🌟 Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 Genre: Mystery/Thriller

📚 Read if you like locked door or cozy mysteries such as The Hunting Party, The Guilt Trip, or most Agatha Christie novels; multiple POVs; dual timelines

⚠️TW: domestic abuse; sexual assault 

When Jess arrives at her brother Ben’s new apartment in Paris, ready to escape from her old life in London, he is nowhere to be found. What she unearths within the first few hours of being there, tells her something terrible has happened to her brother. But what…and why…

I can see where the mixed reviews are coming from with this one; however, I really enjoy it. There is just something so unique about Lucy Foley’s writing that I cannot quite put my finger on – some sort of twisty madness mixed with things that go bump in the night, and I just love it every time. 

While this one had a whole different vibe from her other thrillers, it shares some of the same stylistic techniques, from the short chapters told by different characters, to the cliff hanger chapter endings that make you want to keep reading.

In addition, her description of this lux, overwhelming, and shadowy apartment complex is so detailed, I can see every square inch in my mind’s eye. This helped me stay engaged as the action unfolded. 

I will agree that there was a chunk towards the middle that felt like it dragged a bit. However, overall, I felt fully submersed in that secluded and creepy Paris apartment, right along with Jess, trying to figure out whodunit and what had been done.