romantic suspense a la koontz
i have been reading dean koontz's novels way back in college. my friend rona let me read her book -- Icebound. it got me hooked, i couldn't put it down. i don't know, maybe she got tired of seeing me read christopher pike or r.l. stine books. i was asking her if she can suggest a new author. so she let me borrow her book, and i remember borrowing another koontz book from her -- Shadowfires. since then, i got hooked up into koontz's writings.
i'm not into romance novels, not that they can get too mushy (i understand love by all means), but maybe i get too bored, knowing i can predict how the story would end eventually. maybe that's why i read suspense or horror novels more, because the plot can get unpredictable and twisted.
i came upon this page and i was surprised to find out that one koontz novel -- False Memory -- i've read isn't listed here, though it fits the description.
so here are the books enumerated for koontz's romantic suspense creations...
disclaimer: i copied & pasted the descriptions from the site. ^^,
ODD THOMAS, who sees dead people, thinks
of himself as an ordinary guy, even if possessed of a certain measure
of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most
beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift,
maybe it's a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his
best by the silent souls who seek him out. Odd Thomas is sure to win a
special place reader’s hearts and minds.
i have started reading this before, during the time the film Constantine was shown, but i still haven't finished it yet until now, but will be.
THE GOOD GUY is Tim Carrier, just a regular guy caught in the center of a mystery of extraordinary proportions. He’s the one man who can save an innocent life and stop a killer far more powerful than any cop…and as relentless as evil incarnate. But first Tim must discover within himself the capacity for selflessness, endurance, love and courage that can turn even an ordinary man into a hero.
THE HUSBAND brings us the story of an ordinary man whose extraordinary commitment to his wife will take him on a harrowing journey of adventure, sacrifice, and redemption to the mystery of love itself-and to a showdown with the darkness that would destroy it forever. What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill?
WATCHERS is an explosive story of a man and a woman, caught in a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation… a fable about love and trust…imaginative and unusual…a Koontz classic!
DARK RIVERS OF THE HEART – What draws Spencer Grant to step through the red door…to fall in love with a woman he knows nothing about…to face inner demons he thought he’d buried years ago?
LIGHTNING strikes twice when a mysterious blond -haired stranger appears out of nowhere to save Laura- first at her birth, then as an adult… Is he a guardian angel, the devil in disguise, or the master of a haunting destiny beyond time and space?
TICK TOCK. The deadline is dawn and Tommy Phan must figure out the message on his computer or his life will be suddenly destroyed. His only ally is a beautiful, strangely intuitive waitress he meets by chance or by a design beyond his comprehension.
LIFE EXPECTANCY — On the day Jimmy Tock, a pastry chef in a Colorado resort town, was born, Jimmy's dying grandfather predicted five future dates that would be terrible for Jimmy. That same day, a bitter, deranged circus clown committed multiple murders in the hospital. Twenty years later, when the vengeful son of that clown takes Jimmy and a beautiful young woman, Lorrie Hicks, hostage in the local library, Jimmy falls in love. He and Lorrie survive and marry, but will they survive the four subsequent terrible days?
COLD FIRE — In Portland, he saved a young boy from a drunk driver. In Boston, he rescued a child from an underground explosion. In Houston, he disarmed a man who was trying to shoot his own wife. Reporter Holly Thorne was intrigued by this strange quiet savior named Jim Ironheart. She was even falling in love with him. But what power compelled an ordinary man to save twelve lives in three months? What visions haunted his dreams? And why did he whisper in his sleep: There is an Enemy. It is coming. It’ll kill us all…?
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I've got one (at least) that might interest you. It's by Danish writer Peter Høeg. It's called Smilla's Sense of Snow.
It's a mystery and detective type story of Smilla, who is half Inuit (from Greenland, a former Danish colony) finds that a little Intuit neighbor boy's "accidental" death couldn't have happened the that that the police said it did. There are powerful interests trying to block the truth from being revealed... This book is good and exciting on so many levels!
It was later made into a movie starring Julia Ormond, Jim Broadbent, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris, Jürgen Vogel, Mario Adorf and Tom Wilkinson, directed by Bille August. I didn't think that it was a good as the book, but often that is the case, isn't it?
that's a good suggestion... i'll look for it one of these days. ^^,
And hope you get to read Smilla sometime too... ^^
It is also called Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow in some parts of the world... I think you will like it. I wish that I could discover a book that would enjoy as much as I did Smilla... Don't get me wrong. I like a lot of books. But that one was special for me. :)