What the night knows

Resource Information

The work What the night knows represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

What the night knows

Statement of responsibility

Dean Koontz

Creator

• Koontz, Dean R., (Dean Ray), 1945-

Contributor

• Weber, Steven

Author

• Koontz, Dean R., (Dean Ray), 1945-

Subject

• Serial murder investigation -- Fiction
• Serial murderers -- Fiction
• Serial murders -- Fiction
• Talking books
• Ghost stories
• Mentally ill offenders -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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, recreating 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

PerformerNote

Read by Steven Weber