In the later summer of the long-ago year, a killer arrived in a small city. His name was Alton Turner Blackwood, and in the space of a couple of months he brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only once he himself was killed by the last survivor from the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy. Half a continent apart and 2 decades later, someone is definitely murdering households again, re-creating in detail Blackwood’s crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino is for certain that his personal family members – his wife in what the Night Knows and three kids – will become targets in the 4th crime, just like his parents and sisters were victims on that distant night time when he was fourteen and killed their slayer. Like a detective, John is usually a man of reason who offers in cold details. But an extraordinary knowledge convinces him that sometimes death is not a one-way trip, that occasionally the dead come back. Here is a ghost story like no other you have browse. In the Calvinos, Dean Koontz provides to life a family that might be your personal, in a battle for their survival against an adversary more malevolent than any he provides yet created, using their own home the battleground. Of all his acclaimed books, none surpasses What the night time Understands in power, in chilling suspense, and in sheer mesmerizing storytelling. “Dean Koontz . has the power to scare the daylights out of us.” -People “Koontz seems to know us, our deepest foibles and fears.” -USA Today “Koontz writes first-rate suspense, frightening and stylish.” -Los Angeles Moments “A professional at rotating dark stories . . . Koontz knows how exactly to dial in the terror.” -Associated Press