Publisher, Brilliance Audio (December 2010)

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“Dean Koontz . . . has the power to scare the daylights out of us.” —People

“Koontz seems to know us, our deepest foibles and fears.” —USA Today

“Koontz writes first-rate suspense, scary and stylish.” —Los Angeles Times

“A master at spinning dark tales . . . Koontz knows how to dial up the terror.” —Associated Press

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, 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 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 a 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.

About the Author: The books of Dean Koontz are published in 38 languages, and worldwide sales top 400 million copies. Eleven of his novels have risen to number one on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list, and several have been adapted into feature films and TV miniseries. Dean and Gerda Koontz live in southern California with their golden retriever, Anna, grand-niece of the famous and beloved Trixie.

About the Performer: Steven Weber has starred in several television series such as "Wings", "Once and Again", and "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip". On Broadway he appeared in "The Real Thing" and "The Producers", and starred in London in the Old Vic production of "National Anthems". His various films include "Hamburger Hill", "The Shining", "Timecode 2000," "Leaving Las Vegas”, "Single White Female," "Reefer Madness" and "Jeffrey".