Dean R Koontz
2) Velocity
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Bartender Billy Wiles thinks the note on his windshield threatening the murder of a schoolteacher if he ignores it or the murder of an elderly woman if he goes to the police is a hoax; but when a young teacher is killed and he receives other warnings, his life becomes a nightmare.
3) Lightning
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Terrifying troubles plague Laura's life though she prevails--often with the help of a stranger. On her thirtieth birthday, she learns the identity of this stranger.
4) Forever Odd
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A childhood friend of Odd Thomas has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to communicate with the dead to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror. Once again Odd will stand against our worst fears. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come,...
6) Saint Odd
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"Two years after the cataclysmic events that sent him journeying into mystery, Odd Thomas, the intrepid fry cook who sees the dead and tries to help them, has traveled full circle, back to his beloved home town of Pico Mundo and the people he loves. He has come to save them--and perhaps humanity--from the full flowering of evil it is his destiny to confront, as he draws ever closer to the truth of the world and his place in it. Stronger, wiser than...
7) The good guy
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Timothy Carrier is sitting in a bar when the man next to him mistakens him for someone else and hands him an envelope with $10,000. The man leaves after handing Tim a photo of a woman marked for death and her address. Soon the killer arrives believing Tim is the one who wants to hire him.
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Once the center of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse, the 1800s Gilded Age palace known as the Pendleton, has been re-christened in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building. But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, and elevators plunge into unknown depths.
9) The taking
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Bantam Books
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English
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Molly and Niel Sloan awake to see golden rain falling. In their remote California mountain town, they learn from their television of enormous waterspouts and blizzards around the globe; then, the television ceases, as do all other forms of communication with the outside world. The Sloans are left, together with their neighbors, in the midst of a purple fog, disturbed by a threat they cannot identify or understand. Together they discover that the world...
10) Brother Odd
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Odd Thomas is back. This time he's done something he never imagined he would do. He's left Pico Mundo and everyone he held dear to embrace the solitude and peace of an isolated monastery high in the western mountains. Now, even among the monks, he's managed to find himself in trouble. A killer is stalking the ancient, holy halls and Odd is about to confront an enemy more powerful than any he has yet encountered.
11) Odd hours
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Haunted by dreams of a powerful red tide, Odd Thomas, accompanied by two otherworldly sidekicks--his dog Boo and the Chairman of the Board--is drawn to a small California coastal town, where nothing is at it appears and where he confronts overwhelming and sinister forces out to stop his quest.
12) Deeply Odd
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Odd Thomas journeys through California and Nevada after a vision about the murders of three children, an effort throughout which he befriends a series of eccentric helpers who become allies in a battle against a sociopath and a network of killers.
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Police officer Kirby Wayland is on his way home late one day when he sees a stray dog along the highway and decides to shelter it. From that moment on, Kirby experiences a continuing strangeness about this canine. Man and dog quickly develop a bond, though there is always something very unsettling about it. Kirby takes a six-month leave from the force and decides to take a road trip. On the road, Kirby and the dog have a series of rapidly escalating...