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The Bone Farm

The Bone Farm

Psychological HorrorThriller
Published
2018

Synopsis

The Bone Farm is a Dean Koontz novella written for audio, set before the events of the Jane Hawk novels. Jane is still an FBI agent in good standing, working alongside her partner Gary Burkett, and the case in front of them is a serial killer the press has nicknamed the Mother Hater.

College student Katherine Haskell never arrives back at school. She is the killer's newest victim, and the only way Jane and Burkett will find her in time is to get inside a mind organised around ritual, obsession and a strange relationship with time itself.

At roughly two hours, this is a compact procedural rather than a full Koontz thriller, and it functions as an origin sketch for a heroine who would later take over five novels. It sits at #0.5 in the Jane Hawk series and was released as a Brilliance Audio original in 2018.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

DarkTenseGrittyCreepy

Genres

Psychological Horror Thriller Crime Suspense

About the author

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Dean Koontz

Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945, in Everett, Pennsylvania) is an American author of suspense and thriller fiction that frequently blends horror, science fiction, mystery, and dark comedy. He has published more than 100 novels, several of which have reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list in both hardcover and paperback. Early in his career he wrote under a number of pseudonyms before publishing under his own name; his 1980 novel "Whispers" is often cited as his breakthrough....

Characters

Jane HawkProtagonist

FBI agent, years before the events of the main Jane Hawk series.

Gary BurkettSupporting

Jane's FBI partner on the Mother Hater case.

Katherine HaskellSupporting

A college student abducted on her way back to school.

All characters in The Bone Farm

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