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

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Het ging een hele andere richting op dan dat ik had gehoopt en ook vond ik sommige keuzes een beetje vergezocht en raar. In true Nicci French style, each chapter adds another wrinkle to the plot, ensuring that the reader is kept guessing at every turn. That said, THE FAVOUR unfortunately turned out to be one of my least favourite books by the author team, partly because believing the main character’s actions and motivations stretched my ability to suspend disbelief way past its limits. Part of this favor has her lying to her fiancé so she can travel for hours to a cottage to await Liam's arrival and this is when and where he'll explain more.

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In the early eighties she taught English Literature in Sheffield, London and Los Angeles, but moved into publishing in 1985 with the launch of Women's Review, a magazine for women on art, literature and female issues. There are several very unlikable side characters in this book, but for some reason Jude seems to be drawn to these horrible people. And just when everything seems to have been revealed, there’s a chilling, jaw-dropping twist in the final pages. When Liam is murdered, Jude finds herself in a tangled web that seems to pull more tightly around her at every turn. I found Jude to be a very frustrating character, and I wanted to shake her numerous times and shout at her to stop going found to 'that house'.Then, out of the blue, after an absence of eleven years, her first serious boyfriend, Liam Birch turns up to meet her with a strange request. Since Nicci French’s engrossing Frieda Klein series, I’ve found their standalone novels a little more unpredictable quality-wise. Jude hasn’t seen Liam in years, but when he shows up at her work asking for a favor, she finds she can’t refuse. When Jude’s motivation is revealed, it makes sense that she might have felt compelled to do the initial favor, but it was unbelievable to me that she would keep going down a path where she is likely to end up behind bars or even dead. Junior doctor Jude is on the cusp of marriage; after a night shift she finds that Liam, her ‘bad boy’ first boyfriend, whom she hasn’t seen since she left school, is waiting for her to ask a favour – and a very strange favour it is too.

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She has a successful career as a doctor, engaged, soon to be married when out of the blue an old love of her's, Liam gets in contact with her and asks a favour. Jude hasn't seen Liam in years, not since he took the fall for a drunk driving incident that could've ended her career prospects.In 1995 Nicci and Sean began work on their first joint novel and adopted the pseudonym of Nicci French. I requested a digital advanced readers copy from NetGalley and William Morrow and providing my opinion voluntarily and unbiased. Accused murderer Tabitha Hardy, the protagonist of this ambitious standalone from the pseudonymous French (the Frieda Klein series), starts with two strikes against her. The actual crime elements feel somewhat perfunctory but the absurdist underpinnings make this more interesting than the usual psychological thriller.

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e. an arty / spiritual person believing in karma or a person undergoing a deep personal crisis such as substance addiction / bereavement etc). Life moved on for both: Jude qualified as a doctor and is about to marry Nat; Liam tells her he has a young son, Alfie. He too studied English Literature at Oxford University at the same time as Nicci, also graduating with a first class degree, but their paths didn't cross until 1990. My Thoughts: This book is labeled as a thriller, but I feel like it is more like fiction with an element of mystery, this is not a bad thing, as I throughly enjoyed this book. During that time he also worked at the Sunday Times as deputy literary editor and television critic, and was the film critic for Marie Claire and deputy editor of New Society.Then she enters Liam's adult world, his weird ass house that reminds me of a circus, with unsavoury, sexually aggressive, lost people, and develops her first singular opinion. I always seem to have an unpopular opinion, but this time it's because I seemed to enjoy the book more than the other reviewers.

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However, when she becomes the prime suspect in Liam’s murder, she makes one foolish decsion after the other which make her look even more guilty and put her life in danger.

She spoke and acted like no other detective ever and I'm a little surprised she carries a badge at all. Many thanks to Scene of the Crime and William Morrow via NetGalley for providing me an advance copy of this book. But here is Jude, bumbling her way from one disaster into the next and making one terrible decision after another. That these odious, and yet quickly forgettable, characters seem to have a hold on Jude is very hard to believe.