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Broken Promise (Promise Falls, #1)

Linwood Barclay

Start date: October 12, 2018

Finish date: October 20, 2018

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Oct 26, 2015 Petra rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, series, audible, uk-kindle, 2016-audio-book-challenge

I've never read a book by Linwood Barclay before. No idea why it's taken me this long, but hey, better late than never. At least now that I have waited this long, I've got the second book in his Promise Falls trilogy ready to read straight after. I really enjoyed Barclay's style of writing. Although this wasn't an intense thriller, I was totally hooked right from the start all the way through. With multiple story lines, several different perspectives and intriguing characters, this was a well-pl ...more

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Sep 05, 2015 Samantha rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I am a fan of Linwood Barclay and was very pleased to read and review this latest novel - I did not realise it was to form part of a series but once I realised this it made sense that not all of the plots were solved at the end.

Like all of his previous novels he manages to hook the reader from the start - various little mysteries happening as sub plots in the book and the main story interwoven with these makes for a clever novel that keeps the interest going to the end.

Good main characters hel I am a fan of Linwood Barclay and was very pleased to read and review this latest novel - I did not realise it was to form part of a series but once I realised this it made sense that not all of the plots were solved at the end.

Like all of his previous novels he manages to hook the reader from the start - various little mysteries happening as sub plots in the book and the main story interwoven with these makes for a clever novel that keeps the interest going to the end.

Good main characters help this novel move along - the main character David Harwood a journalist (single parent to Ethan aged 9) is forced to move back to his home town with his son and move in with his parents when finds himself out of work. Moving back in with your parents is no easy thing to do and David resolves that this will be just a temporary move until he can find work locally.

When he visits his cousin Marla to deliver some food his mother has asked him to take to her he begins the start of a mystery he just has to solve. Blood on Marla's door and a baby she is caring for that is not her own who she claims was given to her by an angel is just one of the mysteries that he uncovers. Sub plots include a woman found stabbed, 23 dead squirrels and a college campus where several women have been attacked. I liked Detective Duckworth who made a good contrast to David and great sounding board for some of the theories.

Marla, having lost her own baby is in a fragile state and when she is suspected of the murder of Rosemary Gaynor and stealing her baby David becomes involved in trying to find out the truth.

There is a lot going on in this book and I felt I had to go back and re-read some of the novel in places as it was becoming a little confusing but it was still a good read. Plenty of twists and turns as you would expect with this author and given that it is to form a series the fact that some issues were not fully resolved is acceptable. Lots happening to keep the reader interested with good identifiable characters. Another success for Linwood Barclay - gets a well deserved 4 stars from me.

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Feb 20, 2019 Andrew rated it really liked it

Shelves: audiobooks-2019

As you would expect from Linwood Barclay some excellent plotting and a book that moves along at a pace, with some unexpected twists thrown in. Certainly could not have guessed the eventual outcome of this book. Took a bit longer than usual to get going for his books but that may be because it is the first book in a trilogy. I want to see where Linwood Barclay takes this, so straight onto book 2. If you like good mysteries I would recommend this.

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Aug 20, 2015 Eadie Burke rated it liked it

Shelves: read-2015

This book had a hard time getting started but did pick up about 1/2 way through. Since this is part of a trilogy, it felt a little slow-paced as if Barclay was trying to stretch the story out over 3 books. It has plots and sub-plots which are a little bit too much for one book and it got a bit convoluted. In the end he came through, so I am looking forward to the next book in the trilogy. I've read other Barclay books, so I know he's a talented writer. Just don't let this one be the first of his ...more

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