Reading Response

I was having trouble picking out a book to start reading. As a last resort, and last minute, I ended up looking through some of my older sister's books. After googling many of the books and reading summaries I chose What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz. I have never heard of this book, but from what I gather from google it is the second book in a series and it is a murder-mystery. All this to say, I have no clue what I am getting myself into.
    The whole book is very dark and disturbing, it is about a detective, John Calvin, who is investigating the murder of a family of four by the fourteen year old son. The boy's name is Billy, what the reader initially finds out about Billy is that he is a psychopath in a mental hospital for murder. The farther you read into the book that more common and flattering descriptions Billy is given, he was so smart he skipped two grade levels and throughout his hundreds of paperback books not a single one was a murder-mystery. Well, based off of Billy's "normal" self, I would suspect that I would murder someone before he ever did. That is one of the creepiest parts of the book so far. As the book develops the reader finds out that for some reason John has a feeling that his family too will be killed in a massive murder, later he does find pictures of him and his family on Billy's computer.
   That is as far as I have gotten. This book is so detailed, Koontz supplies the reader with vivid imagery by using measurements, colors, feelings, and smells, much to my dislike as he is describing a mastermind's killings. However, What the Night Knows seems to be foreshadowing events that will tie up the book in an amazing way, like maybe an Agatha Christie book?

Reading Times:
What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz:
1/13: 120 min.