{"product_id":"a-simple-favor-a-novel-isbn-9780062497772","title":"A Simple Favor: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Inspiration for the film starring Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, and Henry Golding. Don't miss the sequel, \u003cem\u003eAnother Simple Favor\u003c\/em\u003e, streaming soon on Prime Video!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Riveting and brilliantly structured, \u003cem\u003eA Simple Favor\u003c\/em\u003e is an edge-of-your seat domestic thriller.\"—Kimberly McCreight, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes in this chilling debut thriller in the vein of \u003cem\u003eGone Girl \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Girl on the Train.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShe’s your best friend. She knows all your secrets. That’s why she’s so dangerous.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBell masterfully ratchets up the tension in a taut, unsettling, and completely absorbing story that holds you in its grip until the final page.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Simple Favor\u003c\/em\u003e is a feverish and expertly plotted tale of psychological suspense—a twisting free fall filled with betrayals and reversals, secrets and revelations, love and loyalty, murder and revenge. Darcey Bell exposes the dark underbelly of female friendship in this taut, unsettling, and completely absorbing story that holds you in its grip until the final page. \u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt starts with a simple favor—an ordinary kindness mothers do for one another. When glamorous Emily asks Stephanie to pick up her son after school, Stephanie happily says yes. Emily has a life that would make any woman jealous. She is the perfect mother with a dazzling career working for a famous fashion designer in Manhattan. Stephanie, a widow with a son in kindergarten, lonely in their Connecticut suburb, turns to her daily blog for connection and validation. Stephanie imagines Emily to be her new confidante and is shocked when Emily suddenly disappears without a trace, leaving her son and husband with no warning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephanie knows something is terribly wrong. Unable to keep away from the grieving family, she soon finds herself entangled with Sean, Emily’s handsome, reticent British husband. But she can’t ignore the nagging feeling that he’s not being honest with her about Emily’s disappearance. Is Stephanie imagining things? How well did she really know her “best” friend? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephanie begins to see that nothing—not friendship, love, or even an ordinary favor—is as simple as it seems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“[A] stylish and unsettling thriller…The plot stretches into increasingly dark territory, the narrative mixing familiar gimmicks in the thriller repertoire and producing an overall story that’s just mysterious and weird enough to supply maximum satisfaction.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“No one and nothing is what it seems in this page-turner.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bell possesses a wicked imagination and a firm grasp on plotting; she fills \u003cem\u003eA Simple Favor\u003c\/em\u003e with multiple twists, all the while providing subtle clues for the astute reader. Like \u003cem\u003eGone Girl,\u003c\/em\u003e Bell’s novel offers a crackling story line as well as several profoundly repellent characters whose pasts lead to a scalding but fully earned conclusion.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichmond Times-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bell’s edgy first novel is chock-full of dirty little secrets, lies, and manipulations. \u003cem\u003eGone Girl\u003c\/em\u003e devotees should reserve an advance copy and carve out uninterrupted time for this juicy read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What a wonderfully absorbing, unremittingly intense, endlessly surprising novel Darcey Bell has written. Her characters—in the worst way—never know what’s going to happen next and nor—in the best way—does her reader.\u003cem\u003e A Simple Favor\u003c\/em\u003e yields very complicated pleasures.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMargot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Debut-novelist Bell ramps up suspense with authority in this domestic thriller, in which actions seem as inevitable as they are chilling. The audience that made\u003cem\u003e Gone Girl\u003c\/em\u003e a publishing sensation is likely to take to this one, too.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An intense, captivating, and astonishing thriller ending in an unforeseen and surprise ending; the premise: Be careful who you trust.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Riveting and brilliantly structured, \u003cem\u003eA Simple Favor\u003c\/em\u003e is an edge-of-your seat domestic thriller about a missing wife and mother that relies on a rotating cast of unreliable narrators to ingeniously examine the cost of competitive mom-friends, the toll of ordinary marital discontent and the fallacy of the picture-perfect, suburban family.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sly, satirical, subversive: a deliciously poisoned cupcake of a story.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eL. 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