Koontz is an excellent story teller.

By the Light of the Moon is his 2007 novel. Suspense, mystery, and no shortage of the supernatural.

Dylan O’Conner is traveling with his 20-year-old autistic brother Shep.

An evil doctor injects them with a new drug.

Jillian Jackson, a traveling comedian, is tied up and chloroformed by the doctor before being injected with the same substance.

Dylan becomes psychometric and Shep reveals an ability to travel from one place to another, referred to as ‘folding’. Eventually, they come to share each other’s abilities.

They are on the run as the BAD GUYS don’t want the secrets of the nanotechnology to become known.

Perveen Mistry is Bombay’s first female lawyer.

A good premise for this, the 3rd book in the series.

November 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a four month tour.

The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn’t surprised when local unrest over the royal arrival spirals into riots. But she’s horrified by the death of Freny Cuttingmaster, an eighteen-year-old female Parsi student, who falls from a second-floor gallery just as the prince’s grand procession is passing by her college.

Freny had come for a legal consultation just days before her death, and what she confided makes Perveen suspicious that her death was not an accident. …

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Start with Widows of Malabar Hill, the 1st book in the series.

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Some feel his 1994 novel — Praying for Sleep — was the 1st to gain Deaver wide acclaim.

It is very good.

On a savage, storm-lashed night, Michael Hrubek — a dangerously paranoid schizophrenic — escapes from a mental hospital for the criminally insane by impersonating a dead man.

He’s on a mission — to find Lis Atcheson, the woman whose testimony identified him as the gruesome Indian Leap State Park murderer. …

Racing to intercept him are his psychiatrist, Richard Kohler, a brilliant doctor — but one with his own secrets to protect; Trenton Heck, a professional dog tracker, with an uncanny skill for picking up a trail and a desperate need for the reward money offered for Hrubek’s return; and Lis’s husband, Owen Atcheson, a man of uncommon intelligence and determination — who must hunt Hrubek down before he can destroy his wife.

Yet Michael’s madness is inextricably entwined with his genius — and he proves a far greater adversary than any of his pursuers anticipated. For though his mind is tormented by his eerie delusions of betrayal and revenge, he is crystal clear on one point: he knows Lis Atcheson better than she knows herself, and as he hunts her he is bringing a terrible secret into the light of day.

For me, Shari Lapena is the queen of the psychological thriller novelists.

I’m always THRILLED with each new book release.

Everyone Here Is Lying is another fantastic story.

William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he’s been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper.

Hours later, Avery’s family declares her missing.

Suddenly Stanhope doesn’t feel so safe. And William isn’t the only one on his street who’s hiding a lie. As witnesses come forward with information that may or may not be true, Avery’s neighbors become increasingly unhinged.

Who took Avery Wooler?