The Favour: The gripping new thriller from an author 'at the top of British psychological suspense writing' (Observer)

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Having said that, I know this will not be a book for everyone, I may be in the minority on this one, but I did love the storyline.

Future readers, if you are okay with preposterous and illogical plots then you'll have a better time than I did. Who is she, the book asks, subliminally, when all these factors that tether her to her social self are untied and can she re-forge an identity for herself? In 1987 Nicci had a son, Edgar, followed by a daughter, Anna, in 1988, but a year later her marriage to Colin Hughes broke down. When Liam unexpectedly turns up in Jude's life after ten years of no contact, asking her for a favour, she just can't say no.I know as the novel progresses we do learn the reason as to why she helps him but even with this information I still think she should have walked away. Maar ik bleef lezen en hopen op de onderhuidse spanning van de eerdere boeken van dit schrijversduo. This book is like that, great concepts, great world building, lots of nice mystery, but all a bit underwhelming by the end. Jude may be a geriatric doctor, so we know she must be rather clever, but she knows absolutely nothing of the world. Excels at depicting an ordinary life swept away by horror' Observer 'Fantastic - a breathless drumbeat of dread and suspense' Lee Child'Heart-thumping, head-scratching, nail-biting stuff: The Favour is classic Nicci French.

Her fiancé is even less convinced than DI Fox, and suddenly, that one decision turns her life upside down. Mysterious, tense, and forbidding, The Favour is an addictive thriller from veteran husband and wife writing team Nicci French. I think the only way I could have believed Jude’s actions would have been either a) if there was an implicit threat to Jude if she didn’t agree to the “favour”; or b) if Jude was a totally different personality type (i.The main character is a doctor, but she makes one stupid decision after another, making it very difficult to like or understand her. I guessed the just-before-halfway-twist pretty well straight away, and also correctly identified the killer shortly over the halfway line. The writing is sharp and suspenseful, the authors holding me in the palm of their hands as they wove their web of words around me.