The Darkest Evening of the Year

The Darkest Evening of the Year

Author	Dean Koontz
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Psychological thriller
Publisher	Bantam Books
Publication date	November 27, 2007
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	352 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN	ISBN 0-553-80482-0 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC	153581244
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Class	PS3561.O55 D287 2007

The Darkest Evening of the Year is a novel by the author Dean Koontz, released on November 27, 2007. The title is a possible allusion to Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".

Premise

Amy Redwing's risk-taking on behalf of desperate dogs is legendary. With money she inherited from a source she will never discuss, she founded and runs a group that rescues abandoned or abused golden retrievers. She has a treasury of astonishing rescue stories—a friend tells her she'll be broke by the time she's 40 if she carries on funding the work. Is it this reckless devotion to her work that prevents her making a commitment to the love of her life, Brian McCarthy? It seems so when a particularly thrilling and bizarre rescue brings Nickie into her care. Nickie is instantly recognized as pack leader by Amy's own two dogs, and her bond with Amy is like no other dog's. But at this moment of joy an unknown and dangerous person arrives on the scene.

Evidence mounts up that Amy is being pursued by those who wish her, Brian and her dogs harm. A handful of murderers are after Brian and Amy, stealing, spying and murdering anyone who gets in their way.

Brian and Amy try and work past their respective dark pasts in order to save each other, their dogs and other innocents caught in the mess.

Works of Dean Koontz

Novels	Star Quest (1968) The Flesh in the Furnace (1972) Chase (1972) Demon Seed (1973) Shattered (1973) Dragonfly (1975) Invasion (1975) Night Chills (1976) The Face of Fear (1977) The Vision (1977) The Key to Midnight (1979) The Voice of the Night (1980) The Funhouse (1980) Whispers (1980) The Mask (1981) The Eyes of Darkness (1981) The House of Thunder (1981) Phantoms (1983) Darkfall (1984) The Servants of Twilight (1984) Twilight Eyes (1985) The Door to December (1985) Strangers (1986) Watchers (1987) Shadow Fires (1987) Lightning (1988) Midnight (1989) The Bad Place (1990) Cold Fire (1991) Hideaway (1992) Mr. Murder (1993) Dragon Tears (1993) Winter Moon (1994) Dark Rivers of the Heart (1994) Icebound (1995) Strange Highways 1995) Intensity (1996) Ticktock (1996) Sole Survivor (1997) Fear Nothing (1998) Seize the Night (1998) False Memory (1999) From the Corner of His Eye (2000) One Door Away from Heaven (2001) By the Light of the Moon (2002) The Face (2003) Odd Thomas (2003) The Taking (2004) Life Expectancy (2004) Prodigal Son (2005) Velocity (2005) City of Night (2005) Forever Odd (2005) The Husband (2006) Brother Odd (2006) The Good Guy (2007) The Darkest Evening of the Year (2007) Odd Hours (2008) Your Heart Belongs to Me (2008) Relentless (2009) Dead and Alive (2009) Breathless (2009) Lost Souls (2010) What the Night Knows (2010) The Dead Town (2011) 77 Shadow Street (2011) Odd Apocalypse (2012) Deeply Odd (2013) Innocence (2013) The City (2014) Saint Odd (2015) Ashley Bell (????)

Film Adaptations	Demon Seed (1977) The Intruder (1977) Watchers (1988) Whispers (1990) Watchers II (1990) The Face of Fear (1990) The Servants of Twilight (1991) Watchers 3 (1994) Hideaway (1995) Intensity (1997) Mr. Murder (1998) Phantoms (1998) Watchers Reborn (1998) Sole Survivor (2000) Black River (2001) Frankenstein (2004) Odd Thomas (2013)