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The Silent Corner

By: Dean Koontz
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
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Summary

"I very much need to be dead." 

These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for - but took his own life. In the aftermath, his widow, Jane Hawk, does what all her grief, fear, and fury demand: find the truth, no matter what. 

People of talent and accomplishment, people admired and happy and sound of mind, have been committing suicide in surprising numbers. When Jane seeks to learn why, she becomes the most-wanted fugitive in America. Her powerful enemies are protecting a secret so important - so terrifying - that they will exterminate anyone in their way.

But all their power and viciousness may not be enough to stop a woman as clever as they are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless - and who is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

©2017 Dean Koontz (P)2017 Recorded Books Inc

Critic reviews

"Dean Koontz is not just a master of our darkest dreams, but also a literary juggler." ( The Times)
"Psychologically complex, masterly and satisfying." ( The New York Times)

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  • 02-05-18

Finally fantastic!

Having been a massive Koontz fan for years, I had been so disappointed with his last few novels that I had practically given up on him.
As this book had good reviews I decided to give it a go and I’m so glad I did! The book is fast paced with good characters and an almost (well, you never know) believable plot!
The narrator is ok but it did go to check my phone a few times because of the ridiculous long pauses between chapters but the story makes up for that!
Definitely worth it!!!!

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Not a Great Recording!

The recording of this audio book is quite poor, with noise distortion, which took me quite a while to ignore. It continued throughout the book, with some bits being loud, some bits quiet and a constant, irritating background sound all the time the narrator talks.

I also couldn’t get over the silly voices when the narrator changed it for characters. I’ve listened to many audio books and this one was not the best. The story overall was good, if you can ignore the bad recording and cringe-worthy voices!

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Interesting but not gripping

An enjoyable story but not gripping in the way that many Dean Koontz books have been. The plot needed more depth, twists and turns. Left me feeling a little disappointed.

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Not Koontz finest work

I struggled to finish this.....and it had a most unsatisfactory ending. Main character was 2 dimensional and no woman/mother would have reacted the way she did. It is hard to explain without spoilers so I won't elaborate. If the “left in mid air“ ending to the book is to leave it open for a second book I won't bother to read it....but my opinion is the sloppy ending is due to this story going nowhere! I recommend you read any other Dean Koontz book than this one. The narrator did a good job.

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really enjoyed this book until it ended.

was enjoying the book and then to.my surprise.it ended. dont.want to.spoil.it for others but its.not the kind of ending I like. even looked.to see if there was a sequel. usually like.dean.koontz but this.left.me.disappointed.

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Disappointed in the quality of the story

Really disappointed in the flow of the story and how she made the discoveries along the way. Needed too big a leaps of faith as the story unravelled. Might give book 2 a chance but if that's the same I won't be reading the series

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  • 18-10-18

The Silent Corner

I am very disappointed. Parts of the story are fine and even moved me. However, most of the narrative seems to be filler - just a way to link incident to incident. I had been hoping to find a new author to enjoy. Sigh.

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Another good book from Dean

Not my favourite genre of Dean's if I'm honest but he still puts out a good read (or listen in this case)...I prefer him doing the supernatural (Odd Thomas is the best series ever), but I am still looking forward to seeing Jane Hawk develop...

The Silent Corner is a good solid introduction to Jane that should make most readers look forward to the next installment...

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..chef jfv j. c the same thing happened

any other than being able to not only have to come back to 7AM and

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Why did I stray from paperbacks?!?!

Great story from Mr Koontz virtually ruined by the clipped narration, for example I was 3 chapters in before I realised the main characters name was “Jane” and not “Ane”! This clipped narration continues throughout the story. Couple this with odd pronunciation and you find yourself at times going backwards to try and understand what was said, for example the fire arm pronunciation “Heckler & Koch” is pronounced “Heckler and Coke”! Of course I realise this is probably my personal preference but I have never heard it pronounced as such anywhere else! But if this wasn’t bad enough the chapter numbers were at odds with the narration making tracking your place a nightmare. WIFI warnings were aplenty despite the icon always being visible. I could go on but it’s fair to say it’s further technical and recording problems were noticeable throughout! I’m trying to download one more book to give it one last chance and if it’s not 3 or more stars I’m going back to paperbacks.......sadly!!!

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