited by the weird and wonderful and like Jess the main character, you can never know who to trust. The language barrier and culture shock add to Jess´ confusion. How do you search for someone who has literally just disappeared into thin air? The police who fob her off, the neighbour who slams the door, they are all here…

This packs a real punch and I felt my reading speed go up as I read. What is that concierge up to ? Who really knows the lady who lives in the penthouse apartment? What about that seemingly attractive French neighbour? Wait until you are invited to the party in the cellar… Jeepers, that had me feeling shaky.

The tension, pacing and characterization are just brilliant. Lucy Foley has really ramped up the tension and pulled a blinder with this novel. I probably would not want to go with her to Paris any time son. She knows the places where dark things happen…..all against the twinkly gtourisy lights of a city we think we know so well.

This is the side of Paris you haven´t seen. One character in the novel goes to see Madame Butterfly at the theatre. I think the Phantom of the Opera would have been more appropriate but the butterfly, although beautiful, doesn´t start out that way…..

Prepare to have your sanity tested and your mind well and Foley twisted.