Broken Promise: (Promise Falls Trilogy Book 1)

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Move over Michael Connelly- The state of Florida and its loyal fans have room for two outstanding crime authors! While doing so, he is extremely considerate of readers who are new to his work or who have dipped into the Promise Falls canon only intermittently. m. Aug 4 as part of "Between The Covers," the WXEL Book Club at the WXEL station, Boynton Beach to air Aug. 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. 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 author is also exceptionally good at diverting the readers attention and running the more routine aspects of his characters lives alongside the more pivotal events, such as Ethan's school fight, to the tasty banana bread that Duckworth is given at the home of a witness and his losing battle with his weight. The baby was stillborn 10 mos earlier, and Marla has not recovered, and afterwards caught stealing another baby from the hospital. Running an errand and delivering frozen pre-prepared meals to his cousin, Marla Pickens, on behalf of his mother he discovers that she is secretly harbouring a child, and most definitely not her own child. Just Great – now no job, or any prospects of a job in this miserable town, living with nosy parents, (Don and Arlene), plus his son-- the new kid at school, has no friends and is miserable—with some issues with another boy at school.Then another altogether creepy discovery comes to light as the retired Ferris wheel at the Five Mountains theme park is found in operation, giving three naked mannequins a free ride with a very ominous warning written across their chests.

The hardest part of this task was overcoming the badly formatted copy I had that was littered with extra numbers printed on each page. When his mother asks him to check in on a wayward cousin, still suffering from the recent loss of a baby, David is sure this will be a quick meeting and distraction from his dreary life. Best of all Finley has offered David a job running his media and campaign (we are in for a treat with this one). There is a weary sense of decline and decay that hangs over David’s first person account --- from his son Ethan’s unhappiness and his own feelings of failure to his parents’ demonstrable decline in their faculties.Unfolding over the course of a weekend - just two days, rather unbelievably - leading up to the Memorial Day weekend in May this is a fast and furious car crash take on life in a down-at-heel town. 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. David was working for the Boston Globe, when he became a single parent, and decided to move back to Promise Falls so that his parents can help him with his son, Ethan.

He’s even more disturbed to find Marla looking after a baby, a baby she claims was delivered to her ‘by an angel’. Don't take me wrong I love books with lots of descriptions and when it takes time for events to happen and long chapters too. 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.

I was determined not to let this spoil my enjoyment and enjoy what appears to be the first in a new series of books by this talented author. 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. And, the connections between David and his family with others in the town provide more murky situations. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

There were several twists and turns along the way, although I had pretty much figured some of them out before they happened. An unemployed single father, without a place of his own to reside and not getting any younger he is a great catch as father, Don, is quick to point out. Was so engrossed, purchased the audiobook, narrated by Quincy Dunn Baker and Brian O'Neil in addition to the e-book for a suspenseful performance.The motive for hurting the people of this town points to the number 23—and working out why will bring Duckworth closer to death than ever before. There is also a backstory of Olivia Fisher, a young woman with a bright future, killed years ago in a brutal murder. Her mother died of cancer recently, and the dad remaining - still grieving, and left to control the fiancé, who has turned into a raging alcoholic. From the New York Times- -bestselling author of No Safe House comes the first novel in an explosive trilogy about the disturbing secrets of a quiet small town. However, the town where David grew up and his parents still reside has been touched by scandal, a recent surge in crime and is now on the decline.