Agent: Alexandra Machinist, ICM Partners.“It’s a beautiful building, but there’s something rotten at its heart. Amid plenty of red herrings and distinctive characters, each shifty in their own way, the relentlessly bleak plot builds to an uplifting twist ending that feels neither pat nor overly rosy. After an editor Ben worked for takes Jess's worries about his disappearance seriously, the details of those secrets start to emerge, along with a credible portrait of a deeply damaged family. In her search for Ben, Jess learns the building's tenants are members of a single family with secrets to hide.

When Jess asks the other tenants about her brother, all of them including imperious penthouse dweller Sophie Meunier, a blackmail victim timid 19-year-old Mimi, who's infatuated with Ben and aggressive drunk Antoine, who suspects Ben has seduced his wife deflect her questions. But Ben is not there and doesn't show up the next morning. Jess Hadley, the gutsy heroine of this well-paced mystery from bestseller Foley (The Guest List), arrives at the swanky Paris apartment building of her aspiring journalist half brother, Ben Daniels, after fleeing her latest unpleasant job in England. And everyone knows something they’re not telling. The socialite – The nice guy – The alcoholic – The girl on the verge – The conciergeĮveryone's a neighbor.

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. Ben’s neighbors are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig into her brother’s situation, and the more questions she has. Only when she shows up – to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? – he’s not there. 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. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. ' clever, cliff-hanger-filled thriller.' - Peopleįrom 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… “Told in rotating points of view, this Tilt-A-Whirl of a novel brims with jangly tension – an undeniably engrossing guessing game.” - Vogue

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley