![]() Somewhere out there in the multiverse, Michelle – adored wife and mother – is still alive. It offers three options: HOME, SELECT or RETURN. And up on the ridgeline overlooking the town, thirteen large crows are perched like the living totems of a clan of malicious wizards… The screen of the key reads ELSEWHERE 1.13. There’s the smell of burning books on the air. In the park, Amity kicks over some pebbles, before realising they are bloodied teeth. However, some books are better than others and I feel this is one of his best and I’ve read a lot of his books. Down in the town, everything is a little more shabby. I’m not normally thrilled with stories about parallel universes. Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has wor. It seems, to begin with, that nothing has changed but then he starts to notice subtle differences around the house, and outside, the weather has changed and they appear to have different neighbours. Read 1,437 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. With his beloved wife missing, having the key to everything in his possession proves to be just too much of a temptation for Jeff, and not long afterwards he opens the box and activates the key. Jeff quickly hides it away, which is just as well, since some sinister ‘federal’ agents soon turn up on his doorstep, making threats and looking for Ed. He’ll come back for it in a year: but on no account during that time is Jeff to open the box. Then one day their itinerant friend Ed – known locally as ‘Mr Spooky’ – hands into Jeff’s care a small box containing ‘the key to everything’, with the warning that it’s worth around $76 billion, and that he has a demonic posse on his tail searching for it, and that because it's both so powerful and so valuable, they’ll never give up their quest to get their hands on it. ![]() Spanning centuries and continents, this is a darkly romantic and suspenseful tale by a writer at the top of her game. 20, 2020 California man Jeffy Coltrane and his 11-year-old daughter, Amity, discover the wonders and horrors of multiverse travel after an inventor entrusts them with a special device. This is the kind of book you stay up all night readingrich and satisfying and strange and impeccably crafted. ![]() He’s doing a pretty good job of it, and though Amity misses her mom she pours her excess love into her pet mouse Snowball: she’s on a promise for her own puppy if she proves she can take good care of the mouse. ELSEWHERE by Dean Koontz RELEASE DATE: Oct. In the little South Californian town of Suavidad Beach, Jeff Coltrane is raising his daughter Amity on his own, ever since his wife Michelle went missing seven years ago. In ELSEWHERE, master storyteller Dean Koontz, has created a brilliant and terrifying speculative thriller with hat-tips to George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and HG Wells. ![]()
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