Broken Promise: (Promise Falls Trilogy Book 1)

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Wait until you meet unemployed journalist David Harwood, a single father to a nine-year-old son, Ethan who finds himself living back in his childhood home (and single bed) that he last occupied twenty years ago. These characters along with the other residents of Promise Fall will spend the three days trying to solve the mysteries that are taking place in their small town. Registered address: Unit 31, Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, LE5 3EF, United kingdom. After his wife’s death and the collapse of his newspaper, David Harwood has no choice but to uproot his nine-year-old son and move back into his childhood home in Promise Falls, New York. Barclay’s 2011 thriller, The Accident, has been turned into the six-part television series L’Accident in France, and he adapted his novel Never Saw it Coming for the movie, directed by Gail Harvey and starring Eric Roberts and Emily Hampshire.

They are not all solved at the end of this book, in fact, there are more unanswered questions, but it works and I can't wait to get to the next book. With BROKEN PROMISE, his 14th work of fiction, Barclay begins to bring together characters introduced in past titles while advancing and updating their storylines.If that isn't crazy enough, there is a nutso on the loose either raping women, leaving dead squirrels tied up to trees, or mannequins on rides at a bankrupt amusement park. I wouldn't say that the ending was cliffhanger because the main focus of the story was resolved even though a lot of questions do remain. But there are still things out there for him to look into, like how his cousin Marla has acquired a baby she swears was given to her by an angel. The fictional town of Promise Falls situated in Upstate New York and just north of Albany is the setting for Broken Promise, the first novel in what is set to be a trilogy. When the mother of that baby is found murdered, David does all he can to protect Marla despite her sorted past.

What’s even more impressive is that every single story moves forward simultaneously in real-time and the inevitable cliff-hangers as Barclay moves the reader from one perspective to another are never interminable or irritating. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. My only other Barclay read is Tap on the Window, but that book and this novel are enough for me to see that Mr.The first chapter may read simply "I hate this town", but readers will be seduced by the dark heart of Promise Falls. As the novel opens, David (main character) is moving back to Promise Falls, the town he hates; moving in with his parents. The main mystery deals with the murder of the mother of an infant son but there is more going on in this little town including incidents at the local amusement park, the local college, and even a case involving squirrels. Broken Promise is a treat, full of ingenuity and flair and, what's more, it's a book that does not accentuate its effects, but assumes that the reader will be paying the closest attention. Broken Promise smoothly combines a page-turning Harlan Coben pace with a Jeffery Deaver-esque twist.

With a history of non-consensual baby acquisition from the Promise Falls Hospital, Marla could be up to her old tricks. Real and interesting characters, a fast-paced page turning thriller and many unanswered questions have me eagerly awaiting the next Linwood Barclay book. His mother asks him to take some food to his cousin Marla, who is having some mental health issues and when he gets there she has a baby that she says an "angel" brought her. An intense and fast paced plot, the ending left just enough questions to lead into the next book of the series (not too long I hope) but tied up (most) of the story nicely. The baby was stillborn 10 mos earlier, and Marla has not recovered, and afterwards caught stealing another baby from the hospital.Of course, her mom is the hospital administrator and takes care of covering things, as she is all about control and appearances. Thank you to Netgalley , and publishers Penguin Group for a digital ARC of Broken Promise by Linwood Barclay in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.