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The Safety Expert
by
Doug Richardson (Goodreads Author)
Ben Keller lives life by one simple rule. Safety first. Ben is keenly aware of life’s hidden dangers. Ben never smokes. Ben always uses the crosswalk. Ben always drives within the speed limit. He has to because safety is his business. From his home in Simi Valley, California, one of the safest cities in the United States, Ben works hard at living a perfectly normal, perfec...more
Paperback, 354 pages
Published
December 5th 2011
by Velvet Elvis Entertainment
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A Polished Storyteller
Doug Richardson has sterling credentials as both a screenwriter of note and a novelist. Perhaps it is the fact that he is able to create a verbal drama for the visual screen so well that makes reading his novels seem like taking a walk or a ride with his characters. THE SAFETY EXPERT is a film waiting to happen and we can only hope that Richardson will move forward with this story, creating a screenplay: so many of his characters seem already cast with some of today's best...more
Doug Richardson has sterling credentials as both a screenwriter of note and a novelist. Perhaps it is the fact that he is able to create a verbal drama for the visual screen so well that makes reading his novels seem like taking a walk or a ride with his characters. THE SAFETY EXPERT is a film waiting to happen and we can only hope that Richardson will move forward with this story, creating a screenplay: so many of his characters seem already cast with some of today's best...more
Imagine living your life in a safe manner, being mister reliable and totally dependable, obeying all the rules and not taking any chances. When out of the blue you receive a cd through the post, from a dying convict telling you that he knows who killed your first wife and twin daughters, naming him and giving you his address. All this happens to Ben, it affects his life in a big way and his current wife suspects he is having an affair but the lady in question is a police officer who is helping B...more
What would you do if your past comes knocking on your safely rebuilt life's door? Would you be able to relive the traumatic events again, after trying so hard to let go of the grief and move forward? What if reliving the past may cost you your safety, which is how you live your life, can you deal with the consequences no matter the cost? These are the questions that Ben Keller had to deal with in his life as The Safety Expert.
Ben Keller is living a good life in Simi Valley, California: he has a...more
Ben Keller is living a good life in Simi Valley, California: he has a...more
Ben Keller's family was murdered twelve years ago, though he has moved on and remarried, he tries to keep his life in control and safe. But when a dying inmate leaves a message for Ben, telling him who murdered his family, Ben's life begins to unravel. Ben begins to investigate Stew Raymo, and even goes undercover to his buisness, and Stew has started over, marrying an ex porn star and starting his own buisness, but he begins to get suspicious of Ben and starts his own investigation, now the ga...more
My Rating 4.25 stars
An inmate’s deathbed confession turns Ben Keller’s life upside down. Fourteen years earlier a horrific act of violence shattered Ben, but slowly, over the years, he has remade himself. Ben knows all about safety and gets paid generously for his expertise. Now, however, he finds himself at a crossroads – risk everything or follow the safe, sane path.
This complex and riveting story had me literally biting my nails at times. The novel is suspenseful and entertaining; it unfolds...more
An inmate’s deathbed confession turns Ben Keller’s life upside down. Fourteen years earlier a horrific act of violence shattered Ben, but slowly, over the years, he has remade himself. Ben knows all about safety and gets paid generously for his expertise. Now, however, he finds himself at a crossroads – risk everything or follow the safe, sane path.
This complex and riveting story had me literally biting my nails at times. The novel is suspenseful and entertaining; it unfolds...more
While the premise of this novel intrigued me I must admit I was swayed to accept this novel for review by the author's impressive list of screenplay writing credits. In the Safety Expert, Doug Richardson explores what risks a man will take when his past comes back to haunt him.
Though for me The Saftey Expert started slowly, the pace begins to pick up around a quarter of the way in. Richardson's experience in screenwriting is evident in his ability to create scenes and characters that are easy t...more
Though for me The Saftey Expert started slowly, the pace begins to pick up around a quarter of the way in. Richardson's experience in screenwriting is evident in his ability to create scenes and characters that are easy t...more
This book is a great example of how a person's mental stability degrades after a seed of doubt is planted. This book played out much like a Shakespearean tragedy in my head- only with a bit of a happier ending.
The characters are all average Joe's... going about their lives in a normal boring fashion in the Los Angeles area. A risk assessor, his assistant, a contractor, his ex-porn star wife, a paralyzed private detective, a housewife and a single-mother-cop: people I could compare to my own frie...more
The characters are all average Joe's... going about their lives in a normal boring fashion in the Los Angeles area. A risk assessor, his assistant, a contractor, his ex-porn star wife, a paralyzed private detective, a housewife and a single-mother-cop: people I could compare to my own frie...more
The protagonist is safety conscious but fortunately not to the point of being OCD, so his safety obsession makes him interesting as a character but doesn't make you find him overly annoying. I liked the twists and character relationships.
A good thriller with plenty of situations where I found myself saying "What would I do?". Or another question Can you ever let go? Thank you Doug for great story with enough twists to keep me on edge.
Could not put this book down. Great plot, characters, and suspense.
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Doug Richardson is the author of two previous novels—Dark Horse and True Believers. A well-known, respected screenwriter, his film credits include Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Bad Boys, Money Train, and Hostage. He lives in Southern California with his wife, two children and four mutts.
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How do your nails look now? Hope they're OK for a Valentines dinner tomorrow.
Feb 13, 2012 07:40am