Previously, my worst struggles with a story had come in the first two-thirds, and the final third had been, if not a sweet swift toboggan run, at least a sleigh ride. Nothing like this had ever happened to me. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, I worked 12-hour days, trying to identify the source of my doubt, but couldn't specify it to my satisfaction. The action worked, the characters were in character, the mood was sustained.but something felt wrong with it, some fine point of the villain's motivation. I withheld the last fifty pages for another four days, causing a quiet panic in those at my publishing house who are responsible for meeting production deadlines.Īlthough the book was done, I felt that something was wrong with Chapter 63. When that date rolled around for this book, I had written everything, but I was unwilling to send all of it to my editor. I arrived at one of those joyful yet excruciating moments while working on The Darkest Evening of the Year.īecause I am obsessive about the revision of each page-the word fussbudget is embarrassingly apt when I am brooding over whether to use a comma or a semicolon-I have more than once held on to a manuscript until the drop-dead date for delivery. I once said writing a novel is sometimes like making love and sometimes like having a tooth pulled-and sometimes like making love while having a tooth pulled. The Darkest Ice Cream of the Year by Dean Koontz Pick up a Dean Koontz thriller and you can't put it down: try one

Unable to turn to any authority, Amy and Brian are pressed to the edge of a precipice as Koontz's most emotionally devastating thriller races with inexorable speed to a wrenching climax.

At last Amy understands her need of Brian, and a lot more from her troubled past that has been hidden by her passion. But if Greeley is the culprit, it's clear he's not working alone. Amy believes her attacker is Wes Greeley, just released after an eighteen-month stretch, thanks to Amy's testimony, for egregious animal cruelty.

Subtle intrusions escalate into terrifying assaults on everything she holds dear. But everything is due to change in the Redwing household. Riding shotgun nervously is her friend and lover, Brian, an architect who would marry her if only she were not so committed to these crazy ! heroics! He blames her work for her refusal to marry him. Dogs always do their best, and so will she. When she confronts a violent drunk in order to rescue Nickie, a beautiful golden retriever, Amy has no misgivings.

(A fast-paced and emotionally devastating suspense novel from the bestselling author of Velocity,The Husband and The Good Guy Amy Redwing recklessly risks everything in her chosen field of dog rescue.

Dean koontz the darkest evening