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The Favor

A Novel

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The Favor

By: Nicci French
Narrated by: Imogen Church
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In this twisty new stand-alone novel from internationally bestselling author Nicci French, a young woman agrees to do a favor for her first love—but when things go horribly wrong, one small task turns into a murder investigation that completely upends her life, ensnaring her in a deadly web of secrets and lies.

It’s a simple enough favor.

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. All Jude has to do is pick Liam up at a country train station—without telling anyone. So what if she has to lie to her fiancé? Jude is still committed to him and their imminent wedding, even if she and Liam were in love once.

She owes him.

After the car crash that changed everything years ago, bright, ambitious Jude went to medical school, back on the path she had planned before meeting moody, artistic Liam. Meanwhile, he never fully recovered from the dark stain the accident left on his record.

Now he’s gone.

When the police show up at the station instead of Liam, Jude realizes that she knows nothing about the man he’s become. Now she’s tangled up in his life, the last person to have seen him, and maybe the only one who can uncover the truth about what went wrong—even if she destroys her own life in the process.

©2022 Nicci French (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers
Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense
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I usually love Nikkis books but this main character Jude.. I wanted to jump thru the phone and shake her...soo dumb...if she said "I don't understand " one more time I was literally going to scream. such a dud..

Really?

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I love the Nicci French series’s but I found the narrator made all the characters sound like Valley girls. The up octave at the end of characters speech is very distracting. If I didn’t enjoy the story so much I wouldn’t finish this offering

Poor narrator

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In all 27,000 pages (234 chapters), Jude does not make one good decision. If you meet her on the street, run like hell.

This book may be even longer than it seems.

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I think most murder mystery/thrillers have elements that push the limits of believability but this was too much. We don’t even have to go much beyond how well, dumb, the main character was. The narrator is good but she does upspeak at the end of sentences a lot, which starts to grate.

Not believable

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The story line held my interest but I didn’t love it. I thought the performance was excellent and, I’m sure, added a great deal to my enjoyment of the novel.

Pretty good “read”

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Love the author LOVE the reader. Excellent characters, really well developed and intriguing. I don’t think I’d enjoy it half as much with any other performer! She really brings the story to life!!

Excellent reader, good story

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The narrator really brought the entire array of eclectic characters to life for me in a way that would not have happened by just reading the hard copy book. Excellent job!

Fantastic narration

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Interesting premise but a predictable ending. They didn't really have a well thought out intriguing ending so it was predictable, flat, even boring. Also, for much of the story this doctor didn't sound like a doctor at all. She didn't even mention she wasn't going to work which was very odd and seemed uncharacteristic. I expected more.

Good, not the best.

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I’ve enjoyed so many Nicci French books, but I couldn’t get past the main character in this one. What doctor would be this dumb? The ending was obvious about 2/3 of the way through, and the authors over explain every turn in the plot, while the protagonist repeats “I still don’t understand “ over and over.

Not their best

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I liked this one a lot! It had me guessing the entire time, and I was constantly saying “noooo why did you do that” to the main character, but not in an annoying way where the main character is so dumb you dislike them. There is a good plot twist that I didn’t guess which is always fun. There were a lot of characters in this book that I despised, and I wish that the ones that seemed like good people played a bigger role. I would definitely recommend this one.

Favorite Nicci French so far!

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