A Simple Favour: An edge-of-your-seat thriller with a chilling twist
Mar 2017 · Pan Macmillan
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A Simple Favour is a twisting free-fall ride filled with betrayal, reversal, secrets and revelations, love and loyalty. Now a major feature film starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively.
'Packed with betrayal, secrets and plenty of twists and turns' - Telegraph
What happened to Emily?
It starts with a simple favour – an ordinary kindness mothers do for one another.
As a widow and stay-at-home blogger mum living in suburban Connecticut, Stephanie was lonely until she met Emily – a glamorous and successful PR executive. Their children are classmates and best friends – and so are they.
So, when Emily asks Stephanie to pick up her son from school, she happily says yes.
But Emily doesn't come back.
No matter what the police say, Stephanie knows that Emily would never leave her son. Terrified, she reaches out to her fellow mummy bloggers. And she also reaches out to Emily's husband – just to offer her support.
But there are secrets that Stephanie hasn't shared. Secrets buried deep in the murky past . . .
For fans of Gone Girl and Big Little Lies, Darcey Bell ratchets up the tension in a taut, unsettling, and completely absorbing thriller that holds you in its grip until the final page.
'Packed with betrayal, secrets and plenty of twists and turns' - Telegraph
What happened to Emily?
It starts with a simple favour – an ordinary kindness mothers do for one another.
As a widow and stay-at-home blogger mum living in suburban Connecticut, Stephanie was lonely until she met Emily – a glamorous and successful PR executive. Their children are classmates and best friends – and so are they.
So, when Emily asks Stephanie to pick up her son from school, she happily says yes.
But Emily doesn't come back.
No matter what the police say, Stephanie knows that Emily would never leave her son. Terrified, she reaches out to her fellow mummy bloggers. And she also reaches out to Emily's husband – just to offer her support.
But there are secrets that Stephanie hasn't shared. Secrets buried deep in the murky past . . .
For fans of Gone Girl and Big Little Lies, Darcey Bell ratchets up the tension in a taut, unsettling, and completely absorbing thriller that holds you in its grip until the final page.
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3.8
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Debbie
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September 19, 2018
The book was very fast paced and enjoyable in that sense. However, the characters, particularly Emily, were inconsistent. Seans perspective was very feminine. Spoiler below. Also, it seems very unlikely that a wall street broker and a head of PR would go through all that trouble for 2 million, regardless of the thrill.
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October 12, 2018
I found myself willing for the book to just end as the story drags out for too long. The characters are quite boring as is the storyline after a few chapters. Nothing is very believable or exciting.
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Katherine Martin
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November 19, 2018
It's an intriguing read and i loved how you never knew what Emily's twisted mind would think of next but the blogging Stephanie was too predictable and a little unbelievable. I would have liked Sean to be involved at the end. Maybe there's a book 2???
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About the author
Darcey Bell was raised on a dairy farm in western Iowa and is a preschool teacher in Chicago. She was born in 1981. Her debut novel is A Simple Favour, a tense psychological thriller set in Connecticut.
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