The Door to December
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.47 (597 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143142291 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 199 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Reissued.. FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY
Mr. Dean Koontz was born in Everett, Pennsylvania, and grew up in nearby Bedford. . He won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition when he was twenty and has been writing ever since. Koontz's books are published in 38 languages. Dean and his wife, Gerda, live in southern California. Worldwide sales total more than 17
Koontz at his best This is one of Koontz' earlier novels and it is full of the same fire and excitement as those early books. Melanie is a nine-year-old girl who was abducted by her own father when she was three. She had been used by her father and his associates for psychological research particularly into the realm of the unconscious. The men with her father have been brutally killed and her mother Janet, a detective, Dan Haldane and Earl, from a security agency are doing their best to keep the girl from encountering the same fate. She is autistic-like because of what was done to her and her mother, a ch. "Not my favourite, but passable" according to Irishwend. I don't often write reviews for books, unless I feel strongly about them. This falls into that category. I enjoyed it for the most part, however, when the homicide detective starts to realise who is responsible for all the brutal deaths, which is actually some time after the reader might have the same suspicion, we are asked to accept that the wonderful psychiatrist Mom, who married the monster husband, is also completely unable to figure out what is going on? I'm sorry, the woman is educated, with a successful practise, yet cannot figure out what I, a mostly uneducated reader, was able . lbh said Great read and thrilling ride!. I read Door to December years ago when it was published under one of the Koontz pseudonyms, but I downloaded it to my kindle for a re-read. This is an incredible story. Fast paced and thrilling. It kept me captivated to the last page even though I had read it before! It grabs you from the beginning. It starts with the police finding a horrendous murder of several men in a house on a quiet suburban street. The men are literally crushed and unrecognizable, but they also find a "gray" room. A room painted completely gray with a large sensory deprivation tank and a chair that looks like an e
. From Publishers Weekly Published pseudonymously in 1985, Koontz has revised this thriller portraying a pediatric psychiatrist's attempts to unravel the mental trauma suffered by her estranged nine-year-old daughter. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc