He has barely squared his desk blotter when he finds himself unemployed and living with his parents in his childhood home. He was left raising his son alone with a great job at the Boston Globe as an investigative reporter.

Barclay crafts a great story, told from multiple angles, to lure the reader into wondering what could happen next, then chooses a path that was obstructed and forges on.I did figure out one of the crimes before the end, but I was happy to discover that I was not completely right. 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. A multi-layered plot, with an array of intriguing and well-developed characters, and a town of scandalous secrets, lies, conspiracy, murder, possibly revenge, and a list of mysterious events-and the mysterious number, "twenty-three". Best of all Finley has offered David a job running his media and campaign (we are in for a treat with this one).

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. I received an advance reader edition of this book from Penguin Group NAL via NetGalley for the purpose of providing an honest review.He moves back to Promise Falls to take a job with the local paper, which closes its doors his first day on the job. 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. It's up to David to find out what really happened, but he soon discovers that the truth could be worse than he ever imagined .

I do think this series was a brilliant idea and by gosh, after that ending, I'm dying to get my hands on the next one. When the mother of that baby is found murdered, David does all he can to protect Marla despite her sorted past.The loose threads in the run up to the close of Broken Promise are an excellent reason to continue with this trilogy and I shall be with it all the way. Broken Promise smoothly combines a page-turning Harlan Coben pace with a Jeffery Deaver-esque twist. For those who have read Linwood Barclay before, you will be familiar with the upstate New York town of Promise Falls.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. He's on an errand for his mom when he stops in at his cousin Marla's house and discovers her with a baby that 'an angel dropped off.I have read quite a few novels by Linwood Barclay and I think that this book lives up to what I have come to expect from this author.