![]() There are hidden staircases and dumbwaiters, an extensive wine cave in the basement, and the abandoned maid’s quarters. While this isn’t a ghost story, the apartment building has gothic, haunted house elements to it. ![]() What I loved about this book is that the apartment building was like a character in itself. ![]() There’s Sophie the socialite Mimi, a teenage girl struggling with her identity Antoine, a rage-filled alcoholic Nick, presumably one of Ben’s closest friends and the concierge, a woman who appears and disappears like a wraith. Christopher medal left behind with a broken chain.Īs Jess takes up the search for her brother we meet the eccentric cast of characters that occupy his apartment building. The floor in front of the door appears to have been bleached, and she finds his St. Ben’s cat has bloodstains in its fur, stains that don’t belong to the animal. At first she assumes he just stepped out and forgot her arrival, but more troubling clues begin to appear. When she arrives at Ben’s apartment she finds him missing. ![]() Jess is broke and possibly in a tiny bit of trouble with the law, so she goes to Paris to stay with her brother Ben. The Paris Apartment is told from multiple points of view, with the heroine being Jess, a barmaid from England. It’s fairly uncommon for me to be completely surprised by the ending of a psychological thriller, but Lucy Foley does it every time. At the risk of sounding conceited, when you read as many thrillers as I do, at some point it becomes easy to predict the twist. ![]()
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