What The Night Knows: Dean Koontz

Billy Lucas confesses to a shocking crime...he's only fourteen years old...Billy is a sadistic killer and proud of it.  He's in the secure wing of the state hospital but he seems too wise for his age - not crazy - but too knowing. About the nature of evil, and whether it lives on beyond death. Too knowing about other crimes that took place before he was born.  Murders from twenty years ago surface in the mind of Detective John  Calvino as he interviews young Billy.  Calvino carries away a signed confession...and a sense of great danger. That night he feels that somehow, Billy has come home with him, to his family. The haunted feeling does not go away - it only gets worse.  Then another killing spree happens just as and when Calvino dreaded it would.  Billy is safely locked away, but not the ghost, if the ghost exists, that links these murders with past crimes and with John Calvino.  Anything could happen and surely will - again...

Trade paperback; HarperCollins 2011; very faint shelfwear; no spine creases