Broken Promise

BROKEN PROMISE by Linwood Barclay

JANUARY 2017

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Born 1955, in New Haven, CT; immigrated to Canada, 1958; Addresses: Home: Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Agent: Helen Heller Agency, 892 Avenue Rd., Toronto, Ontario M5P 2K6, Canada. E-mail: linwoodbarclay@cogeco.ca; linwoodbarclay@mac.com.

CAREER:

Peterborough Examiner, Ontario, Canada, reporter, 1977-79; Oakville Journal Record, member of staff, 1979-81; Toronto Star, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, worked as assistant city editor, news editor, chief copy editor, and life section editor, 1981-93, humor columnist, 1993-2008. Has worked as the manager of a cottage resort and trailer park.

“PROMISE FALLS” SERIES

Promise Falls, New York is a quiet small town with a lot of secrets, most of them unpleasant. Enter former journalist and widower David Harwood, fleeing the past and hoping for a better future. When Harwood realizes that ugliness is simmering beneath the town's placid surface, he feels compelled to investigate in these intricately plotted, suspenseful series.

• Broken promise (Jul 2015)

• Far from true (Mar 2016)

• The twenty-three: a Promise Falls novel (Nov 2016)

"ZACH WALKER" MYSTERY SERIES

• Bad Move, 2004.
• Bad Guys,  2005.
• Lone Wolf, 2006.
• Stone Rain, , 2007.
  

NOVELS

• Mike Harris Made Me Eat My Dog, ECW Press, 1998.
• No Time for Goodbye, 2007.
• Too Close to Home, 2008.
• Fear the Worst, 2009.
• Never Look Away, 2010.
• Clouded Vision, Orion (London, England), 2011.
• The Accident, 2011.
• A Tap on the Window, 2012.
• Trust Your Eyes,2013.
  

OTHER

• Father Knows Zilch: A Guide for Dumbfounded Dads, illustrated by Steve Nease, Stoddart (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1996.
• This House Is Nuts! (humor), Stoddart (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1997.
• Last Resort (memoir), McClelland & Stewart (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2000.

Read-alikes for Promise Falls Series:

1.	David Raker novels  by Tim Weaver  Reason:  The stories in these intricately plotted and suspenseful crime thriller series spiral down into wells of dark deeds and twisted motives. Driven detectives haunted by their pasts struggle to solve violent murders and heinous disappearances, culminating in shocking climaxes. -- Melissa Gray
2.	Bell Elkins mysteries by Julia Keller  Reason:  Set in quiet small towns with dark pasts and vicious criminals, these atmospheric mysteries star a former journalist (Promise Falls) and a former prosecuting attorney (Bell Elkins) who solve crimes while trying to sort out their own lives. -- Mike Nilsson
3.	Joanne Ross novels  by A. D. Scott,   Reason:  Starring flawed journalists and set in quiet small towns, these intricately plotted mysteries are as much about the main characters as they about crime solving. Both series offer a strong sense of place and an interesting supporting cast. -- Mike Nilsson

Author’s website:   http://www.linwoodbarclay.com/news2