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    The Paris Apartment: A Novel
    The Paris Apartment: A Novel
    The Paris Apartment: A Novel
    Audiobook12 hours

    The Paris Apartment: A Novel

    Written by Lucy Foley

    Narrated by Clare Corbett, Daphne Kouma, Julia Winwood and

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    Don't miss Lucy Foley's new book, The Midnight Feast, coming June 18th!

    THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    “Told in rotating points of view, this Tilt-A-Whirl of a novel brims with jangly tension – an undeniably engrossing guessing game.”  — Vogue

    ""[A] clever, cliff-hanger-filled thriller."" — People

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List comes a new locked room mystery, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide… 

    Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’t say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up – to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? – he’s not there.

    The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig into her brother’s situation, and the more questions she has. Ben’s neighbors are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. Jess may have come to Paris to escape her past, but it’s starting to look like it’s Ben’s future that’s in question.

    The socialite – The nice guy – The alcoholic – The girl on the verge – The concierge

    Everyone's a neighbor. Everyone's a suspect. And everyone knows something they’re not telling.

    Editor's Note

    Eerie atmosphere…

    When Jess Hadley’s brother ends up missing, she asks the tenants of his creepy, but once elegant apartment building about his whereabouts and each one deflects her questions. She soon finds out the building tenants are members of the same family who share a dark secret. Between the eerie atmosphere and quickly-paced plot, Foley sweeps readers away on an exciting thrill ride through Paris with plenty of unexpected twists and turns.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateFeb 22, 2022
    ISBN9780063003088
    Author

    Lucy Foley

    Lucy Foley studied English Literature at Durham and UCL universities. She then worked for several years as a fiction editor in the publishing industry – during which time she also wrote her debut, The Book of Lost and Found. Lucy now writes full-time, and is busy travelling (for research, naturally!) and working on her next novel. Visit her Facebook page at www.facebook.com/LucyFoleyAuthor and follow her on Twitter @lucyfoleytweets

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    • 2/5
      This book is soo predictable that I can't help but laugh. I enjoyed the audiobook but if I were to read it, I would definitely be in a reading slump. It's painfully slow, I didn't like any of the characters, the story dragged on forever. Definitely would not recommend this book. If you wanna try this book, just listen to the audiobook!

      2 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      I was so excited to read this book and unfortunately it fell flat for me. The ending was great, but the beginning and middle just didn’t excite me.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Poor plot poor style and no proper character development. And I didn’t care about the clichés and clownish representation of the French in general.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      I was really looking forward to this book but it just didn’t grab me. Very disappointed.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      This could actually be better than the Guest List. I love the twists in the book. I think it came together very good in the end.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Hard to start and confusing. It felt a lot less structured than her other works.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Narrated by Clare Corbett, Daphne Kohima, Julia Winwood, Sope Drisu, Sofia Zervudaci, and Charlie Anson. Jess needs to get out of town quickly, so she decides to go visit her brother Ben in Paris. Ben lives in a large apartment, but on the evening Jess arrives, she hasn’t heard from her brother. With growing concern, Jess begins to ask her neighbors when they last saw her brother.

      Jess finds that Ben’s neighbors are strange and they have something to hide. Each neighbor has had their own interaction with Ben, which makes them all seem guilty.

      With a slow burn and an eerie thriller, Lucy Folley gives us another suspenseful whodunnit. If you’ve only seen Only Murders in the Building (Hulu), this book gave me similar vibes where the majority of the story takes place in the apartment building and everyone is a suspect.

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      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This was an absolute WHIPLASH of twists and turns!! 1 day read!!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Awesome book! Well written with some unexpected twists and turns!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Really good suspense, and very nice unpredicted ending. For me at least

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Loved the plot twists. Couldn’t stop listening. Multiple voices a great addition.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Extremely dull as a book with a weird narrative structure and a wish fulfillment ending.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      4.5 stars for me.

      I could have gone for a darker ending to be honest, but overall, I enjoyed this full cast with the twist at the end.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Well written, suspensefullly unfolding from different perspectives.I would read other books from this author.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book, it moved quickly.

      I love when you can find a book that pulls you in on the journey of a "Who done it."

      Following Jess, one of the main characters on her journey to finding out what happened to her brother and her journey of finding parts of herself was enjoyable. She found her self empowerment along the way to also uncovering some very dark secrets.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      I couldn’t finish it, none of the characters were likable!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I enjoyed this book. Itbtournes


      Great read. Not predictable as I had originally feared. This is probably the author’s best book that I’ve read so far. Definitely worth the read!




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    • 5/5
      I really appreciated the writing and flow of this book. It reads a bit like an old Agatha Christie novel whereas suspects are introduced and built upon one by one. The chapters are written from 5 different character perspectives with most chapters being quite short. There isn't a lot of back and forth in time either, which I liked.

      The overall creepiness factor is fairly low, but I was in suspense throughout, and even when I thought I'd figured out whodunit, I was wrong. There are also some early twists; the author doesn't save them all for the end.

      I found the plot to be plausible and all my questions were answered with no loose ends. As thrillers go, this was a very satisfying listen for me.

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    • 3/5
      Took me a long time to get into this book. There were twists but it wasn't that fun
    • 4/5
      I did not like the characters too much and the pacing was a bit slow at times. But all in all suspenseful and entertaining.
    • 3/5
      Enjoyed the plot twist and background of some characters but hated the main character.
    • 3/5
      Was a bit hard to get into, but the twist was interesting.
    • 5/5
      Most amazing book ever so many twists and turns. You are never going to predict how this book will end. You are never going to predict who did it.
    • 3/5
      I’m not a fan of Jess and her brother, they are opportunists with no sense of justice. Their desire to expose truth is not driven by ethics. The story which is quite good suffers from too much ambiguity.
    • 5/5
      This book grabbed me ad wouldn't let go. It was very well written, but you have to pay attention to which narrator you're reading. I thought knew what was going on, but I was really wrong on so many fronts. A terrific book.
    • 3/5
      Intriguing, multiple narrators, tense & foreboding. Readers not really given enough to know who MIGHT have killed her brother, and then there's a surprise reveal at the end that completely changes the "find the murderer" trajectory. A bit contrived for my taste and a bit superficial, esp for the serious criminal enterprise the "family" has built their fortune upon... but a fast read.
    • 3/5
      The Paris Apartment isn’t fine literature -- but it certainly hit the spot for a quick and twisty mystery. Down-and-out Jess is visiting her brother Ben in Paris, but on her arrival, Ben is missing. What happened to him? The secret lurks in Ben’s lux apartment building and its strange assortment of residents. Lucy Foley captures the ambiance of Paris well and crafts some memorable characters, such as Sophie. Recommended.
    • 2/5
      Very boring
      Also the speed of it is strange, I generally do not speed up too much what I listen to, but here 2x still seemed slow
    • 2/5
      Honestly I thought there was so much filler I nearly stopped reading it. The end was sort of a balloon slowly letting out air until it just went flat. The over done romance novel sex descriptions and Mimi's voice was like nails scraping a metal wall. Just meh.
    • 5/5
      This book was amazingly written and kept me wanting more and more as I say on the edge of my seat trying to figure everything out. The plot twist left my jaw dropped and rereading chapters. Definitely one to keep in the library!