An intense, captivating, and astonishing thriller ending in an unforeseen and surprise ending; the premise: Be careful who you trust.” — New York Journal of Books
“Bell’s edgy first novel is chock-full of dirty little secrets, lies, and manipulations. Gone Girl devotees should reserve an advance copy and carve out uninterrupted time for this juicy read.” — Library Journal
“[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.” — Toronto Star
“Riveting and brilliantly structured, A Simple Favor 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, New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia
“Sly, satirical, subversive: a deliciously poisoned cupcake of a story.” — L. S. Hilton, author of Maestra
“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 Gone Girl a publishing sensation is likely to take to this one, too.” — Booklist (starred review)
“Bell possesses a wicked imagination and a firm grasp on plotting; she fills A Simple Favor with multiple twists, all the while providing subtle clues for the astute reader. Like Gone Girl, 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.” — Richmond Times-Dispatch
“No one and nothing is what it seems in this page-turner.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer
“This is a psychological thriller that is as hip and relevant as it is gripping. Darcey Bell somehow manages to satirize, hilariously, the ghastly self-righteousness of the online ‘Mommy Bloggers’ while at the same time pulling off a suburban mystery that ends with a twist that is as horridly satisfying as it is completely unexpected. I couldn’t stop reading about these two truly terrifying moms!” — Plum Sykes, author of Bergdorf Blondes
“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. A Simple Favor yields very complicated pleasures.” — Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy
