Broken Promise: (Promise Falls Trilogy Book 1)

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He does not want to panic his cousin, and when she is getting dressed, David sees a flyer in the stroller with an address.

The novel was full of great characters and several story-lines that kept me gripped and wanting to know more. Three of those seventeen novels comprise the epic Promise Falls trilogy: Broken Promise, Far From True, and The Twenty-Three.Running an errand one day, he discovers his cousin looking after a baby - strange as her child died at birth - her story of an Angel delivering the child sets David off to find the parents, but what he finds is horrific and begins a difficult chain of events. In 2004, he launched his mystery series about an anxiety-ridden, know-it-all, pain-in-the-butt father by the name of Zack Walker. 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 Harwood has a good job working as an assistant editor on a newspaper in Boston and is raising his son on his own.

But as he uncovers each piece of evidence, David realizes that Marla’s mysterious child is just the tip of the iceberg. m. Aug 4 as part of "Between The Covers," the WXEL Book Club at the WXEL station, Boynton Beach to air Aug.It is only when a woman is found stabbed to death across town and her baby missing that the pieces fall into place in a resounding fashion, leaving David to wonder if his cousin might be a cold-hearted killer. He's even more disturbed to find Marla looking after a baby, a baby she claims was delivered to her 'by an angel'. Because of this latest incident, David Harwood is forced to move back in with his parents along with his son, Ethan. 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. 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?

He has barely squared his desk blotter when he finds himself unemployed and living with his parents in his childhood home. The first sign that something wasn’t quite right at Marla’s house was what looked like a smeared hand print in blood beside the front door – the second sign was Marla calmly bottle feeding a baby inside the house. Broken Promise is the first book in the epic Promise Falls Trilogy from master of the thriller, Linwood Barclay. However, Marla Pickens has a surprise for David, a baby she claims was passed along to her "by an angel". Most of the story lines come to a conclusion in a very satisfying way, so this 'could' be a stand-alone.He was left raising his son alone with a great job at the Boston Globe as an investigative reporter. The promised job as a reporter at the Standard soon evaporates and he ends up living back with his parents.

For those who have read Linwood Barclay before, you will be familiar with the upstate New York town of Promise Falls. He’s even more disturbed to find Marla looking after a baby, a baby she claims was delivered to her ‘by an angel’.

Detective Duckworth has to find out the killer and at the same time some person in town had just killed and strung 23 squirrels and did something at the abandoned fairground. His mom, Arlene is forgetting things; Jack the doctor has a gambling habit, Marla is struggling with reality, Samantha, the mother of Carl (the boy who was mean to Ethan), with baggage of her own; works at a laundromat, wear tight jeans, hot, and carries a shotgun—possible love connection for David?