Your Heart Belongs to Me
From the Publisher: At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocket ? until the first troubling symptoms appeared out of nowhere. Within days, he's diagnosed with incurable cardiomyopathy and finds himself on the waiting list for a heart transplant; it's his only hope, and it's dwindling fast. Ryan is […]
Odd Hours
Synopsis: Only a handful of fictional characters are recognized by first name alone. Dean Koontz?s Odd Thomas is one of those rare literary heroes who have come alive in readers? imaginations as he explores the greatest mysteries of this world and the next with his inimitable wit, heart, and quiet gallantry. Now Koontz follows Odd […]
The Darkest Evening of the Year
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Set mostly in Southern California, this topnotch thriller from bestseller Koontz (The Good Guy) depicts with unabashed emotion and wit the magical powers of golden retrievers?in particular, a female named Nickie, who will stop at nothing to save innocent children and protect their guardians. Amy Redwing, the survivor of a […]
The Good Guy
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Bestseller Koontz (The Husband) delivers a thriller so compelling many readers will race through the book in one sitting. In the Hitchcockian opening, which resembles that of the cult noir film Red Rock West (1992), Timothy Carrier, a quiet stone mason having a beer in a California bar, meets a […]
The Paper Doorway : Funny Verse and Nothing Worse
Publisher Weekly Review: Bestselling novelist Koontz rejoins his collaborator on Santa's Twin for this uneven roundup of poems whose humor sometimes misses the mark. All poems are narrated in the first-person; Parks portrays both boy and girl narrators. Among the most clever entries is the title poem, in which the narrator tells of losing himself […]
Brother Odd
Publishers Weekly: Bestseller Koontz's third Odd Thomas novel (after Forever Odd) offers an irresistibly offbeat mix of supernatural horror and laugh-out-loud humor. A resident of St. Bartholomew's Abbey, a monastery in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Thomas has the ability to see the spirits of the dead, a gift he has used to resolve mysteries and […]
The Husband
Publisher Weekly Review: Koontz (Forever Odd) is likely to have himself another bestseller in this pulse-pounding thriller with echoes of Hitchcock and Cornell Woolrich. One morning, Southern California gardener Mitchell Rafferty gets a call on his cellphone from a stranger saying that Mitch's beloved wife, Holly, has been kidnapped and that he has less than […]
Forever Odd
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Besides having an unusual moniker, 21-year-old Odd Thomas (whom readers first met in Koontz's 2003 novel of the same name) has some very unusual powers, chief among them his ability to see the dead. He can see, feel and talk to them, too (though they don't talk back: "Perhaps they […]
Dean Koontz\’s Frankenstein book one, Prodigal Son
A brilliant re-imagining and updating of the classic Frankenstein story that only Dean Koontz could conceive, PRODIGAL SON is the first volume in a four-book series that opens with the “monster”–Deucalion–coming to modern-day New Orleans, where he will join forces with a street-smart police detective and her partner on the trail of a macabre serial […]
Dean Koontz\’s Frankenstein book two, City of Night
This second title in the four-book paperback original series–Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein–is a brilliant re-imagining of the classic story that only world-renowned and New York Times bestselling author could conceive, bringing the two hundred-year-old “monster,” a literate, mysterious loner, to modern day New Orleans on the trail of his creator.