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Started the final book of the summer yesterday 🥺

(I bought the print from KTCanvases, & I‘m still trying to find the best place to hang it, but how pretty 😍 )

Foley has a formula for the characters in her mysteries for sure, dark secrets, old friends, “the help” & scenic locations & a holiday. Twists on twists. I loved it.

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It was my least favourite Lucy Foley's book. Something was off. But I really liked the twist near the ending and that changed my overall opinion about the book. I like the way she writes mystery novels with different points of view and unreliable narrators. This was not ideal but still I will pick the next one of hers

Hovering between a pick and a So-so - It was a decent plot that kept me reading, and there was a big twist toward the end that made me actually gasp, so points for that, but the writing was often cringy. Also, did anyone else notice that at least 11 times, by my count, the author describes the scent of someone's sweat, with really weird adjectives like vinegary and peppery 🤮 Truly bizarre fixation. 🤔🙀🙄

Loved it

I found this post on fbook so I commented on it and Tried all week how fab it defo got me reading again I have Q9.83 now my app is hyper jar it fun money management bank account which helped me save for Xmas and books anything.

This one has been my least favorite of Foley‘s books to date. Something was just missing and the story‘s scope didn‘t seem to fit. I was just left feeling apathetic for the majority of it, though it picked up in the second half.

Current read. But making list TBR 2023 why not

I listened to this as an audiobook and it did the melodrama no favours. Some twists and turns, but found this as exciting as driving through a suburban strip-mall on a Sunday. Why didn‘t I bail? It‘s a long drive home from work and I‘m a completist. More‘s the pity.

I guess I‘m starting this tomorrow, not tonight. 🐈‍⬛

Channeling the back to school vibe but without the textbooks

Quick read with short chapters and a plot that keeps you turning pages.

This is my favorite of Lucy Foley‘s books I‘ve read. After some trouble at her job in England, Jess goes to stay for a while with her brother in Paris. He says he will wait up for her, but when she arrives, he isn‘t at his apartment. The others living in the building are all suspicious characters. She understands limited French and knows no one there, so she has to decide who to trust as she tries to find out what happened.

Jess figured she‘d get a new start, visit her brother in Paris.When Jess arrives , she can‘t believe Ben isn‘t waiting for her & is stunned the beauty of the Paris apartment.Her concerns growing, she realizes everyone she encounters seems to have something to hide .A fast paced & interesting read!

Oooh, this was a good one... If I could still stay up past my bedtime reading, this is one that I'd have read into the wee hours of the night, but alas, I fall asleep at 10:30 no matter what the situation. Anyway. I love a locked room mystery and this one gave me such strong vibes of a particular Agatha Christie that I really like but would absolutely spoil everything if I said which one.

So many ugly secrets! So many liars. Twisty plot, dysfunctional characters, slowly building tension, short and effective chapters - very entertaining!

I really enjoyed this thriller, even more so than “The Guest List.” I listened to the audiobook, which, with the characters and accents, made for a really entertaining and more-suspenseful option. (Mimi‘s voice grates though.) If you need a good whodunnit, this doesn‘t disappoint!

I didn‘t enjoy this book but I am finding it therapeutic to knit socks to match some book covers…

A fun page turner that will have you trying to solve the various mysteries that lie within. Jess, a young Brit, escapes London to join her estranged brother in Paris. Only when she arrives at his apartment, he seems to have vanished into thin air. To say anymore would ruin this twisty and suspenseful tale!
Currently in development at a little company I know called Sony Pictures.

I‘m a BFF! I could be one of the few on Litsy that hasn‘t read a Simone St.James ! I like the bookish tote even tho I have many bookish totes.#swag #BOTM

A financially destitute young woman moves into her brother's French loft only to find him missing and the rest of the tenants acting strange. Could they be responsible for his disappearance as she uncovers secrets and a crime occurring in the outskirts of Paris? Another whodunnit with a cast of suspects similar to her previous mystery The Guest List.