Broken Promise

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The morning it all started, newspaper reporter David Harwood had plenty to worry about. A single parent with no job, forced to return with his young son to the small town of Promise Falls to live with his parents, the future wasn’t looking too rosy. So when his mother asked him to look in on his cousin Marla, who was still not quite right after losing her baby, it was almost a relief to put the disaster his own life had become to one side. The relief wouldn’t last long. When he gets to Marla’s house he’s disturbed to find a smear of blood on the front door. He’s even more disturbed to find Marla nursing a baby, a baby she claims was delivered to her ‘by an angel.’ And when, soon after, a woman’s body is discovered across town, stabbed to death, with her own baby missing, it looks as if Marla has done something truly terrible.

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Welcome to Promise Falls. The small town with a big secret.

David Harwood is asked to check up on his cousin Marla, who’s not been herself since losing her baby nearly a year ago. But when he gets there, he finds blood on the door.

Inside, Marla happily looks after a baby that isn’t hers. She claims it was delivered ‘by an angel’, but David fears the worst.

His suspicions come true when a woman’s dead body is found – with her own baby missing – making Marla the only suspect in the investigation.

But David knows no matter how troubled she is: Marla isn’t a murderer. Is someone lurking in the shadows? And how far will David go to protect his family?

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Praise for Linwood Barclay

‘Nothing is more satisfying than tucking into a new Linwood Barclay novel’ Shari Lapena, author of The Couple Next Door

‘A suspense master’ Stephen King

‘One of the best thriller writers in the world’ Mark Billingham

‘Seamless, breathless and relentlessly paced’ Mirror

Additional information

Weight 0.368 kg
Dimensions 13.1 × 20 × 3.4 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

501

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K