Dean Koontz: A Master of Romantic Suspense

As a master of cross-genre novels, Dean Koontz manages to deliver great love stories in the midst of his “edge-of-your-seat” suspense stories. If it’s Romantic Suspense you’re looking for, we recommend the following great reads from Dean Koontz’s library of best-selling suspense novels. Start anywhere on this list, you won’t be disappointed in love Koontz style!

ODD THOMAS, who sees dead people, thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, even if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe it's a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Odd Thomas is sure to win a special place reader’s hearts and minds. Click here to read more.

THE GOOD GUY is Tim Carrier, just a regular guy caught in the center of a mystery of extraordinary proportions. He’s the one man who can save an innocent life and stop a killer far more powerful than any cop…and as relentless as evil incarnate. But first Tim must discover within himself the capacity for selflessness, endurance, love and courage that can turn even an ordinary man into a hero. Click here to read more.

THE HUSBAND brings us the story of an ordinary man whose extraordinary commitment to his wife will take him on a harrowing journey of adventure, sacrifice, and redemption to the mystery of love itself-and to a showdown with the darkness that would destroy it forever.  What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill? Click here to read more.

WATCHERS is an explosive story of a man and a woman, caught in a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation… a fable about love and trust…imaginative and unusual…a Koontz classic! Click here to read more.

DARK RIVERS OF THE HEART – What draws Spencer Grant to step through the red door…to fall in love with a woman he knows nothing about…to face inner demons he thought he’d buried years ago? Click here to read more.

LIGHTNING strikes twice when a mysterious blond -haired stranger appears out of nowhere to save Laura- first at her birth, then as an adult… Is he a guardian angel, the devil in disguise, or the master of a haunting destiny beyond time and space? Click here to read more.

TICK TOCK. The deadline is dawn and Tommy Phan must figure out the message on his computer or his life will be suddenly destroyed. His only ally is a beautiful, strangely intuitive waitress he meets by chance or by a design beyond his comprehension. Click here to read more.

LIFE EXPECTANCY — On the day Jimmy Tock, a pastry chef in a Colorado resort town, was born, Jimmy's dying grandfather predicted five future dates that would be terrible for Jimmy. That same day, a bitter, deranged circus clown committed multiple murders in the hospital.  Twenty years later, when the vengeful son of that clown takes Jimmy and a beautiful young woman, Lorrie Hicks, hostage in the local library, Jimmy falls in love. He and Lorrie survive and marry, but will they survive the four subsequent terrible days? Click here to read more.

COLD FIRE — In Portland, he saved a young boy from a drunk driver. In Boston, he rescued a child from an underground explosion. In Houston, he disarmed a man who was trying to shoot his own wife. Reporter Holly Thorne was intrigued by this strange quiet savior named Jim Ironheart. She was even falling in love with him. But what power compelled an ordinary man to save twelve lives in three months? What visions haunted his dreams? And why did he whisper in his sleep: There is an Enemy. It is coming. It’ll kill us all…? Click here to read more.