Pub: Ballantine
Price: $6.99
Notes: (revised and expanded version) originally published in 1976 as Prison of Ice under the name David Axton
Dean Koontz - Long Fiction - 1995/96
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Icebound
Pub: Ballantine |
| "A group of scientists drill bombs into the Antarctic in order to blow a chunk of ice out and let it travel away for scientific reasons and experiments. But, an unexpected disaster occurs and soon the scientists find themselves stranded on an Iceberg with bombs planted beneath them ready to explode. While they struggle to find a way out of this impending danger, a Russian Submarine patrolling the area decides to rescue them. Soon, one of the scientists is attacked from behind and brutally murdered, and it becomes clear that there is a psychopathic killer amongst them." | |
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The Key to Midnight
Pub: Berkley |
| "Joanna Rand left America almost ten years ago to become a singer in a Japanese nightclub. Still, she could never escape the strange dream that haunted her night after night: a single, disturbing image of a man with steel fingers, reaching for a hypodermic syringe. When she awoke, she felt violated, used - and terrified. Alex Hunter desperately wanted to help this beautiful, fascinating woman. He knew he had seen Joanna before - in news photographs of a senator's daughter who'd disappeared ten years ago. Slowly, tenderly, he helped awaken her to a terrifying fact: that she was not who she thought she was...that her mind, her memories, had been created for her...And there was only one way to unlock the dark secret of her soul..." | |
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The Eyes of Darkness
Pub: Berkley |
| "A year has passed since little Danny's death-a year since his mother began the painful process of acceptance. But tonight, Tina Evans swore she saw her Danny in a stranger's car. Then she dreamed that Danny was alive. And when she awoke, she found a message waiting for her in Danny's bedroom - two disturbing words scrawled on his chalkboard: NOT DEAD. Was it someone's grim joke? Her mind playing tricks on her? Or something...more? For Tina Evans, it was a mystery she couldn't escape. An obsession that would lead her from the bright lights of Las Vegas to the cold shadows of the High Sierras. A terrible secret seen only by...the Eyes of Darkness." | |
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Intensity
Pub: Knopf |
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My synopsis: Chyna Shepherd has a tormented past. She walked out on her mother, a junkie with a record of evil specimens as boyfriends, when she was sixteen. Now she studies psychology and she's going to spend a tranquil week-end with her friend Laura's family in Napa Valley. Yet she's about to experience a sudden, dangerous nosedive in a night of sheer terror, as she happens to be in the hunting territory of a vicious sociopath, a ruthless psycho who breaks into the house where she's hosted to massacre everyone he finds. Edgler Vess is a self-proclaimed "homicidal adventurer", who believes he's in such a deep communion with every living thing that he can draw upon their vital force in the very moment of their death. Chyna comes unscathed out of the mayhem but finds herself tangled in a web of intricate and terrifying situations as she stalks (or is stalked by?!) the killer through the whole night. She'll spend the following 36 hours in a pulse-pounding hide-and-seek in which her courage, hardened by a childhood of loathsome violences, will be her only lifeline. |
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Santa's Twin
Pub: Harper Prism |
| My synopsis: Charlotte and Emily are two little sisters, whose Christmas becomes more adventurous than they could have ever thought. They're on a mission, in fact, when they discover that Santa Claus is held captive by his evil, mentally deranged twin, Bob Claus (just take a look at the front cover, folks). Charming and heartwarming, their quest will take them right to the North Pole, in order to save the holyday season and its legendary icon. | |