Koontz, Dean R

Odd Thomas and his traveling companion, Annamaria, think they have found a haven in Roseland, a magnificent West Coast property, but the manor has deep secrets and mysteries that make it more hell than haven.

Small-time landscaper Mitch Rafferty's life becomes a nightmare when he receives a call on his cell phone from a stranger who has kidnapped his wife and is giving him sixty hours to come up with an impossible two million dollars for her safe return.

Bartender Billy Wiles thinks the note on his windshield threatening the murder of a schoolteacher if he ignores it or the murder of an elderly woman if he goes to the police is a hoax; but when a young teacher is killed and he receives other warnings, his life becomes a nightmare.

Ellen ran away from home and joined a carnival where she married and had a child. Now she has a new life with a new husband and two children, but she drowns her guilt in alcohol and prayer.

Bibi Blair defied death after being told by her doctors that she only had one year to live. When she's told by a strange woman that she was spared death in order to save a girl named Ashley Bell, Bibi becomes obsessed with finding her. Along the way, Bibi encounters both worldly and supernatural dangers that threaten to stop her in her tracks.

Contains humorous observations and advice about Christmas from the perspective of the author's dog, Trixie, covering gifts, activities, memories, and more.

A year after crime reporter Joe Carpenter's wife and two young daughters are killed in a plane crash in which there are reportedly no survivors, he meets a mysterious woman named Rose who claims to have walked away from the disaster and he embarks on a mission fueled by rage and hope.

"Two years after the cataclysmic events that sent him journeying into mystery, Odd Thomas, the intrepid fry cook who sees the dead and tries to help them, has traveled full circle, back to his beloved home town of Pico Mundo and the people he loves. He has come to save them--and perhaps humanity--from the full flowering of evil it is his destiny to confront, as he draws ever closer to the truth of the world and his place in it. Stronger, wiser than he started, and with the help of the friends he has made along the way, Odd prepares to confront the terrible forces arrayed against him and possibly to journey still farther, to his long-awaited reunion with his lost love, Stormy Llewellyn"--Provided by publisher.

A gifted musician relates the events of 1967 that impacted his family and friends, from his indomitable "piano man" grandfather and struggling singer single mother to the everyday saints and sinners who shaped his life.