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Uma busca por um filho desaparecido... E um mistério tóxico que ameaça o mundo! Um ano se passou desde a morte do pequeno Danny. Um ano desde que sua mãe iniciou o doloroso processo de aceitação. Mas Tina Evans poderia jurar que acabou de vê-lo dentro do carro de um estranho.

In one of the most dazzling books of his celebrated career, Dean Koontz delivers a masterwork of page-turning suspense that surpasses even his own inimitable reputation as a chronicler of our worst fears—and best dreams. In The Taking he tells the story of a community cut off from a world under siege, and the terrifying battle for survival waged by a young couple and their neighbors as familiar streets become fog-shrouded death traps.

Michelina Bellsong is on a mission. She is following a missing family to the edge of America . . . to a place she never knew existed—a place of terror, wonder, and shattering revelation. What awaits her there will change her life and the life of everyone she knows—if she can find the key to survival. At stake are a young girl of extraordinary goodness, a young boy with killers on his trail, and Micky’s own wounded soul. Ahead lie incredible peril, startling discoveries, and paths that lead through terrible darkness to unexpected light.

A call in the middle of the night summoned psychiatrist Laura McCaffrey out into the rain-swept streets of Los Angeles. The police had found her husband—beaten to death. But what of her daughter, Melanie, whom he had kidnapped six years earlier? At the brutal murder scene, the police lead Laura into her husband's makeshift lab—and open the door to a rising tide of terror that has trapped Melanie in its midst...

For Odd Thomas kan se de døde. Nærmere bestemt dem, der selv i døden har uafklarede forhold i denne verden, der gør, at de ikke kan komme videre til den næste. Da en fremmed med en enorm appetit og en hud så blev som pizzadej en dag tropper op på grillen, går der et gys igennem Odd. Odd døber ham Svampemanden, og han er ikke et øjeblik i tvivl om, at den fremmedes besøg i Pico Mundo vil udvikle sig til et sandt mareridt.

En uforklarlig skygge er gledet ind over den lille californiske bjergby, og på få minutter er alle byens indbyggere døde. Kun Jenny Paige og hendes lillesøster er på mirakuløs vis overlevet. Da byens læge vender hjem fra ferie, mødes hun af det grusomme syn, og nu starter en kamp for at finde ud af, hvad der er sket, og for at forhindre, at flere dør.

Laura bliver født under en voldsom tordenstorm, og hendes mor dør i barselssengen. Dette bliver blot den første ulykkelige episode i Lauras liv, der igen og igen bliver afbrudt af voldsomme og uhyggelige oplevelser. Men hver gang det er ved at gå galt for hende, dukker den samme lyshårede mand op og afværger katastrofen i sidste øjeblik.

Van de één op de andere dag verliest onderzoeksjournalist Joe Carpenter zijn vrouw en twee dochters door een vliegtuigongeluk. Na een jaar intens verdriet en een moeilijk rouwproces komt Joe een vrouw tegen die zegt de vliegtuigramp te hebben overleefd. Wanneer hij diep verstrikt raakt in zijn onderzoek, komt hij tot een ontdekking die hij nooit van zijn leven had kunnen voorspellen...

Katie lebt allein und fernab der Zivilisation in einem festungsartigen Steinhaus auf der abgelegenen Insel Jacob's Ladder. Einst war sie ein aufstrebender Star in der Kunstwelt – jetzt findet sie nur noch Trost in der Malerei. Auf der Nachbarinsel gibt es ein geheimnisvolles Forschungszentrum der Regierung. Von dort kommen eines Tages zwei Agenten, auf der Suche nach etwas, über das sie nicht sprechen wollen. Katie spürt, dass eine große Bedrohung die Insel heimsucht, die so seltsam ist, dass sogar die dort lebenden Tiere in tödliche Panik geraten.

The human “oddities” in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the gawking rubes had been promised. But Alida is something else. The real thing. Traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to speakeasies, Alida is resigned to an exploited and lonely life on the road as the museum’s golden ticket. Until she’s rescued by two compassionate strangers. Franklin and Loretta Fairchild see in Alida a gifted and uncannily well-read girl in need of a loving touch and a family. With the openhearted couple and their three precociously imaginative children, Alida finds it.

Addison lebt in den Tunneln unter der Stadt, weil die Leute bei seinem Anblick durchdrehen. Wenn du ihn ansiehst, verlierst du die Kontrolle und du willst ihn töten, vernichten. Gwyneth ist schön, aber sie kann es nicht ertragen, dass jemand sie berührt. Beide streifen nur im Schutz der Nacht durch die Stadt, und so kreuzen sich ihre Wege.

As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable friends in the idyllic town of Maple Grove. Three left to pursue lofty dreams—and achieved them. Only Ernie never left. When he falls into a coma, his three amigos feel an urgent need to return home. Don’t they remember people lapsing into comas back then? And those people always awoke…didn’t they?

Raised in the wilderness by her late great-uncle, Vida is a young woman with an almost preternatural affinity for nature, especially for the wolves that also call the forested mountains home. Formed by hard experience, by love and loss, and by the prophecies of a fortuneteller, Vida just wants peace. If only nearby Kettleton County didn’t cast such a dark shadow.

Benny Catspaw’s perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He’s not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn’t know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he’s never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time.

Hangt er een vloek over Jimmy’s leven? Het begint op de dag van zijn geboorte, tevens de sterfdag van zijn grootvader. Vlak voor zijn overlijden heeft de grootvader een angstaanjagend visioen over hem: Hij zal tussen zijn twintigste en dertigste levensjaren vijf gruwelijke dingen meemaken. Het zullen de medicijnen wel zijn, denkt zijn vader. Maar wanneer hij op zijn sterfbed opmerkelijke details over Jimmy’s geboorte weet te voorspellen, hangt er plotseling een duistere wolk boven het kersverse gezin. Wat voor onheil staat Jimmy te wachten?

Wanneer wordt Billy wakker uit deze angstaanjagende nachtmerrie? De jonge barman moet de harde werkelijkheid onder ogen zien wanneer hij een briefje krijgt van een onbekende met de volgende boodschap: "Als je dit briefje niet naar de politie brengt en die erbij betrekt, dood ik een lieftallige blonde onderwijzeres.

No one could understand why Colin and Roy were best friends. Colin was so shy; Roy was so popular. Colin was fascinated by Roy - and Roy was fascinated by death. Then one day, Roy asked his timid friend: “You ever killed anything?” From that moment on, the two were bound together in a game too terrifying to imagine - and too irresistible to stop.

Evie and her daughter, Asteria, are fleeing an abusive cult when they meet a stranger in an abandoned Arizona shopping mall. Fate hasn’t set Nameless on their trail. It’s a premonition, and a chance to make reparations for a failure from his past he can’t even remember. This time, Nameless must do everything in his power not to fail those who trust him with their lives.

Un enfant et un chien peuvent-ils sauver l'humanité ? Woody, 11 ans, est autiste et doué pour la télépathie. Avec l'aide de Kipp, un golden retriever lui aussi doté d'une intelligence supérieure, il tente de déjouer les plans d'un tueur génétiquement modifié et de ceux qui ont créé ce monstre. Le nouveau suspense de Dean Koontz, auteur n°1 des ventes du New York Times. Un enfant qui peut sauver le monde. Un homme qui veut le détruire. Woody Bookman, 11 ans, n'a pas dit un mot depuis sa naissance. Pas même quand son père est mort dans un prétendu accident.

It seems straightforward enough: Get a foot in the door by posing as a potential investor in a lucrative underground business—then bring the place down from the inside. There’s more here than meets the eye. What it triggers in Nameless is uncontrollable rage and brutal retribution. What it reveals is a clue to his forgotten past. Is it a breach on his handler’s part? Or a test? Either way, something’s not right.