She tells Nick, her brother, what she found.Īs a result, Nick calls his father home to warn him about what Ben is doing. Jacques gave her to Sophie after a girl who worked at the club became pregnant and then died in childbirth. Ben wrote that Mimi was not Sophie and Jacques’s biological daughter. In it, he detailed from where her family’s money came, a fact of which Mimi was unaware. While she was waiting for Ben to return home, she read Ben's in-progress article. She was intending to have sex with him because she believed he was in love with her. Jacques’s paperwork shows that he is selling wine, but the customers are paying for sex.įoley pieces together a story about Mimi sneaking into Ben’s apartment. These girls are lured to the club with the promise that they will have careers as dancers.

Jess connects with a newspaper editor with whom Ben worked and discovers that Jacques runs an exclusive sex club where the main product is underage girls from other countries. It is only when Jess sees a picture when snooping in the office of Jacques Meunier, a wine broker and Sophie’s husband, that she realizes the people who live in the building are members of a family. They raise Jess’s suspicions by either lying about their relationship with Ben or refusing to answer Jess’s questions. These characters piece together their story as they narrate both present and past events.Īfter Jess arrives at her brother’s apartment to find he is not there like he promised he would be, she begins asking other residents if they have seen him. The cast of characters includes Jess, who is trying to determine what happened to her brother the concierge, who watches the family and knows everything Sophie, who is trying to hide from her past and protect her daughter Nick, who desperately wants to be a good guy who is loved by his father and Mimi, a troubled young woman who falls in love with Ben. She thinks that one of them is responsible.įoley writes her novel from the first-person point of view. As Jess questions the other people who live in Ben’s apartment building, she becomes more convinced that something bad has happened to Ben. Jess Hadley arrives at her brother’s new apartment in Paris to find Ben is not there to meet her as he promised. In the murder mystery The Paris Apartment, author Lucy Foley incorporates a missing journalist, blackmail notes, a murder, family secrets, and a suspicious cast of characters to leave her readers guessing till the end who did what.

The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Foley, Lucy.

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