The Key to Midnight | Dean Koontz

The Key to Midnight | Dean Koontz | Excellent Story Line

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The Key to Midnight

	The Key to Midnight Dean Koontz Berkley, 1995 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 33 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

In a novel previously published under the best-selling author's pseudonym, Leigh Nichols, an American owner of a Japanese nightclub meets a fellow expatriate who helps her uncover the terrible truth about her real identity. Reprint.

A Great Mystery!

Joanna and Alex are a great couple of characters. They spring to life! The backdrop of Japan, with Joanna being a club owner makes for a very dark, mysterious, but not quite seedy existence. The story is suspenseful and the resolution is not one you're going to see coming.

Edge of your seat suspense with a very interesting mystery. I've been known to skip a page or two here and there. I don't recall skipping any part of this book. I remember quite vividly hanging on every word!

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Excellent Story Line

Dean Koontz in this story keeps the reader riveted to the twists and turns of the characters. Class Act writing as always, even in this period of his career.

One of Koontz' Best Early Novels

Back in the 1970s and early 1980s, Dean Koontz was a struggling writer of paperback novels. In order to make a living, he wrote under a variety of names that was not his own. Koontz's most successful pseudonym was "Leigh Nichols" -- under this name, he wrote five bestselling romantic suspense novels. THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT is the first of these books, and was re-released in the 1990s under Koontz' own name.

THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT is a highly enjoyable romantic thriller. It mainly takes place in Japan, and Koontz does a great job of describing Japanese culture, which he obviously has a lot of respect for. The two main characters are likable and complex, and the plot is fast-paced and interesting.

This is not a horror novel at all, although there are a few graphic violent and sexual scenes. Still, there is very little in this book that is truly gross or disturbing.

THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT isn't a masterpiece, but it's a fine entertainment by one the best genre writers working today. This book is easy to read and is a nice way to spend an afternoon. If you're looking for classic Koontz, though, my advice is to try one of his later novels, such as WATCHERS, LIGHTNING, INTENSITY or ODD THOMAS.

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New to Koontz

I have only been reading DK for about three year now. So I am more familiar with his newer work. I have been trying to read the old stuff and this was pretty good. I thought the twists and turns were almost hard to keep track of, but for the most part "classic" Koontz.

key to midnight

i liked the book the ending was a little bit of a let down. itfelt like he left some of the characters hanging, but overall it was a good book as all dean koontz books are. i love his work

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