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I just finished Linwood Barclay's most recent domestic thriller, Broken Promise. I'd been putting off reading it because I knew that it was going to leave loose ends that will be dealt with in a follow-up novel next spring, but I finally couldn't resist anymore. The story was fun to listen to, even though the part of it that was resolved was rather predictable.
This is another book that used what seems to be a currently popular technique of a first-person narration and a third-person narration by two different performers. (Happily, neither of them was Scott Brick, who seems to be the narrator on every other book I listen to in this genre!)
Barclay reuses a lot of characters from previous books, which are usually set in an upstate New York community called Promise Falls. Most of the references to events in past books are kept vague, though, so it doesn't matter if you've read them.
Now I'm waiting for Tuesday's release of James Kaplan's The Chairman, the second and last installment of his massive Frank Sinatra biography. Ohhhh, Frankie!
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