A small favor

A book touted as a successor to Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, A Simple Favor includes betrayals and twists, a dead person and the recurring question: who is deceiving whom? When her best friend, Emily, asks Stephanie to pick up her son Nicky from school, she happily agrees. Nicky and her son, Miles, are best friends—just like her and Emily. But Emily doesn't return. She doesn't answer her phone or respond to messages. Stephanie knows something is terribly wrong. Terrified, she turns to her blog readers for help. Until she and Emily's husband, Sean, receive shocking news: Emily is dead. The nightmare of her disappearance is finally over. Or is it?