Praise for Dean Koontz
#1 New York Times Bestseller
“Natalie Naudus narrates with the emotion required for a Koontz thriller in which danger lurks around every corner.… Naudus is at her best as she deftly balances the older woman's slightly deeper voice with the frightened teenager's higher pitch.” —AudioFile Magazine
“America’s most popular suspense novelist.” —Rolling Stone
“Koontz has always had near-Dickensian powers of description and an ability to yank us from one page to the next that few novelists can match.” —Los Angeles Times
“Tumbling, hallucinogenic prose.” —New York Times Book Review
“Dean Koontz is not just a master of our darkest dreams but also a literary juggler.” —The Times (London)
“Dean Koontz writes page-turners, middle-of-the-night-sneak-up-behind-you suspense thrillers. He touches our hearts and tingles our spines.” —Washington Post Book World
“Koontz has a knack for making the bizarre and uncanny seem as commonplace as a sunrise. Bottom line: the Dean of Suspense.” —People magazine
“Positively twitching with suspense. Another sure-fire hit from a thriller master.” —Booklist (starred review)
“If Stephen King is the Rolling Stones of novels, Koontz is the Beatles.” —Playboy
“A superb plotter and wordsmith. He chronicles the hopes and fears of our time in broad strokes and fine detail, using popular fiction to explore the human condition [and] demonstrating that the real horror of life is found not in monsters but within the human psyche.” —USA Today
“Far more than a genre writer. Characters and the search for meaning, exquisitely crafted, are the soul of his work. This is why his novels will be read long after the ghosts and monsters of most genre writers have been consigned to the attic. One of the master storytellers of this or any age.” —Tampa Tribune
“Dean Koontz almost occupies a genre of his own. He is a master at building suspense and holding the reader spellbound.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Demanding much of itself, Koontz’s style bleaches out clichés while showing a genius for details. He leaves his competitors buried in the dust.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Another A-plus thriller from a writer on a serious winning streak.” —Booklist (starred review)
Natalie Naudus narrates with the emotion required for a Koontz thriller in which danger lurks around every corner. Katie, an artist who is recoiling from a past loss, lives on an island. She soon learns that a neighboring island houses a government research operation, but what goes on there is a mystery. When she discovers agents snooping around her own island, she teams up with a girl who also wants to get to the bottom of what's going on. Naudus is at her best as she deftly balances the older woman's slightly deeper voice with the frightened teenager's higher pitch. The two make a good team. M.B. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine