Broken Promise: (Promise Falls Trilogy Book 1)

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For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice centre (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK). One thing I really like about this book was that it has connections to Too Close to Home, it's the same town and some characters from that book are in this one as well. 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. 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. 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.He held such positions as assistant city editor, chief copy editor, news editor, and Life section editor, before becoming the paper’s humour columnist in 1993. When David's mother presses him to prove Marla's innocence and ask questions around the town, in essence what his whole career has been about, he is initially reluctant but slowly consumed by events in the town where the Marla situation is not the only bizarre going on. 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. Little does he know running this simple errand will land him in the middle of a murder investigation?

But as he uncovers each piece of evidence, David realizes that Marla’s mysterious child is just the tip of the iceberg. It still held lots of mystery and a bad ass antagonist who would stop at nothing to cover his tracks. Essentially, fans of Linwood Barclay will find Broken Promise full of a promising tale of a town that would like to keep its secret. 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.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? This is the perfect excuse to start taking a closer look at the everyday folk that you nod to when passing on the street.

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. When the baby's real mother is found murdered, David can't help wanting to piece together what happened--even if it means proving his own cousin's guilt. It usually means the author is finding the formula a bit of a chore and is trying to amuse himself at the expense of reader. In addition to this murder, Officer Barry Duckworth (obsessed with donuts and trying to lose weight) has his hands full, juggling cases coming at him at once with a sweep of crimes in the area.

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. I have to admit that I was able to guess a few of the big twists but I found enough surprises along the way to keep my interest. of our deliveries are made by Royal Mail as we think they give the best service and cover all areas of the UK.

a relentless white-knuckle ride of a thriller, set in the fictional small American town of Promise Falls.

Readers can join the Barclay train at any time and not miss a beat, though his sometimes minute references to past stories are not lost on long-time fans. The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter.