Dean Koontz, the prolific master of suspense, calls his new book, “The Bad Weather Friend,” one of his favorites. Most authors favor their new work. But Dean Koontz isn’t most authors. He’s written ...

Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Bestselling novelist Dean Koontz often writes about strangers brought together for reasons they can’t explain to confront forces they ...

Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. A turbulent flight turned Dean Koontz off flying decades ago. No problem: His imagination does all the soaring he needs to create the ...

"What the Night Knows" (Bantam, $28), by Dean Koontz: Dean Koontz, one of the suspense giants, has written one of his best horror novels in years. Koontz has been hit and miss lately, but he's back in ...

IRVINE, Calif. - Few American writers sell as many books, live better or worry more than Dean Koontz. "There are days that you think, 'I can't do this anymore,'" says Koontz, 77, author of more than ...

The author, most recently, of “The City” is a fan of Marilynne Robinson and Cormac McCarthy: “Both offer voluptuous yet highly controlled language and profound moral purpose.” New books by Wally Lamb, ...

It’s hard not to binge read a Dean Koontz novel. Koontz’s prose is beyond tight. His suspenseful plots hurl readers headlong into raucous adventures in which the stakes for his protagonists are ...

Dean Koontz has a drawer stuffed with ideas he will never use. The prolific novelist often scribbles down possibilities and tosses them in the drawer, where he estimates he has 80 plots collected. He ...