Dean R Koontz
1) Innocence
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Addison Goodheart lives in solitude beneath the city, an exile from a society which will destroy him if he is ever seen. Books are his refuge and his escape: he embraces the riches they have to offer. By night he leaves his hidden chambers and, through a network of storm drains and service tunnels, makes his way into the central library. And that is where he meets Gwyneth, who, like Addison, also hides her true appearance and struggles to trust anyone....
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Old Silas Kinsley is the self-appointed resident historian of The Pendleton, a 19th-century building which has now been converted into a number of highly desirable condominiums. He has discovered that there is a cycle of strangeness and tragedy in The Pendleton's past - and it is about to head into another of its disturbing cycles.
Author
Series
Jane Hawk volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
'I very much need to be dead'. These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, determined to do what all the grief and fury inside her demand: find the truth, no matter what. People of talent, seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge....
Author
Series
Jane Hawk volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
'Do what you were born to do'. These are the words that ring in the mind of a mild-mannered and beloved teacher as she drives a car full of burning gasoline into a hotel. This catastrophic act of terror, which kills herself and many others, is deemed to be the tragic death of someone who was clearly insane. But rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk knows the truth. In the wake of her husband's inexplicable suicide, she picks up the trail of a secret cabal of...
5) Deeply odd
Author
Series
Odd Thomas volume 6
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Our reluctant hero is drawn once more into a strange encounter with the lingering dead. Intuition compels Odd to attend the Eventide Festival, where thousands gather every year for three days and nights of hedonism. As Odd finds himself among nihilistic celebrants with sinister intentions, Eventide Festival proves to be a little bit Woodstock and a lot of Hell.
6) Ashley Bell
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Bibi Blair is a fierce, funny, dauntless young woman - whose doctor says she has one year to live. She replies, 'We'll see'. Her sudden recovery is a medical miracle. An enigmatic woman convinces Bibi that she escaped death so that she can save someone else - someone named Ashley Bell. But who is Ashley Bell? And what exactly does she need saving from? Bibi's obsession with finding Ashley sends her on the run from threats both mystical and worldly,...
9) Lost souls
Author
Series
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In a reworking of one of the classic stories of all time, Dr Frankenstein lives on, seemingly indestructible, more malignant than ever. Frankenstein's first monster, Deucalion, has spent 200 years trying to put an end to his creator. Now he learns that a new Frankenstein clone, Victor Helios, is out there again, somewhere.
10) Prodigal son
Author
Series
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Created centuries ago by a madman, possessed of supernatural powers and a drive for justice, Deucalion arrives in New Orleans. His path will cross with that of tough police detective Carson O'Connor and her partner, Michael Maddison, who are on the trail of a vicious serial killer.
11) City of night
Author
Series
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
They are stronger, heal better and think faster than any humans ever created - and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios can stop the engineered killers he has set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans.
13) The night window
Author
Series
Jane Hawk volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
'I'm afraid. I'm so afraid. Where are you, Mommy?' Rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk is living in a world of danger. Her battle to expose a global conspiracy risks her own life and that of her five-year-old son, whom she has sent into hiding. But more than just their lives are at stake: this is a war for the free will of millions. Jane is meticulously gathering evidence to bring a terrifying organization to justice - one that threatens humanity with technologically...
Author
Series
Jane Hawk volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk knows she's living on borrowed time. But as long as she's breathing, she'll never cease her one-woman war against the terrifying conspiracy that threatens the freedom - and free will - of millions. Battling the mysterious epidemic of murder-suicides that claimed Jane's husband has made Jane a wanted fugitive, hunted relentlessly by the secret cabal behind the plot. They are determined to see her dead - or make her wish she...
Author
Series
Jane Hawk volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk is on the trail of the members of a murderous organisation who drove her husband - and scores of other fine individuals - to commit suicide for no explicable reason. After discovering their plan to subjugate the world by means of an insidious new technology, she has been hunting them down one by one. Now she is America's most wanted fugitive, and the organisation is closing in on her beloved five-year-old son, whom she sent...
16) Saint Odd
Author
Series
Odd Thomas volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The future is haunting Odd Thomas. The carnival has returned to Pico Mundo, the same one that came to town when Odd was just 16. Odd is drawn to an arcade tent where he discovers Gypsy Mummy, the fortune-telling machine that told him that he and Stormy Llewellyn were destined to be together forever. But Stormy is dead and Pico Mundo is under threat once more. History seems to be repeating itself as Odd grapples with a satanic cult intent on bringing...
17) The city
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
There are millions of stories in the city - some magical, some tragic, others terror-filled or triumphant. Jonah Kirk's story is all of those things as he draws readers into his life in the city as a young boy, introducing his indomitable 'piano man' grandfather; his single mother, a beautiful, struggling singer; and the heroes, villains and everyday saints and sinners who make up the fabric of the metropolis in which they live - and who will change...
19) The big dark sky
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
As a girl, Joanna Chase thrived on Rustling Willows Ranch in Montana until tragedy upended her life. Now thirty-four and living in Santa Fe with only misty memories of the past, she begins to receive pleas-by phone, through her TV, in her dreams: I am in a dark place, Jojo. Please come and help me. Heeding the disturbing appeals, Joanna is compelled to return to Montana, and to a strange childhood companion she had long forgotten. She isn't the only...
20) After death
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished - including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he - or anyone else - has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honour his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son,...