What the Night Knows (with Bonus Novella Darkness Under the Sun) : A Novel

The evil that men do lives after them. The stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of Velocity and Breathless.Billy Lucas confesses to a shocking crime. He's only fourteen years old buthe's a sadistic killer and proud of it. He's in the secure wing of thestate hospital but ... he seems too wise for his age, not crazy, tooknowing. About the nature of evil, and whether it lives on beyond death. Too knowing about other crimes that took place before he was born ...Other murders from twenty years ago surface in the mind of DetectiveJohn Calvino as he interviews young Billy Lucas. Calvino carries away asigned confession ... and a sense of great danger. That night he feelsthat somehow Billy has come home with him, to his family. Over the nextweeks, this haunted feeling does not go away. It only gets worse. Thenanother killing spree happens, just as and when John Calvino dreaded itwould. Billy is safely locked away, but not the ghost, if the ghostexists, that links these murders with past crimes, and with JohnCalvino. Anything could happen, and surely will... again. In the late summer of a long ago year, a killer arrived in a small city. His name was Alton Turner Blackwood, and in the space of a few months he brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy. Half a continent away and two decades later, someone is murdering families again, recreating in detail Blackwood's crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino is certain that his own family--his wife and three children--will be targets in the fourth crime, just as his parents and sisters were victims on that distant night when he was fourteen and killed their slayer. As a detective, John is a man of reason who deals in cold facts. But an extraordinary experience convinces him that sometimes death is not a one-way journey, that sometimes the dead return. Here is ghost story like no other you have read. In the Calvinos, Dean Koontz brings to life a family that .. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the late summer of a long-ago year, Alton Turner Blackwood brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy. Half a continent away and two decades later, someone is murdering families again, re-creating in detail Blackwood’s crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino is certain that his own family—his wife and three children—will be targets, just as his parents and sisters were victims on that distant night when he was fourteen and killed their slayer. As a detective, John is a man of reason who deals in cold facts. But an extraordinary experience convinces him that sometimes death is not a one-way journey, that sometimes the dead return. Includes the bonus novella Darkness Under the Sun and an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City ! In the late summer of a long-ago year, Alton Turner Blackwood brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy. Half a continent away and two decades later, someone is murdering families again, re-creating in detail Blackwood's crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino is certain that his own family, his wife and three children, will be targets, just as his parents and sisters were victims on that distant night when he was fourteen and killed their slayer. As a detective, John is a man of reason who deals in cold facts. But an extraordinary experience convinces him that sometimes death is not a one-way journey, that sometimes the dead return. Includes the bonus novella?Darkness Under the Sun and an excerpt from Dean Koontz's Odd Apocalypse! After Detective John Calvino receives a signed confession to a shocking crime from 14-year-old Billy Lucas, he feels that somehow Billy has come home with him, to his family. Then another killing spree happens, just as and when John Calvino dreaded it would. Billy is safely locked away, but not the "ghost", if the ghost exists, that links these murders with past crimes, and with John Calvino. Anything could happen, and surely will-- again Als een rechercheur wordt geconfronteerd met een 14-jarige jongen die zijn ouders, zus en grootmoeder heeft vermoord, lijkt zijn eigen verleden weer tot leven te komen omdat ook zijn ouders en zus werden vermoord toen hij 14 was.