The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

Jess is exhausted. It is late and all she wants to do is get into her brother, Ben’s apartment so that she can get herself settled in this new city she’s arrived in. So why isn’t Ben answering his phone? Why isn’t he there to greet her, when she’s come all this way. Granted, she has not given him much notice – a sort of habit for her – but she knows he’d try to be there for her, to the extent he’s been. As she learns more and more about the apartment building he’s been living in for the past few months, and as she meets more of the characters who live there, it becomes more and more worrisome that she hasn’t been able to locate him…

This novel, while just a bit creepy, is also great fun. There are more plot twists here than in almost any other book I’ve read, and I dare anyone to say that they guessed the entirety of the final outcome! You’d think that since we hear what is going on in the minds of each of the characters, with the rotating narration, that we’d be able to figure out what has happened to Ben, but it is quite to the contrary. Rather, it builds the suspense and compounds the complexity of the plot. And each character is utterly complex, colorful and surprising.

This is not the great American novel, but it is absolutely worth the read! Allow yourself the fun!