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Broken Promise: (Promise Falls Trilogy Book 1)

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This is the start of an exciting unraveling of events, with David, Detective Barry Duckworth, the ex mayor and numerous other characters coming into the mix. While it held my interest throughout, at times I felt there were too many stories competing for attention.He decides to do a little digging into the identity of the real mother and the details of her death. But as he uncovers each piece of evidence, David realizes that Marla's mysterious child is just the tip of the iceberg. He engages his investigative reporter’s skill set to uncover the true mother’s identity, but when he discovers her dead body at her home, things look quite bad for Marla.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Broken Promise see's the indomitable Linwood Barclay back on top form - in this case starting a series which having read this makes me VERY happy. When they arrive, at the home, they find a dead woman, Rosemary Gaynor, brutally murdered, and a frantic husband, Bill. I was really looking forward to this after having heard about it from some other readers, so thanks to the reading room and Hachette Australia for my advanced reader copy to read and review. 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.He was to be a reporter for the local newspaper but it closed on his first day and now he’s living with his parents until he finds something new. I was kind of surprised to find that this story left a few loose ends that I am sure will be picked up in future installments. a relentless white-knuckle ride of a thriller, set in the fictional small American town of Promise Falls. Just as you think you know where this is heading, Mr Barclay will throw in a twist to the plot that has the book heading off in a completely unexpected direction. The people you hear about on the news with their neighbors saying 'I'm so shocked, they were always so nice!

I’ve read a couple of Linwood Barclay novels and have loved the gripping suspense, ruthless killers and unexpected twists. Plenty of good old-fashioned murders, extortion, kidnappings and police work, to be sure, but readers will also discover a novel full of cerebral shudders, bone-deep frissons and eye-blinking “What the hell was that all about?Some female students at a local college have been the subject of attacks, and someone has killed and hung a large group of squirrels on display in one of the local parks. There are several story lines running parallel to each other, but at some point they start dovetailing. I did figure out one of the crimes before the end, but I was happy to discover that I was not completely right. What this book IS about is actually far more scary than that, because it's a story about people we all know and trust who have gone bad. Broken Promise is a gripping novel filled with suspense and thrilling twists, which caused this reader’s heart to pound on more than one occasion!

Broken promise wasn’t a bad read, quite the opposite, with multiple plot lines it was intricate and well written. Of course, her mom is the hospital administrator and takes care of covering things, as she is all about control and appearances.

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. David seemed a little unemotional, less shocked by his discoveries at cousin Marla's house than you might expect, but by and large I thought Barclay introduced some interesting folk. With a history of non-consensual baby acquisition from the Promise Falls Hospital, Marla could be up to her old tricks. I particularly enjoyed ex-newspaper reporter David Harwood, police detective Barry Duckworth, and medical examiner Wanda Therrieult. Little does he know running this simple errand will land him in the middle of a murder investigation?

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