A Simple Favor: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

Soon to be always a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively and Henry Golding, and directed simply by Paul Feig

She’s your very best friend. She knows all your secrets. That’s why she’s so harmful.

A single mother’s life is turned ugly when her closest friend vanishes within this chilling debut thriller in the vein of Eliminated Girl and The Girl on the Train.

It starts with a straightforward favor-an common kindness mothers do for one another. When her closest friend, Emily, asks Stephanie to about A Simple Favor: A Novel pick up her kid Nicky after school, she happily says yes. Nicky and her child, Kilometers, are classmates and close friends, and the five-year-olds like getting together-just like she and Emily. A widow and stay-at-home mommy blogger surviving in woodsy suburban Connecticut, Stephanie was depressed until she met Emily, a sophisticated PR professional whose work in Manhattan demands so much of her time.

But Emily doesn’t keep coming back. She doesn’t solution calls or come back texts. Stephanie understands something is definitely terribly wrong-Emily could not leave Nicky, no real matter what the police state. Terrified, she gets to out to her blog readers for help. She also reaches out to Emily’s husband, the good-looking, reticent Sean, supplying emotional support. It’s the least she can perform for her closest friend. Then, she and Sean receive surprising news. Emily is certainly dead. The problem of her disappearance is over.

Or is it? Because quickly, Stephanie will begin to discover that nothing-not a friendly relationship, love, as well as a typical favor-is as simple as it seems.

A Simple Favour is a remarkable story of psychological suspense-a clever and twisting free-fall of a ride filled up with betrayals and reversals, twists and turns, secrets and revelations, love and loyalty, murder and revenge. Darcey Bell masterfully ratchets up the tension in a taut, unsettling, and completely absorbing tale that retains you in its grip until the last page.