![]() ![]() ![]() She hasn’t seen him for years, but then he turns up asking her to do him a favour. Husband-and-wife writing team Nicci French’s latest, The Favour (Simon & Schuster, £16.99), follows the fallout when Jude, a doctor, is contacted by her first boyfriend, Liam. Penny delves into the nature of evil, sensitively exploring the impact of the dreadful events she describes while bringing a warmth and humanity to her disparate cast of characters that, unusually for a crime novel, leaves you feeling better about the world once you’ve finished. It is perfectly possible to pick up the story from here if you haven’t read these novels before, but I would thoroughly recommend giving yourself a treat and starting from the beginning with Still Life. A World of Curiosities(Hodder & Stoughton, £16.99) is the 18th novel in Canadian writer Louise Penny’s Gamache series. ![]()
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