Safer

Marceline

'Is fanited'

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Safe Area

Used by Cale only in the times of most need...

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Cole

Im here

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Safer

This is a great read. Pulls you in immediately and keeps your attention throughout the ride. If you like mystery with a touch of drama, this is for you.

Doolittle can really tell a story

Not his best, but close and he always goes off of the cliched track

A Thriller to Bore

With the famous writer comments on the cover, I was expecting a lot more from this book that starts out interesting for about 75 pages and then lapses into a very boring and difficult to follow read. I think it is due to the difficult flashback style employed by the author. He uses Paul, the main character who is arrested at the beginning of the book for putting underage porn on the net of his neighbor, to tell the story in first person. Paul keeps saying that he has had to keep from telling his whole side of the story to keep info from his wife. Rather than cause intrigue, it just makes the reader annoyed.

Additionally, the author throws in a meaningless interlude involving Paul's lawyer near the beginning of the book that has no bearing on the rest of the book.

His neighbor Roger Mallory is like the Robert DeNiro character in Meet the Parents and Roger had formed a neighborhood watch and he let Paul know that he is keeping an eye on all. Roger resorts to over the top tactics to do this. It is obvious that Roger is somehow involved in what is causing Paul his grief and as the story winds down and all is revealed, the reader is left shaking their head at a great many things that transpired and have very little sympathy for Paul.

a fast-paced thriller

Paul and Sara Callaway leave Boston for Clark Falls, Iowa. They moved due to her obtaining a position in town. When a teacher is injured, he is hired to replace her for the semester as an English professor at the local college. However, their first night proves auspicious when they have to run off an intruder. They meet self proclaimed neighborhood protector former cop Roger Mallory who welcomes them into his inner circle.

However, Paul becomes concerned when he realizes that Roger is conducting undercover surveillance of his neighbors without their permission. They argue over security vs. rights. Soon afterward the cops arrest Paul during a faculty party. The charges are three counts of producing pornographic images of a minor, which if found guilty can result in up to fifteen years and $200,000 fine. The accuser is Brittany Seward, the thirteen years old daughter of his next door neighbor. His lawyer Douglas Bennett paints a bleak picture. Although the evidence is overwhelming as his hard drive will prove impossible to explain, refusing to be locked away without a fight, Paul investigates the person framing him: Roger.

From the opening scene when the cops arrest Paul until the final CLEANUP of all the DIRT, SAFER is a fast-paced thriller of an academic in deep trouble with increasing proof he committed the crimes he is accused of. Paul is terrific as a yuppie desperately trying to prove his innocence. The support cast, mostly with its close knit small town attitude, close in on hanging him. Although Clark Falls is more or ¿loess¿ a Peyton Place with the residents having many dark secrets, Sean Doolittle provides ax exciting thriller.

Harriet Klausner

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