Brushed off because people think she can't handle the grief of her husband suicide, Jane Hawk happens upon a conspiracy that is deadly to her and those around her. Going off the grid, she finds help along the way to save others the suffering she has endured. But what she finds is nothing that she ever expected.
Coming off the ending of the Odd Thomas series, Koontz introduces us to a new character and a new threat to our livelihood. Jane is the complete opposite of Thomas. Not armed with supernatural powers, she must rely on her wit and luck to help her through her ordeal. Feisty and not afraid of guns, this FBI agent on hiatus is someone to be reckoned with.
Koontz oscillates about stories of the supernatural, religion and sci-fi. The Silent Corner , like it's name, is rooted in technology and the dangers that can come from that advanced technology. Hitting on the same vein as By The Light of the Moon, technology becomes a control of human beings and even beings to decide our fate.
Full of the typical Koontz prose and exciting action sequences, The Silent Corner is a great start to an long reaching saga. As the reader has connected with Jane, we root for her as well as the survival of our own world.

I feverishly flew through the pages of this book. The protagonist, an FBI agent on leave, Jane Hawk is a grieving widow whose world was shattered when her husband suddenly committed suicide. She is bound and determined to figure out why the suicide rate has skyrocketed across the US to seemingly stable, well adjusted people - and the subsequent minimizing of this fact. Meanwhile, someone really doesn't want her digging and is willing to do anything to stop her. What transpires is an edge of your seat rollercoaster ride that keeps you excited and interested throughout. What she uncovers is much bigger than she anticipated (I won't spoil it) and is really something that makes you think. When the wrong type of people have limitless power, how wrong can things go? You find yourself breathlessly rooting for Jane and watching the stunning action unfold to the very end. Amazing read and I hope to see more Jane in the future!

What can I say about this book but that it is written by one of my all-time favorite authors! Mr. Koontz did not disappoint! Around 1996 I read a book that Dean Koontz wrote entitled "Intensity". This new book reminds me of that action-packed book as the pace does not let up from beginning to end. The story is about an injection that allows the predators to take control of ones mind, which allows for a human robot to do the bidding of these pillagers. To rid themselves of humans that are too strong to succumb totally by forcing them to commit suicide, one wife of such a person decides to explore why such a thing has happened. Jane is an FBI agent that knows how to dig into and find the facts and pursue the enemy.

I was provided an advanced reader copy by Netgalley and Random House Publishing Group for an honest review and thank them immensely for this opportunity! The only drawback to this volume was that it did not end and leaves you needing to read the next book “The Whispering Room”, not coming until January 2018 (which I will definitely do). Would I recommend this book to a friend, family or foe? Absolutely! Enjoy!

One of the FBI's top agents has gone rogue. Or has she? Jane Hawk has been on leave ever since her husband Nathan seemingly committed suicide. Jane insists Nathan's death was not self-inflicted. She's noticed the increasing number of questionable suicides across the country and is on a solo mission to find out why. She must tread carefully since few believe her suspicions, and because the life of her young son has been threatened by some very powerful people.

In "The Silent Corner" Dean Koontz delivers a very believable world where nanotechnology is being used to create a new reality. He takes the reader into the scientific world of mind manipulation and the down and dirty milieu of law enforcement. This ride is full of surprises, action, and twists so hang on.

I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

4.5 stars...I can't round up to 5 because I did have a few issues...and it has more to do with the style of writing I enjoy. He is wordy, wordy, wordy...because of that, I found myself skimming at times to get to the next plot point. I had to slow myself down and go back, because his writing, though descriptive, is just exquisite.

This is classic Dean Koontz. The man can write one hell of a story, and this is one hell of a story. I worry about a mind that comes up with stuff like this!! This book is the start of a serial, but it wraps up enough that yeah, you want to know what's going on, but it's not a total cliffhanger.

This book does not come out until the end of May or early June, so I will spare a detailed review until it releases. But, for Dean Koontz fans, it's a must!!!

amazing book .. full review left on Goodreads!
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32148091-the-silent-corner" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="The Silent Corner" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1487804391m/32148091.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32148091-the-silent-corner">The Silent Corner</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9355.Dean_Koontz">Dean Koontz</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1968128660">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
I'm so appreciative to Netgalley for receiving the Uncorrected Proof of this novel in exchange for an honest Review.<br /> Amazing ... yet, scary ... advance of technology comes with a steep price in this barn burner of a novel. It becomes a high speed roller coaster ride ... Koontz' plotting and prose sweeps you along at breakneck speed.<br /> The protagonist is a badass FBI agent, Jane Hawk who quickly finds herself "off the grid" while conducting her own investigation .... she has to "go rogue" to find understanding in the suicide of<br />her War Hero husband. Going into The Silent Corner involves not using GPS on a car ... avoiding Smartphones ... even when off , they can be "pinged" to locate the user ... avoid using charges, etc<br /> Jane cannot believe "Nick" would leave her and their your son Travis ... with absolutely no reason. She takes a leave of absence ... and soon finds herself in journey across our nation, uncovering data pointing to a cabal of people with power and science on their side. There just might be a horrific scientific explaination behind the plethora of unexpected suicides. She realizes she must be on the right track ... after multiple attemps are made on her life.<br /> The paranoid theme of this thriller is not paranoid when the results of her investigation unfold.<br />The denouement of the novel plays out like a "Sam Peckinpah Movie" .... alone worth the price of admission. I eagerly await the return of Jane Hawk in Koontz' next novel: The Whispering Room
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4.8/5

I received an ARC copy of this book via Netgalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine in exchange for an honest review.

I loved Koontz's Odd Thomas series and had yet to read anything else by him yet. I requested a copy to see if I would enjoy anything else by him that wasn't related to that series.

Aware that this is the first entry in a totally different series with a new main character, a woman named Jane Hawk, which is a refreshing change of pace I decided to dive into something that was new.

Kootnz is known for horror, (the technology touches and use that technology presents in the novel create a terrifying atmosphere under which the plot unravels slowly because Koontz is wordy and throughly descriptive), but I found this to be completely different and I was actually into the novel because it read more like a thriller and a guessing game. He's created a strong female character, (which always makes me happy when I read a book), that draws the reader in directly from the first page and works well.

My only real problem is that the novel "wraps up" only to leave the reader with a lot of questions and this might be a problem for anyone that doesn't want to start reading another series. I will be reading the next book to see where this entire series ends up going.

This is a well crafted thriller with a very interesting premise. We should pay attention to statistics, there may be nefarious activity hidden behind rising numbers!

“The Silent Corner” is the latest by Dean Koontz. In it, we meet Jane Hawk, an FBI agent haunted by the suicide of her husband. We accompany Jane on a roller-coaster trip as she seeks to find answers, fleeing the past, and yet hoping to redeem it, all the time falling into a future darker than she can imagine. The action is non-stop as she skirts the law and uncovers the unthinkable.

The strength of this book is Koontz’s incredible use of language. The reader is immersed in every scene, every event, every problem, and every character all along her journey. Example after example leap from every page. (I cannot help but include a few snippets, somewhat abbreviated and out of context, and yet so characteristic of the rich, vivid, text in the book.) The reader walks along the shore with Jane, surveying the lake, placid and disarranged because the rumpled-laundry clouds are reflected in the serene mirrored surface, shivers in the rain as it sheets through the street as if paving the blacktop with ice, or watches the sky over L. A. with its iridescent blues and greens.
Readers follow Jane as she searches for answers. She encounters technology as it collides with the dark web and people with power. She is not afraid for herself but for her son and the future, darker than dark. She does not doubt what she had done or what she must do; she struggles to understand how she has the capability to do it.

I was privileged to receive an advanced copy of this book to review, and I highly, highly recommend it. This is one of Koontz’s best. One caution, however, when you start this book, be sure you set aside time to finish, because you will not be able to put it down. The action, the incredible descriptions, and the complex characters, (the good, the bad, and the incredibly evil) will suck you in right from the start. And, when you are done, you will want to rent the movie “The Manchurian Candidate.”
I cannot wait to follow Jane in the next installment of her journey.

Definitely a Dean Koontz classic. This is a must-have if you love his other novels. I can't really get to much into the plot without giving it away, but it ends on a total cliffhanger.

I very much need to be dead.

The Silent Corner is a new series from Dean Koontz which introduces a strong female lead character, FBI agent, Jane Hawk. Jane goes on leave after her husband's suicide - a suicide that occurred after a string of migraine headaches. While grieving her husband's death, Jane realizes that suicide rates have gone up and that very accomplished seemingly happy people are committing suicide in alarmingly high numbers. As Jane seeks to find answers, she becomes a hunted woman. A woman, who herself is hunting for the truth. She has to do everything in secret in order to stay alive. There are those in power who would do anything to stop her from finding out the truth.

I have not read a Dean Koontz book in quite some time. I am used to his "horror" books and this was definitely not a "horror" book, but more of a suspense non-stop action thriller. I will admit, I kinda missed the "horror". Plus this is the beginning of a new series so there is not true "resolution" in this book which would be fine if I LOVED the book - which I didn't. I liked the book but as far as conspiracy books are concerned, this fell flat for me. There was a lot of action, I will give it that, but even will all of the action, the story did not grab me. Yes, all of the action kept my attention and I did keep reading in order to find out who was behind the wave of suicides. This book did not drag. There was always something going on, Jane was always kicking some bad guy's butt. Koontz did write a strong female character, I will give him that. Often I will read a book which is part of a series, and even if I read a book out of order, the book feels like a stand alone novel for me. This book did not feel like a stand alone novel as there was no resolution. Perhaps I would have enjoyed the book more if there was some glimmer of who was the mastermind, who was the man visiting people in their homes, what is the agenda, how are people being infected, etc. For me, there were too many unanswered questions.


Received a copy of this book from NetGalley and Bantam in exchange for an honest review.

I have never been a hardcore Dean Koontz fan even though I enjoy reading this genre. There have been some hits and misses with his books. In the beginning I thought this was going to be another miss. I wasn't too fond of his writing style here. There are 6 parts to this book and some of the chapters are really short, like 2 pages long. I guess this makes it easier to read? Koontz can also get excessively descriptive which could make it boring. The second half of the book picked up for me and I couldn't put it down.

Jane Hawk's marine husband had committed suicide. This shocked Jane since he showed no signs of unhappiness or depression. After some research, she found out that the suicide rate for happy and accomplished people have gone up. Now on FBI leave, Jane is on the run because "they" have threatened her and her son. I love the well developed Jane character. She is smart, determined and beautiful.

This book is like a non-stop chase scene. At no point is there slowing down. Even though the ending is not a cliffhanger, Jane's journey has not ended. She has won the fight but not the battle. I look forward to reading more from this series.

Thank you to NetGalley, Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, and Dean Koontz for the opportunity to read and review "The Silent Corner".

Suspense? Check. Action? Check. Compelling protagonist? Check. Believable primary crisis? Check.

A couple months after her husband Nick's suicide, FBI agent Jane Hawk is on leave from the Bureau. Although she is on leave, she isn't on vacation.

Her husband's suicide went against his basic personality--he was not the type to end his own life prematurely. Strangely, other suicides around the nation are similarly committed by those who seem least likely to do such a thing.

Jane is determined to find out why.

She has gone rogue and off the grid, and she knows who the bad guys are. They're the good guys.

One fear most of us can relate to is a loss of control over our own lives. It is upon this fear that The Silent Corner capitalizes. The monsters are real; the evil is human. And it thrives inside powerful people. But modern mind control can't occur without technology. And what if the technology that made mind control possible didn't leave behind evidence?

That's what you're in for with The Silent Corner, the first in a trilogy featuring Jane Hawk.
I enjoyed this one. As far as Koontz's newer titles go, this is one of the better ones, and one worth reading. I found the chapter lengths to be ideal and easy to read in small chunks of time, which helps make the entire novel a fairly quick read.

Special thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine/Bantam for giving me the opportunity to preview this title.

Jane Hawk was horrified to find her husband dead in the bathroom, by his own K-Bar service knife. He had every reason to live, no history of depression, and it just didn't make sense. Then she started doing some research. As an FBI agent, she knew how to search. Things didn't add up for a lot of recent deaths. The suicide rate was going up and going up where it made no sense -- other people with everything to live for. As she uses her leave from the FBI to g to the darkest corners of this mystery, she finds herself in constant danger.

I have read several books by Dean Kootz and was anxious to read this new one. I know it's the first book of a series. I'm always interested in a new series. I loved the main character, Jane. Liked how strong she was and her knowledge of different things. The book was a little long for me but I did enjoy the story and found the whole idea fascinating. The ending seemed a little abrupt but I think it was because of it starting a series. Of course, I will be interested in the next book.

The Silent Corner : A Novel of Suspense
by Dean Koontz
Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine
Bantam
June 2017

Good news for Koontz fans: There is a new series coming this summer! The Silent Corner offers a promising start to a story that defines suspense.

What's different about this book
The "silent corner," that place where truly untrackable individuals nonethless remain able to use the Internet undetected.

Protagonist Jane Hawk survives in that silent corner. I was hooked by the quick-to-start quest of Jane, a recent widow struggling to uncover why her husband, one of a growing pattern of atypical suicides, took his life. 

Jane begins to unravel a plot, the complexity of which reveals the global, ubiquitous nature of an enemy that can and does control individuals by passing their conscious thinking through science and technology.  Yet Jane's story provides engaging ingenuity and resourcefulness, as well as an encouraging cadre of friends who trust her despite her inexplicable actions off the grid.

This novel displays Koontz' exceptional crafting of a cohesive tale: lots of courage to applaud, lots of twists to uncover, and lots of thrills for the reader. This is so solid a work that it gives the impression of a monolithic, corporate effort that will lead us through a series of equally well-designed sequels.  Well-thought-out and thrilling to read. It's almost too threatening a world to want to live in.

What I'll do now that I've read this
The double charm of a new Koontz novel, the fast pace, and the promise of a new series heroine with serious bad guys will be an irresistible offering to my patrons, both young adult and adult readers.  There's a large population segment that will be on the waiting list for this book.

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Dean Koontz at his best! Suspenseful and heart pounding action from page one to the end! Can't wait for the next Jane Hawk book.

I quit! I don't know if this is a typical Kooning book but I kept losing track of what I was reading.....so many descriptive words- 25 to say what an interesting 5 could have said. The premise sounds very interesting but I couldn't stay on track.

5 Stars

This book is a high octane romp across the United States. Jane Hawk is an FBI Agent who is on leave and is investigating the high incidence of suicide. The rate has suddenly spiked over the past years. She is being hunted by nameless individuals from a nameless agency which will go to great lengths to stop her.

Jane is both creative and audacious in her planning and methods of escape. She meets a myriad of people along the way. They are colorful and interesting. But then, so are the bad guys. She is relentless in seeking the truth of not only her husband’s suicide, but an untold score of others as well. Those chasing her are as ruthless as she is driven – to catch her and kill her – and her son.

This book is suspenseful and thrilling. Mr. Koontz has a way of turning a phrase that is very effective. This is a brilliantly written and plotted novel. I truly enjoyed reading it. I’ve read Dean Koontz for several years now and some of his books I like and some I do not. However, this is one of the very good ones!

I noticed at the end of the book there was a blurb about the next Jane Hawk novel. I was thrilled to discover that Mr. Koontz is not finished writing about Jane Hawk yet.

I want to send a very big thanks to Netgalley and Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine/Bantam
For forwarding to me a copy of this remarkable book to read.

This was interesting and suspenseful, with Koontz's trademark descriptive prose, but not my favorite. I would read the sequel to see what happens with the main character though-it looks to be the start of a new series now that Odd Thomas is finished.