Characters in The Paris Apartment

Jess Hadley

A young Englishwoman fleeing trouble who arrives in Paris to find her half-brother missing and starts digging.

Jacques Meunier

The patriarch of the family that owns the building, and the proprietor of the private club on its ground floor.

Ben Daniels

Jess's half-brother, a freelance journalist whose disappearance opens the novel.

Sophie Meunier

The imperious resident of the building's grandest apartment.

Mimi (The Paris Apartment)

Nick Miller (The Paris Apartment)

Antoine (The Paris Apartment)

Jacques's son by his first marriage, a volatile heavy drinker living on the first floor.

Camille (The Paris Apartment)

Mimi's flatmate on the fourth floor, whose casual manner conceals what she knows about the building.

The Concierge (The Paris Apartment)

The building's watchful caretaker, who lives in the ground-floor lodge and is never named in the novel. One of the six rotating narrators.