Il suo nome è Trixie, Trixie Koontz. Tenera, affettuosa e parecchio esuberante, è impossibile non notarla nelle foto di famiglia: una biondina tutta pepe cui è difficile resistere, sempre al fianco del suo padrone. Autore di fama internazionale, sposato con Gerda, Dean ha trascorso per anni una tranquilla esistenza nella sua casa della California meridionale, soddisfatto del proprio ménage e del proprio lavoro. Ha sempre desiderato un cane, ma per un motivo o per l'altro non si è mai deciso a compiere il grande passo. Poi, un bel giorno, un'adorabile golden retriever fa il suo ingresso nella vita dei Koontz, e da quel momento tutto cambia. Trixie è il cane di un'associazione che presta assistenza ai disabili ma, dopo tre anni di onorato servizio, ha bisogno di una nuova sistemazione. Dean e Gerda la prendono con loro, ed è allora che, per la prima volta, Dean si rende davvero conto di quali meravigliosi mutamenti può causare un nuovo coinquilino a quattro zampe. Animata da un'incontenibile vitalità, sempre giocosa e spontanea, Trixie mette il cuore in tutto quello che fa, che si tratti di inseguire palle da tennis, di combinare qualche scherzo o di proteggere chi ama. E così, pian piano, grazie a lei Dean impara a fidarsi dei propri istinti, stabilisce finalmente di ridurre i propri impegni lavorativi per dedicarsi di più alle sue due 'donne di casa' e riscopre quel senso di meraviglia per la vita che ognuno di noi dovrebbe sempre avere.

Nemmeno Victor Helios, alias dottor Frankenstein, è in grado di fermare i mostri a cui lui stesso ha dato vita, anche se nel suo delirio di onnipotenza è convinto del contrario. L'unica speranza di salvezza è nelle mani di qualcuno che lo conosce letteralmente da secoli: oggi si fa chiamare Deucalion, ed è la sua prima creatura. Insieme alla coraggiosa Carson O'Connor e al protettivo Michael Maddison, due detective fin troppo umani, proverà a salvare la città di New Orleans dalla distruzione, scontrandosi con una cospirazione che affonda le sue radici nel passato. Peccato che la nuova stirpe perfezionata da Victor si sia infiltrata in ogni livello della società. Ormai sono tra noi, e non hanno intenzione di andarsene.

I am the One, the all and the only. I live in the Pendleton as surely as I live everywhere. I am the Pendleton's history and its destiny. The building is my place of conception, my monument, my killing ground. . . .
 
The Pendleton stands on the summit of Shadow Hill at the highest point of an old heartland city, a Gilded Age palace built in the late 1800s as a tycoon's dream home. Almost from the beginning, its grandeur has been scarred by episodes of  madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse. But since its rechristening in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building, the Pendleton has been at peace. For its fortunate residents—among them a successful songwriter and her young son, a disgraced ex-senator, a widowed attorney, and a driven money manager—the Pendleton's magnificent quarters are a sanctuary, its dark past all but forgotten.
 
But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, elevators plunge  into unknown depths. With each passing hour, a terrifying certainty grows: Whatever drove the Pendleton's past occupants to their unspeakable fates is at work again. Soon, all those within its boundaries will be engulfed by a dark tide from which few have escaped.
 
Dean Koontz transcends all expectations as he takes readers on a gripping journey to a place where nightmare visions become real—and where a group of singular individuals hold the key to humanity's destiny. Welcome to 77 Shadow Street.

In picturesque Moonlight Cove, California, inexplicable deaths occur and spine-tingling terror descends to this 'edge of paradise.' Growing numbers of residents harbor a secret so dark it is sure to cost even more lives.Tessa Lockland comes to town to probe her sister's seemingly unprompted suicide. Independent and clever, she meets up with Sam Booker, an undercover FBI agent sent to Moonlight Cove to discover the truth behind the mysterious deaths. They meet Harry Talbot, a wheelchair-bound veteran, who has seen things from his window that he was not meant to see. Together they begin to understand the depth of evil in Moonlight Cove. Chrissie Foster, a resourceful eleven-year-old, running from her parents who have suddenly changed and in whom darkness dwells, joins them. Together they make a stand against darkness and terror.

Twenty years after a serial killer murdered four families and was himself killed by the only surviving member of the final family, homicide detective John Calvino--the lone survivor of that killing spree--fears for the safety of his own family when someone recreates the murders of two decades ago.

#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!

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In a profound, funny, and beautifully rendered portrait of a beloved companion, bestselling novelist Dean Koontz remembers the golden retriever who changed his life. A retired service dog, Trixie was three when Dean and his wife, Gerda, welcomed her into their home. She was superbly trained, but her greatest gifts couldn't be taught: her keen intelligence, her innate joy, and an uncanny knack for living in the moment. Whether chasing a tennis ball or protecting those she loved, Trixie gave all she had to everything she did, inspiring Dean and Gerda to trust their instincts and recapture a sense of wonder that will remain with them always. Trixie lived fewer than twelve years; in this wide world, she was a little thing. But in every way that mattered, she lived a big life.

CBS Sunday Morning featured A Big Little Life in a rare interview with Dean Koontz that focuses on his philanthropic efforts with and affection for dogs. View it here: http://youtu.be/40bWUc6k_J8

In a reworking of Mary Shelley's novel, Detective Carson O'Connor and her partner, Michael Maddison, continue to delve into the life of Victor Helios, while Victor's 'New Race' begin to show they are not as perfect as Victor assumed.

Dean Koontz's enthralling Frankenstein series has redefined the classic legend of infernal ambition and harrowing retribution for a new century and a new age. Now the master of suspense delivers an unforgettable novel that is at once a thrilling adventure in itself and a mesmerizing conclusion to his saga of the modern monsters among us.
 
FRANKENSTEIN: THE DEAD TOWN
 
The war against humanity is raging. As the small town of Rainbow Falls, Montana, comes under siege, scattered survivors come together to weather the onslaught of the creatures set loose upon the world. As they ready for battle against overwhelming odds, they will learn the full scope of Victor Frankenstein's nihilistic plan to remake the future—and the terrifying reach of his shadowy, powerful supporters.

Now the good will make their last, best stand. In a climax that will shatter every expectation, their destinies and the fate of humanity hang in the balance.

Do you dare step through the red door?

Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldn't know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. Now he is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. He is in love with a woman he knows next to nothing about. And he is hiding from a past he can't fully remember. On his trail is a shadowy security agency that answers to no one--including the U.S. government—and a man who considers himself a compassionate Angel of Death. But worst of all, Spencer Grant is on a collision course with inner demons he thought he'd buried years ago—inner demons that could destroy him if his enemies don't first.

WHAT THE NIGHT KNOWS - KOONTZ DEAN - Harper UK

Ryan Perry ha il mondo in tasca: è un uomo di successo, possiede una villa faraonica, ha una bellissima fidanzata, Samantha, con cui sta per sposarsi, e tutta la vita davanti. O almeno così crede, fino al giorno in cui scopre di essere affetto da una malformazione cardiaca che gli lascia molto poco da vivere. Da quel momento la sua esistenza si riduce a una infinita serie di esami, visite, ricoveri in ospedale, che lo fanno sprofondare in una spirale sempre più cupa di angoscia e ossessioni. Solo quando si profila all'orizzonte la possibilità di un trapianto, Ryan sembra ritrovare un po' della speranza perduta. Ma non può immaginare che, una volta conclusa con successo l'operazione, nulla per lui sarà più come prima. Minacciose presenze che solo lui percepisce si insinuano nella sua vita, assediandolo nelle troppe stanze della sua villa; allucinazioni orribili lo perseguitano, e macabri oggetti compaiono dal nulla - un pendente a forma di cuore, un video cruento dell'organo pulsante - accompagnati da un messaggio di terrificante chiarezza: il tuo cuore mi appartiene. Da quel momento, il terrore si impadronisce di Ryan, finché tutte le sue paure prenderanno la forma fin troppo concreta di una sconosciuta dagli occhi a mandorla. Una donna che nasconde un'atroce verità, e che è più vicina al cuore di Ryan di quanto lui stesso possa immaginare...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz brings his fertile imagination and unparalleled storytelling abilities to one of the most timeless—and terrifying—creations in all of fiction: the legend of Frankenstein. In Lost Souls, Koontz puts a singular twist on this classic tale of ambition and science gone wrong and forges a new legend uniquely suited to our times—a story of revenge, redemption, and the razor-thin line that separates humanity from inhumanity as we consider a new invitation to apocalypse. 
 
The work of creation has begun again. Only now things will be different. Victor Leben, once Frankenstein, has not only seen the future—he's ready to populate it. Using stem cells, “organic” silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, he will engender a race of superhumans—the perfect melding of flesh and machine. With a powerful, enigmatic backer eager to see his dream come to fruition and a secret location where the enemies of progress can't find him, Victor is certain that this time, nothing and no one can stop him.

It is up to five people to prove him wrong. In their hands rests nothing less than the survival of humanity itself.

They are drawn together in different ways, by omens sinister and wondrous, to the same shattering conclusion: Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison; Victor's engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victor's first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewed—and tested—by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered. Yet in the midst of their peril, love will blossom, and joy, and they will discover sources of strength and perseverance they could not have imagined.

They will need all these resources, and more. For a monumental battle is about to commence that will require all their ingenuity and courage, as it defines what we are to be . . . and if we are to be at all.


From the Hardcover edition.

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 might be your own, in a war for their survival against an adversary more malevolent than any he has yet created, with their own home the battleground. Of all his acclaimed novels, none exceeds What the Night Knows in power, in chilling suspense, and in sheer mesmerizing storytelling.