The Paris Apartment

Jess Hadley turns up in Paris with a suitcase and nowhere else to go, hoping her half-brother Ben will take her in while she outruns trouble back home. But Ben doesn't answer his buzzer, his phone, or his door — and when Jess lets herself into his apartment, she finds it far grander than a freelance journalist should be able to afford, with the smell of bleach in the air and blood matted in his cat's fur.

Ben is gone, and the elegant Haussmann building he lived in is full of people who would rather Jess left: a brittle grande dame, a volatile drunk, a fragile art student, a watchful concierge in her lodge by the door. Each of them knows something about Ben's disappearance, and none of them is telling the truth. As Jess pushes past their locked doors and polished manners, she uncovers a web of secrets binding the residents together — and the darker enterprise the building was built to hide.

Told through the shifting perspectives of the building's residents, Lucy Foley's thriller is a claustrophobic, twist-driven mystery set behind one very exclusive Parisian address.