New Books from Dean Koontz
Trixie Channels New Book Through Dean’s Computer
Trixie may have passed to the Other Side, but she has nevertheless written her third book, BLISS TO YOU, by reaching through the curtain between worlds and taking control of Dean’s computer. BLISS TO YOU shares Trixie’s eight steps to achieving bliss and will be released by Hyperion in September.
Brilliance Audio just wrapped a recording session with Trixie and will release the audio version of BLISS TO YOU in September, too.
BOOK OF COUNTED SORROWS: A Dangerous New Edition
This dangerous and infamous book—from which Dean often has quoted poetry in his novels and for which he has written an amusing history as the introduction – was published in a limited, signed and numbered edition of 1,250 by Charnel House in 2004. The price was $100. Subsequently, that edition has traded for $1,200 and more on the collector’s market. Dogged Press has recently issued a handsome 3,000 copy, regular hardcover edition (not signed), which sells for $30 plus postage and handling. It is available only through our Dean Koontz Web Store. Order soon, they’re almost gone!
IN ODD WE TRUST Manga On Sale Now!
Dean Koontz's bestselling Odd Thomas novels are about a fry cook called Odd who has a sixth sense that allows him to see and communicate with the dead. Odd often uses his gift to help the spirits who have died violent deaths to bring their killers to justice. As the fourth novel in the series debuted in May, Dean Koontz has been working with acclaimed manga artist Queenie Chan and our friends at Del Rey Manga to create IN ODD WE TRUST, a 180- page manga prequel that features the adventures of 19-year-old Odd as he helps the spirit of a young boy. . .and tracks down the villain who murdered him. With the same wit and voice of the novels, IN ODD WE TRUST is a great read for those who already love the novels, and a great introduction to the world of Odd for those who have yet to experience them.
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FRANKENSTEIN: PRODIGAL SON #1 Comic On Sale Now!
Dean Koontz's FRANKENSTEIN: PRODIGAL SON #1 will be available from Dabel Brothers Publishing this month at comic book stores everywhere. One of the continuing five issues in the series will be released each month through September. The Dabel Brothers are thrilled to retell Dean Koontz's chilling tale of Frankenstein in comic book form with the gorgeous illustrations of acclaimed artist Brett Booth and an adaptation by legendary comic book writer Chuck Dixon. "Dean Koontz's FRANKENSTEIN is already a huge bestseller as a novel because of its great story," Les Dabel said. "The comic book is going to continue that trend for certain -– people are going to want to pick this one up!"
Del Rey Books will then collect the first six issues of the comic in a hardcover edition later in the year.
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ODD HOURS debuts at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List!
Through tragedy and triumph, exhilaration and heartbreak, word of Odd Thomas's gifts filtered far beyond Pico Mundo, attracting unforgettable new friends—and enemies of implacable evil. With great gifts comes the responsibility to meet great challenges. But no mere human being was ever meant to face the darkness that now stalks the world--not even one as oddly special as Odd Thomas. Look for ODD HOURS in stores now!
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THE DARKEST EVENING OF THE YEAR in stores now!
Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. Among dog lovers, she's a legend for the risks she'll take to save an animal from abuse. Among her friends, Amy's heedless devotion is often cause for concern. To widower Brian McCarthy, whose commitment she can't allow herself to return, Amy's behavior is far more puzzling and hides a shattering secret. From its breathtaking opening scene to its shocking climax, THE DARKEST EVENING OF THE YEAR is Dean Koontz at his finest, a transcendent thriller certain to have readers turning pages until dawn.
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Read the first two chapters of THE DARKEST EVENING OF THE YEAR
BROTHER ODD Is Now in Paperback!
Now in three New York Times bestselling novels, Odd Thomas has established himself as one of the most beloved and unique fictional heroes of our time. Wielding all the power and magic of a master storyteller at the pinnacle of his craft, Dean Koontz follows Odd into a singular new world where he hopes to make a fresh beginning–but where he will meet an adversary as old and inexorable as time itself.
St. Bartholomew's Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of California's high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live fully again, and among the eccentric monks, their other guests, and the nuns and young students of the attached convent school, he has begun to find his way. The silent spirits of the dead who visited him in his earlier life are mercifully absent, save for the bell-ringing Brother Constantine and Odd's steady companion, the King of Rock 'n' Roll.
But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path in the form of the sinister bodachs he has met previously, the black shades who herald death and disaster, and who come late one December night to hover above the abbey's most precious charges. For Odd is about to face an enemy who eclipses any he has yet encountered, as he embarks on a journey of mystery, wonder, and sheer suspense that surpasses all that has come before.
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THE GOOD GUY in stores!
From the electrifying openings of his novels to their unforgettable conclusions, Dean Koontz draws readers into complex and fascinating worlds of suspense and wonder. THE GOOD GUY, published by Bantam in hardcover, weaves the timeless themes for which he is acclaimed into a breathtaking tale of an ordinary man pushed to the limit, in the ultimate battle against an adversary whose malice knows no bounds...
Tim Carrier is at the center of a mystery of extraordinary proportions, the one man who can save an innocent life and stop a killer far more powerful than any cop…and as relentless as evil incarnate. But first Tim must discover within himself the capacity for selflessness, endurance, and courage that can turn even an ordinary man into a hero, inner resources that will transform his idea of who he is and what it takes to be The Good Guy. To read more, Click here.
Read the first two chapters of THE GOOD GUY
THE HUSBAND Is Here. . .in Paperback!
What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill?
Dean’s #1 Bestselling book, THE HUSBAND is in paperback. With each and every new novel, Dean Koontz raises the stakes—and the pulse rate—higher than any other author. Now, in what may be his most suspenseful and heartfelt novel, he brings us the story of an ordinary man whose extraordinary commitment to his wife will take him on a harrowing journey of adventure, sacrifice, and redemption to the mystery of love itself-and to a showdown with the darkness that would destroy it forever.
We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he's standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare. To read more on THE HUSBAND, Click here.
FOREVER ODD
Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final page is turned. For such a character, one book is not enough — readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique young hero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal parts suspense and terror, adventure and mystery — and altogether irresistibly odd.
ODD THOMAS
"The dead don't talk. I don't know why." But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe it's a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and Odd's otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo's sympathetic police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it's different. A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world's worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Odd's deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15.
