What the Night Knows
By Dean Koontz
What the Night Knows is Dean Koontz's latest paranormal thriller I've read.
A serial killer, a fourteen-year-old boy, turns himself into the police for the brutal murder of his family. But is he truly guilty? Detective John Calvino wonders because twenty years ago he was the lone survivor of a similar serial killer. At the state hospital, he interviews him. The words and actions are hardly those of a boy. Yes, his hand was used, and although the detective’s theory is impossible, the boy is just as much a victim.
His suspect? It’s impossible because Anton Turner Blackwood is dead. Detective Calvino should know. He shot him point blank. Watched the blood like his life drain from his carcass twenty years ago. But now he has reasons to suspect that the things that go bump in his house are not sounds of his house settling, but are supernatural. The killer's spirit is loose and is no longer confined to hell. Working on the detective’s three children, he invades their dreams and sets in motion the means to fulfilling his threat. How can he triumph when the killer can be everywhere and can’t stop and kill when that someone is already dead?
In What the Night Knows, suspense and suspicions immediately arise. Mr. Koontz has a talent for twisting words into emotions so that even when I became bored by the novel’s slow pace and lack of action, I kept me turning the pages to read what happened next. However I can think of many other great novels Mr. Koontz has written that I would rather read again.
By Dean Koontz
What the Night Knows is Dean Koontz's latest paranormal thriller I've read.
A serial killer, a fourteen-year-old boy, turns himself into the police for the brutal murder of his family. But is he truly guilty? Detective John Calvino wonders because twenty years ago he was the lone survivor of a similar serial killer. At the state hospital, he interviews him. The words and actions are hardly those of a boy. Yes, his hand was used, and although the detective’s theory is impossible, the boy is just as much a victim.
His suspect? It’s impossible because Anton Turner Blackwood is dead. Detective Calvino should know. He shot him point blank. Watched the blood like his life drain from his carcass twenty years ago. But now he has reasons to suspect that the things that go bump in his house are not sounds of his house settling, but are supernatural. The killer's spirit is loose and is no longer confined to hell. Working on the detective’s three children, he invades their dreams and sets in motion the means to fulfilling his threat. How can he triumph when the killer can be everywhere and can’t stop and kill when that someone is already dead?
In What the Night Knows, suspense and suspicions immediately arise. Mr. Koontz has a talent for twisting words into emotions so that even when I became bored by the novel’s slow pace and lack of action, I kept me turning the pages to read what happened next. However I can think of many other great novels Mr. Koontz has written that I would rather read again.
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