title: The Crooked Staircase: A Jane Hawk Novel
author:  Dean Koontz 
description: An absorbing thriller full of fresh touches . . . Writing his unusual heroine, [Dean] Koontz keeps the pages alive with attitude as well as action. . . . For [Jane] Hawk, who is as fearless as she is beautiful, no obstacle is too great, especially with the well-being of her hidden-away five-year-old son on her mind.<b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br /><br /> Spellbinding . . . Beautifully plotted and written with notable care and flare . . . The Hawk series . . . is among [Dean Koontzs] best work.<b><i>Booklist</i>(starred review)</b><br /><br />Unrelenting . . . [Jane] rivets readers attention. . . . Michael Crichton fans and thriller aficionados who appreciate a fierce female protagonist . . . should be urged to meet Jane Hawk.<b><i>Library Journal</i></b><br /><br /> With his unforgettable Jane Hawk books, master storyteller Koontz has really tapped into the amorphous feelings of anxiety and fear that much of the world is currently experiencing. In book three, the web of lies, treachery and death continues to creep ever closer to Jane; her iron determination to expose and destroy this growing evil burns ever brighter. . . . Keep the lights on when reading this, the creepy factor is off the charts!<b><i>RT Book Reviews</i></b>
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  _The Crooked Staircase_ is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and
  incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or
  locales is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  Copyright © 2018 by Dean Koontz
  
  
  Excerpt from _The Forbidden Door_ by Dean Koontz copyright © 2018 by Dean
  Koontz
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a
  division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
  
  
  BANTAM BOOKS and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin
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