Velocity - Dean Koontz

I'm a huge fan of Dean Koontz and even a book that doesn't quite make the mark I expect from him, still I will read it and add it to my library. At the risk of repeating myself from other reviews, I read a lot and often re-read favourite books every few years. I used to buy hardbacks, then my budget forced me into paperbacks and just lately I've been buying second hand. I'm fortunate here as I do get a lot bought for me and since I can easily read four books a week, as well as writing, then my daughter's contribution from London book-shops keeps me up to date with my favourite writers. I like Koontz as a writer and I fully understand his reasons for writing. I just wish ...

I’ve been a fan of Dean Koontz for a number of years. Not devoted enough to rush out and buy his latest novel on the day of release in hardback, it’s true, but enough that I make sure none of his paperback releases pass me by. Like many authors who have been writing as long as he has, sometimes he delights me and sometimes he disappoints me. In the last couple of years, he has done more of the former, but that wasn’t always true. He had a bad run a few years ago that made me conclude that the thicker a Dean Koontz novel is, the worse it’s likely to be. So I was pleased to note that “Velocity” wasn’t so big. Billy Wiles is nothing special. He lives alone ...

I grabbed this book as a real bargain from a cheapy bookshop for all of 99p after reading a review written on here that caught my attention. I needed only two sentences to get me hooked on the idea and read the book. These were: “If you don’t take this note to the police, I will KILL a lovely blonde schoolteacher somewhere in Napa County.” “If you do take this note to the police, I will instead KILL an elderly woman active in charity work.” Just those two lines made me realise this was going to be something I would really enjoy and as the author was Dean Koontz, whom I have read favourably before, it was a foregone conclusion ...