Part of this favor has her lying to her fiancé so she can travel for hours to a cottage to await Liam's arrival and this is when and where he'll explain more.

She owes him and it seems a simple request, but of course she has no idea what lies behind it, and the outcome turns her whole life upside down.The writing is sharp and suspenseful, the authors holding me in the palm of their hands as they wove their web of words around me. In this unputdownable new thriller from the bestselling author duo behind House of Correction, a woman finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation after her first love suddenly turns up in her life asking for a favour – and shortly after turns up dead. It then jumps forward over a decade where we find Jude is now working as a doctor in a hospital and planning her wedding to her fiance, Nat. Each character elongated syllables distorted the messages, was in congruous and made everyone seem unintelligent.

Supposed intelligent dedicated physician somehow has enough time and stupidity to get herself involved with the one that got away and never apologised for almost killing her in a car crash 11 years earlier. I always seem to have an unpopular opinion, but this time it's because I seemed to enjoy the book more than the other reviewers. I thought it was well written, tense at times, frustrating at others (I was mentally begging Jude to get out of that house! Liam, was her 'great love', but even she was perturbed when he turned up out of the blue to ask her a huge favour, one that he asked that she tell nobody about. When the police show up at the station instead of Liam, Jude realizes that she knows nothing about the man he’s become.The Chalke History Festival announces a new name, new look, and tons for history buffs to get their teeth into! Imagine her surprise when she see's that it's Liam, her boyfriend for a summer when she was 18 years old, the one she has thought of often throughout the years wondering what happened to him.

Yet, before she can resolve the present crisis, she has to take a painful journey back into her own past.

One of contemporary British fiction’s most famous double-acts, Nicci French is the pseudonym of husband and wife writing team Nicci Gerard and Sean French. Occasionally, Jude’s actions seem a bit bizzare for an educated woman, but as the story unfolds you begin to understand why some things are like they are (although it still makes some of her actions a little questionable – I mean, she really does not seem to spot a warning sign…). And I enjoyed this even though the protagonist – Jude, a young geriatrician – annoyed the crap out of me, making one bad decision after another. However, ‘The Favour’ fails to engage when Jude becomes more and more caught up with Liam’s housemates. None of the characters were likeable, and yet characterisations were spot on, one of the hallmarks the author team is known for and what keeps me coming back for more every time.