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  • By: Dean Koontz
  • Narrated by: Steven Weber
  • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (53 ratings)

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What the Night Knows

By: Dean Koontz
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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. 

©2010 Dean Koontz (P)2010 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Critic Reviews

“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)

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Awesome!

I loved listening to this, many late nights, I found it very hard to turn off!!

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Really good listen!!!

I really enjoyed listening to this story. Once again a great book by Dean Koontz. Wonderful narration, great characters and awesome story over all. 10/10 from me. Highly recommended!!!

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Fast moving

I really enjoyed this book and the pace. Narrator was fabulous and kept the excitement at all time high.
I love Dean Koontz’s books and have followed him for many many years

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What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz

I really enjoyed this book Thank you Dean Koontz Thank you Steven Weber I very much appreciate yous both 💜💜💜💜💜

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The reader does an AMAZING job!

Steven Weber needs to read more books! We picked this book on the fact that he read it only... and we’re not disappointed.
We are not fans of Dean Koontz and have listened to many of his books :)

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Predictable, shallow characters

This is my first (and likely last) Dean Koontz novel, the characters had no life to them and the relationships relied heavily on long monologues about how much they loved one another whilst rarely interacting. The children characters themselves were written so unbelievably it was astounding. A scene had set a family of 5 at dinner talking about roman architecture, the author expected me to believe that two children and a teen had any type of passing knowledge on the subject. Has Dean ever been a child or did he grow in a pod and one day immerge as a fully grown human with a knowledge of all things art?

Steven Weber - Narrator did an amazing job as always.

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