Books like A Simple Favor: A Novel by Darcey Bell

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown after a brief stay in a psychiatric hospital to cover the murders of two preteen girls, and must confront the trauma of her own past to uncover the truth.

A Dublin detective returns to his hometown’s Faithful Place after a decades‑old missing‑person case pulls his former lover’s suitcase into his life, and he must confront family, crime, and loyalty to uncover the truth.

Lindsay Boxer and her new partner race heart‑pounding trials in San Francisco as a madman escapes custody and a child‑kidnapping spree shocks the city, all while the Women’s Murder Club fights to protect each other and keep the kidnappers in check.

An upper‑class rake steers clear of marriage until a chance encounter with the enigmatic Thomasina de Ballesteros turns his world upside down.

After a seemingly trivial decision, a privileged young woman discovers her world is built on lies—forcing her to confront family secrets, hidden enemies, and a dangerous lover in this fast‑paced thriller.

Flora Dane survived a years‑long kidnapping and now struggles to reintegrate while Boston detective D.D. Warren investigates a brutal crime that may link her past and a new abduction.

Single mother Sara McAdams returns to renovate her childhood Victorian mansion on Oregon’s Columbia River, only to confront haunting rumors and a town’s spate of teenage girl disappearances that threaten her family’s safety.

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Darcey and Nieve were the closest and best of friends, through school, as neighbours, travelling round Europe: this was a friendship for life. Until Nieve, returning from Europe a little later than her friend, stole the heart of Aidan, the boy Darcey had fallen in love with in her absence. Aidan was going to propose the very night Nieve caught his eye, and Darcey knew it. For the next ten years she's haunted by the memory of her humiliation. No business success - and there are many - no comfort her warm if eccentric family can offer, not even marriage to Neil, can console her. And then the invitation comes: to the wedding of Aidan and Nieve, neither of whom she's seen since they left Ireland for life in the USA. They're coming home to have the wedding of a lifetime at Ireland's most expensive hotel. Will Darcey be there? Will there be fireworks? And can the past be put to rest at last?

A man obsessed with finding his sister’s killer is pulled into the woods behind his mother’s house, where only her sneaker remains as a clue, transforming a search into a psychological battle against his own unraveling mind.

After a best‑friend’s child disappears, a widowed mommy‑blogger’s search for answers turns into a dangerous investigation when the friend’s husband returns to a scene of murder and deception.

Young Sophie Everton, whose life has had more than its share of ups-and-downs, is determined to restore her family's fortune by becoming a spy for the Prince Regent, but finds the dark and dangerous Duke of Rockeforte in her way.

Cork O'Connor races against a looming winter storm to find a missing man in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, uncovering a deadly mystery that threatens not only his life but the lives of hundreds.

A mother on a fresh start along the coast becomes embroiled in a deadly game of deception and secrets when her daughter’s new friend vanishes, forcing her to uncover hidden truths to protect herself and her child.