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This is my third Lucy foley book (The Hunting Party and The Guest List are the others) and I'm seeing a pattern (I rated those others 2.5* rounded up, Paris Apartment gets the same.) All have almost entirely unlikable characters. In this outing Jess is the protagonist, and while she's not totally unlikable, she certainly is irritating. As we are introduced to the Parisian building, where her missing brother rents an apartment, I thought "Great, Paris will be the one likable character in the story." First, you're going to wonder how her less-than-successful brother managed to rent an apartment in a chic, if a bit run down, palatial building. That's somewhat explained later on, but it does make you wonder. When Jess leaves the apartment in search of her missing brother, she might as well be in Sheboygan. (No offense to Sheboygan, I've never been there and don't really know where it is, but if the book had been entitled "The Sheboygan Apartment" I doubt I'd have picked it up! Thus my disappointment in Paris not playing a leading role. I'll avoid spoilers so you'll know there is some connection between the other tenants, it just takes forever to reveal it. I do like Ms Foley's writing, but that's really the only saving grace (thus the .5* round up.) As Rick said to Ilsa in Casablanca "We'll always have Paris". Sadly, you don't really get Paris in "The Paris Apartment"