About the Book
When a man agrees to do a favor for a friend, he gets more than he bargained for as he becomes embroiled in a woman’s murder in this new thriller from the USA Today bestselling author of Layover.
Ryan Francis has it all—great job, wonderful wife, beautiful child—and he loves posting photos of his perfect life on social media. Until the night his friend Blake asks him to break into a woman’s home to retrieve incriminating items that implicate Blake in an affair. Ryan refuses to help, but when Blake threatens to reveal Ryan’s darkest secret—which could jeopardize everything in Ryan’s life—Ryan has no choice but to honor Blake’s request.
When he arrives at the woman’s home, Ryan is shocked to find her dead—and just as shocked to realize he knows her. Then his phone chimes, revealing a Facebook friend request from the woman. With police sirens rapidly approaching, Ryan flees, wondering why his friend was setting him up for murder.
Determined to keep his life intact and to clear his name, Ryan must find the real murderer—but solving the crime may lead him closer to home than he ever could have imagined.
My Review
The Request is a twisty thriller that explores themes of loyalty, family, guilt, regrets – and social media. When Ryan agrees to help old friend Blake with an ominous request – and subsequent threat – he gets entangled in a murder investigation that keeps spiraling by day and drags his family into it. We learn more about Ryan and Blake throughout the story – their choices in college that haunt the friends to this day, how both Ryan and Blake know the murdered woman – but there are also plenty of questions along the way. How is the deceased sending friend requests on Facebook? Who is really targeting Ryan’s family? And how does Blake fiancée tie into the storyline? The added plot point of social media and so many people feeling the need to only showcase the most perfect parts of their lives online was interesting to me as a social media influencer, and I found myself staying intrigued as each chapter went on. If you are a fan of thrillers this is a tense page turner!
4 stars
