The Door to December

De: Dean Koontz

Narrado por: Moniqua Plante, Troy Duran

A call in the middle of the night summoned psychiatrist Laura McCaffrey out into the rain-swept streets of Los Angeles. The police had found her husband—beaten to death. But what of her daughter, Melanie, whom he had kidnapped six years earlier? At the brutal murder scene, the police lead Laura into her husband's makeshift lab—and open the door to a rising tide of terror that has trapped Melanie in its midst...

©1985, 1994 Dean Koontz. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

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”First-rate suspense, scary and stylish.”—Los Angeles Times

Dean Koontz never disappoints

This is one of the classic. I believe it originally released in 1985 and now the audiobook. The story is quite predictable but it’s still very fun to listen. Troy Duran is the GOAT, I can listen to him reading anything. It was first time for me listening Moniqua Plante, she was fantastic as well. The book created an intense scene and suspenseful also frightening as the story goes. I couldn’t stop listening. I would give it 6 stars just for the narrators.

Misuse of the term “Autism”

I love Dean Koontz- but I cringed at his rampant use of the word “autism” to describe something that was absolutely not autism. The story was predictable but the characters were fun. The female narrator had some odd inflection, but I enjoyed the male’s performance.

The length, the lack of time in history the story takes place in.

This book was at least 60% longer than needed to be. It was a long hard slog to get through interesting, but not overly so. There was no reference to what year the story was taking place. That was interesting because Audible has the release of the book as 2025 yet in the story one of the characters is using floppy discs and at another point, a main character sees a Steven Spielberg movie in a theater. The above suggests to me as occurring somewhere in the 1980s? I normally really, really enjoy this author, but this book not so much.

the details of the events

I always like Dean's books. His imagination is unlike any other writer. The story ended with being able to give yourself another chance.

Dean Koontz is always great, but this wasn’t my favorite

I would pick another Dean Coons book.

One thing I normally love about Dean Koontz is that his characters are so clever, and usually funny, even when the stories not funny. It seems like the only person who was funny was the guy who worked in the morgue. So that was noticeably lacking. The readers were good except for one distracting and annoying habit that of gas being dramatically at the end of every sentence. Like, do you hear how dramatically I read gasp-pause-you can tell I’m feeling so emotional because-Gasp-pause-I just guessed for breathing at the end of every sentence-gasp-pause. I almost wanted to stop reading it when one chapter was especially bad with it, but then it quit being so noticeable. Maybe she got into her role and didn’t think about it.