


Since the revelations lie within deep spoiler territory I will only be giving a superficial look at the plot and the people driving it within this review. The early chapters are spent sorting through their various personalities and it isn’t till we reach the halfway point that we discover the truth about many of them, and our own understanding of what is actually happening begins to form.

Rather than being action or event-driven like most mysteries, it is a character-driven story told by alternating narrators who have quite different perspectives. This is a difficult book to describe because not a lot happens. Like The Guest List, the events in this book take place over the course of just a few days and the plot resembles a locked room mystery in that everything vital takes place at one location. Lucy Foley’s The Guest Listwas one of my favorite mysteries of 2020 so naturally, when The Paris Apartment came up for review, I was eager to read it.
