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Going Home in the Dark

by Dean Koontz

Friendship and buried childhood fears

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Friendship and buried childhood fears

In Maple Grove, a friend’s coma draws three former companions back to the town they left behind. Their return stirs memories of a frightening figure and unsettling events from childhood—things they seem to have been made to forget. With Ernie’s condition worsening, the friends must confront what remains hidden in their shared past. The novel brings psychological suspense together with themes of memory, old loyalties, and the way a seemingly familiar hometown can hold unresolved secrets.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in psychological suspense rooted in childhood memories and buried secrets.
  • For readers who enjoy stories about former friends reunited by a crisis.
  • For readers drawn to ominous hometown settings and mysteries tied to the past.

Themes

Childhood fears and memoryFriendship and loyaltyBuried secretsHometown unease

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Book overview

When hometown horrors come back to haunt, friendship is salvation in a novel about childhood fears and buried secrets by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz.

As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable friends in the idyllic town of Maple Grove. Three left to pursue lofty dreams--and achieved them. Only Ernie never left. When he falls into a coma, his three amigos feel an urgent need to return home. Don't they remember people lapsing into comas back then? And those people always awoke...didn't they?

After two decades, not a lot has changed in Maple Grove, especially Ernie's obnoxious, scary mother. But Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer begin to remember a hulking, murderous figure and weirdness piled on mystery that they were made to forget. As Ernie sinks deeper into darkness, something strange awaits any friend who tries to save him.

For Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer, time is running out to remember the terrors of the past in a perfect town where nothing is what it seems. For Maple Grove, it's a chance to have the "four amigos," as they once called themselves, back in its grasp.

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