Sharon D. reviewed on 12/1/2005 + 224 more book reviews

This book is an exciting cat-and-mouse chase that is grounded in a more than usually believable context. The author, Koontz, skillfully intercuts scenes that comment on each other and build ever more tension...touching on such issues as child abuse, governmental protection of criminals, and the gray moral areas of human experimentation. He keeps his appealing characters moving at a breakneck pace toward revelations from which they shrink.
Little Melanie had been kidnapped when she was only three. She was nine when she was found wandering the L.A. streets with blank eyes. What had become of her in all those years of darkness..and what was the terrible secret, clutching at her soul, that she dared not even whisper?
Her loving mother and the police desparately hunted for the answer. They needed Melanie to help get to the bottom of the most savage scene of carnage the city had ever seen. And they would do anything to save her from whatever dreadful force or thing had invaded her young life. But first they would have to save themselves from a rising tide of terror...and from an icy evil howling through.... the door to December.

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