Sunday, January 23, 2011

What the Night Knows

From : L.A. Time
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Book review: 'What the Night Knows' by Dean Koontz

Book review: 'What the Night Knows' by Dean Koontz

The author fails to explore the possibilities of a serial killer who may have returned from the grave.

Midway through Dean Koontz's new novel, "What the Night Knows," there's a scene that epitomizes everything the book could have been. Eight-year-old Minnie and her 11-year-old sister detect a recurrent shadow in the mirror mounted on their closet door. When they take down the mirror to examine it, Minnie grabs a handful of grapes and drops them one by one on the mirror's surface. And one by one they plunge straight through, leaving behind only a slow-expanding set of spectral rings on the mirror's glass. It's a quiet, chilling moment.

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