The Broken Promise Pt. 1

David Harwood lost everything when his wife passed away. But as he adjusts to life back in his childhood home, he uncovers clues to a devastating family secret.

Linwood Barclay is a New York Times and #1 international bestselling author whose critically acclaimed novels have been optioned for...

Anshuman Iddamsetty was Hazlitt’s art director and audio/visual producer. Before that ...

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Ritual animal slaughter, a baby delivered by a blood-stained “angel,” and an abandoned ferris wheel.

Welcome to Promise Falls.

For the next four days, we’ll post an episode of Broken Promise, a new miniseries adapted from Linwood Barclay’s latest thriller of the same name, and performed by the author himself.

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