I received an ARC of this book thanks to NetGalley and publisher HarperCollins UK in exchange for an honest review.
I wish I liked this book more.
The Paris Apartment is the story of a woman who shows up to stay with her brother in Paris, only to find he is missing. Having nowhere else to go, she decides to stay in his apartment in the hopes he'll show up. The longer she stays though, the more ominous the situation seems. The other residents of the apartment building all seem to be hiding something, but is it related to her brother?
This book has a reasonable set up and plot but it suffers almost immediately from too many POV characters. I found it difficult to keep track of who was who, and in particular it was hard to remember how different characters were related. This kind of book relies heavily on being able to remember characters (it features a lot of people discussing other people, which doesn't work so well if you don't remember the names) but I found the characters either weren't established strongly or their initial relations to each other weren't emphasised enough for me to be able to fully appreciate the story.
That aside, this is quite a mediocre mystery. It never felt like the stakes were particularly high or meaningful. I wasn't really surprised by anything that happened, nor did I care strongly about any of the other characters. I think the other books by this author are much better
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