The Room on Rue Amélie by Kristin Harmel

Publisher: Gallery Books
Publication date:  March 27th 2018
Pages: 400

Ruby Henderson Benoit arrives in Paris in 1939 with her French husband Marcel, they have met while Ruby was living in New York. They start their Parisian live in their apartment on the Rue Amélie, where they have their nice Jewish family, the Dasher's as their neighbors. But then World War II breaks out. And while this is starting, her marriage to Marcel grows cold, and she can't put her finger on it why. He is hiding something for her, but what?
The second narrator is Ruby's neighbor girl Charlotte, who have become good friends as Ruby is teaching Charlotte English. But then one night Charlotte is in the hallway, seeing that Marcel is trying to hide someone in their apartment, but why?
When Rudy gets the sad news from a strange man knocking at her door one night that Marcel has died, she finds out why he was so secretive; Marcel was part of a resistance cell that tried to hide British RAF pilots in their apartment cupboard. Soon enough, a wounded pilot is knocking at her door asking for her help to hide him just as Marcel did, as the pilots apparently don't know about Marcel's dead. But then Charlotte's parents are taken away by the Nazi's, altough Ruby tried to warn the, Now Ruby takes care of Charlotte as her own daughter, and soon she finds a new love interest in one of the pilots that she is hiding, but as the war goes on, it get's more and more hot under their feet as their work start to become more dangerous, will she be undiscovered hiding allied pilots untill the end of the war?

This is the third book by Kristin Harmel that I am reading and for the third time I am completely blown away by it!!!
Everything in her books, every little piece of the puzzle of the story fits perfectly together and this book is no exception.
The storyline was absolutely amazing. You can just image how hard it must have been for Ruby to survive on her own during the war, not knowing if her husband come back, and while trying to survive on her own without any hestitance she takes over the resistance work of her husband, which she didn''t knew he was doing at all. Altough the book doesn't have the most happy ending, it fitted well in the storyline and made it just very realistic.
So without further ado and to reveal to many spoilers and parts of the plot, this is one of the best books by Kristin Harmel, perfect for fans of All the Flowers in Paris by Sarah Jio, and truly a book to put on the top of your reading list!!!