A Simple Favor -- Darcey Bell

<p><strong>"Riveting and brilliantly structured, <em>A Simple Favor</em> 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."--Kimberly McCreight, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author</strong></p><p><em>She's your best friend. She knows all your secrets. That's why she's so dangerous.</em></p><p>A single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes in this chilling debut thriller in the vein of <em>Gone Girl </em>and <em>The Girl on the Train.</em></p><p>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.</p><p>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