It’s brilliant and creepy, confusing (by design) at first and then slowly, as the details unwind, they assemble into a clear, grim picture of what happened, and how all the characters contributed to the situation.Īlong the way, we meet a materially rich, morally poor family who are facing their downfall thanks to the charming journalist who lands in their midst.
In THE PARIS APARTMENT, Foley puts together a fascinating family drama involving three separate families, class and wealth issues, secrets buried and how, when those secrets unfold, they lead to a spate of violence and other consequences. I’ve read most of Lucy’s books, and while I miss her charming historical-set and dual timeline storytelling, I have to admit that she’s really hit her stride with these multi-perspective thrillers that tell very complex and somewhat disjointed stories that ultimately pull everything together and draw these complicated threads into a brilliant tapestry of misunderstandings and lies churning into truth and comprehension, with a myriad of competing interests and impulses that represent a variety of vices and misdeeds.
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