A Simple Favor, Darcey Bell
A Simple Favor, Darcey Bell
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A Simple Favor
A Novel

Bestseller

Author: Darcey Bell

Narrator: Andi Arndt, Xe Sands, Matthew Waterson

Unabridged: 8 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 03/21/2017


Synopsis

The Inspiration for the film starring Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, and Henry Golding. Don't miss the sequel, Another Simple Favor, streaming soon on Prime Video!""Riveting and brilliantly structured, A Simple Favor is an edge-of-your seat domestic thriller.""—Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling authorA single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes in this chilling debut thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train.She’s your best friend. She knows all your secrets. That’s why she’s so dangerous.It starts with a simple favor—an ordinary kindness mothers do for one another. When her best friend, Emily, asks Stephanie to pick up her son Nicky after school, she happily says yes. Nicky and her son, Miles, are classmates and best friends, and the five-year-olds love being together—just like she and Emily. A widow and stay-at-home mommy blogger living in woodsy suburban Connecticut, Stephanie was lonely until she met Emily, a sophisticated PR executive whose job in Manhattan demands so much of her time.But Emily doesn’t come back. She doesn’t answer calls or return texts. Stephanie knows something is terribly wrong—Emily would never leave Nicky, no matter what the police say. Terrified, she reaches out to her blog readers for help. She also reaches out to Emily’s husband, the handsome, reticent Sean, offering emotional support. It’s the least she can do for her best friend. Then, she and Sean receive shocking news. Emily is dead. The nightmare of her disappearance is over.Or is it? Because soon, Stephanie will begin to see that nothing—not friendship, love, or even an ordinary favor—is as simple as it seems.Bell masterfully ratchets up the tension in a taut, unsettling, and completely absorbing story that holds you in its grip until the final page.

About Darcey Bell

Darcey Bell was born in 1981 and raised on a dairy farm in western Iowa. She is a preschool teacher in Chicago. A Simple Favor is her first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Miranda

You’d be amazed by what people will do. Things they’d never admit to anyone—not even to themselves.Stephanie, a recently widowed mother, spends her life trying to be theabsolutely perfect - mommy blog perfect - mother. She slowly ticking the boxes for perfection and even (finally) foun......more

Goodreads review by Michele

Okay....unreliable narrators (three of them, variously 1st POV throughout the novel), faked deaths, crappy marriages, incest, hidden siblings, etc should have made this book better than it actually was. In a nutshell, the story is about two best friends and one (or both?) of them is ala Gone Girl tr......more

Goodreads review by Nilufer

That’s a real first in my life but I’m literally screaming : please skip this book without thinking any further and watch Paul Feig’s snarky, sassy, smart, dark comedy adaptation! Just dive into the movie and forget this book!!!!!! Both Kendrick and Lively were so amazing!......more

I rlly need to stop drinking that trash book juice and starting reading proper literature......more

Goodreads review by Laura

After the movie ended, I asked Emily, “Do you think real people would ever do things like that?” Emily laughed. “Sweet Stephanie. You’d be amazed by what people will do. Things they’d never admit to anyone - not even to themselves.” It all begins with a simple favor. You are asked to pick up your......more