A Simple Favor by Darcey Bell [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING] 2017 • Knopf

A Simple Favor by Darcey Bell FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [2017] ALFRED A. KNOPF Hardcover with dust jacket;  new and unread overstock copy w/ remainder mark across top page edge.   Reads as new.   It starts with a simple favor—an ordinary kindness mothers do for one another. When her best friend, Emily, asks Stephanie to pick up her son Nicky after school, she happily says yes. Nicky and her son, Miles, are classmates and best friends, and the five-year-olds love being together—just like she and Emily. A widow and stay-at-home mommy blogger living in woodsy suburban Connecticut, Stephanie was lonely until she met Emily, a sophisticated PR executive whose job in Manhattan demands so much of her time.But Emily doesn’t come back. She doesn’t answer calls or return texts. Stephanie knows something is terribly wrong—Emily would never leave Nicky, no matter what the police say. Terrified, she reaches out to her blog readers for help. She also reaches out to Emily’s husband, the handsome