Books like A Simple Favour 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.

A 2012 crime thriller that explores a marriage in turmoil as one wife disappears, leaving her husband to confront suspicion and secrets.

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.

Cameron McFarlane, a handsome, wealthy bestselling author, hires Dani to cater his Christmas dinner to win her heart and his family’s approval.

A husband’s new engagement unexpectedly draws a determined ex‑wife into a web of lies, secrets, and psychological tension that threatens the lives of all involved.

A snowbound Catskills inn turns deadly as guests are washed out of contact during a blizzard, and one by one they begin to die in what seems like a sinister murder mystery.

A single‑mother mommy blogger’s world is shattered when her best friend disappears, sparking a suspenseful, psychological cat‑and‑mouse chase that tests loyalty, truth, and deception.

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?

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.

In Fairview, Connecticut, a young woman’s memory is erased after a violent assault, forcing her family to confront hidden secrets and a relentless search for justice in a seemingly perfect town.

A mystery set in 1969 Connecticut, Captain Carmine Delmonico investigates a series of murders connected to a lethal toxin theft and a scientist accused of framing the killer.

A contemporary fiction romance that weaves suspense around a missing person mystery set in Connecticut, touching on themes of motherhood, love, and resilience.

An imaginative child navigates family dynamics and moves to a new town.