Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz is writer, whose books have been published in 38 languages. Dean Koontz’s page-turning novels are full of suspense and blend numerous genres such as horror, science fiction, mystery and satire. A number of books have appeared on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list including One Door Away From Heaven, From The Corner Of His Eye, Midnight, Cold Fire, The Bad Place, Hideaway, Dragon Tears, Intensity, Sole Survivor, and The Husband.

A typical Dean Koontz novel is highly moralised with some characters repeated in more than one story and a distinct plot structure. Surprisingly, before he introduced Mike Tucker, an art dealer and professional thief in the ‘Black Bat Mystery’ series, he never repeated his characters. Mike Tucker also featured in novels such as Blood Risk, Surrounded and The Wall of Masks. After Mike, it was Christopher Snow, who appeared in the Moonlight Bay Trilogy, Fear Nothing, Seize the Night and in a yet to be released ‘Ride the Storm’. Recently, three of Dean Koontz’s novels feature Odd Thomas, also known as ‘Odd Brother’ or ‘Forever Odd’. The protagonist of the novel is usually a smart, beautiful and intelligent female with a probable abusive upbringing. Moreover, most of his novels have a ‘happy-ending’. He has also modernised the work of ‘Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein’. Dean Koontz’s novels have sold more than 325,000, copies.