Dean Koontz is an author, producer, and screenwriter from the United States. His series Jane Hawk begins with The Silent Corner. This is the first of a series about a heroine who may pique readers’ interest and go on to be a suspense legend. When a man commits suicide, his last words astound everyone, especially his wife, Jane.
Jane Hawk goes through a wide spectrum of emotions following his death. She hasn’t made up her mind about it yet, and she intends to do everything she can to find out the truth.
And it’s possible that Jane’s husband isn’t the only suspected death. Jane is starting to notice that more individuals around her seem to be committing suicide.
Jane Hawk is about to discover that she is one of America’s most wanted individuals. She has been declared a fugitive, as she embarks on her quest to discover why. People in positions of power are doing everything they can to maintain a secret so terrifying and vital that they will go to any length to keep it hidden, even if it means killing people. During this series, readers will discover if one person’s efforts are enough to send an insidious strategy crashing to the ground. Will she be able to find the guilty people before they escape?
Jane Hawk Books in order
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- The Silent Corner (2017)
- The Whispering Room (2017)
- The Crooked Staircase (2018)
- The Forbidden Door (2018)
- The Night Window (2019)
Similar authors
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- The Perfect Wife by J.P. Delaney follows Abbie, who wakes up with amnesia. Tim, the man who greets her when she awakens, claims to be her husband.
See also: Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas Books in Order.
Most recommended books
- The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5) (4.42 Goodreads score)
- The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk, #2) (4.20 Goodreads score)
- The Forbidden Door (Jane Hawk, #4) (4.20 Goodreads score)
- The Crooked Staircase (Jane Hawk, #3) (4.10 Goodreads score)
- The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1) (3.95 Goodreads score)
Movies based on the books
The Silent Corner, the first book in Dean Koontz’s Jane Hawk series, is being adapted for a TV series. The book has been optioned by Paramount Television and Anonymous Content ahead of its June release.
Latest releases
The fifth and last book in the popular series, The Night Window, was released in 2019.
Book summaries
The Silent Corner (2017)
“I very much need to be dead.”These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for—but took his own life. In the aftermath, his widow, Jane Hawk, does what all her grief, fear, and fury demand: find the truth, no matter what.People of talent and accomplishment, people admired and happy and sound of mind, have been committing suicide in surprising numbers. When Jane seeks to learn why, she becomes the most-wanted fugitive in America. Her powerful enemies are protecting a secret so important—so terrifying—that they will exterminate anyone in their way.But all their power and viciousness may not be enough to stop a woman as clever as they are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless—and who is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.
The Whispering Room (2017)
These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun—just before she takes her own life, and many others’, in a shocking act of carnage. When the disturbing contents of her secret journal are discovered, it seems certain that she must have been insane. But Jane Hawk knows better.In the wake of her husband’s inexplicable suicide—and the equally mysterious deaths of scores of other exemplary individuals—Jane picks up the trail of a secret cabal of powerful players who think themselves above the law and beyond punishment. But the ruthless people bent on hijacking America’s future for their own monstrous ends never banked on a highly trained FBI agent willing to go rogue—and become the nation’s most wanted fugitive—in order to derail their insidious plans to gain absolute power with a terrifying technological breakthrough.Driven by love for her lost husband and by fear for the five-year-old son she has sent into hiding, Jane Hawk has become an unstoppable predator. Those she is hunting will have nowhere to run when her shadow falls across them.
The Crooked Staircase (2018)
“I could be dead tomorrow. Or something worse than dead.” Jane Hawk knows she may be living on borrowed time. But as long as she’s breathing, she’ll never cease her one-woman war against the terrifying conspiracy that threatens the freedom—and free will—of millions. Battling the strange epidemic of murder-suicides that claimed Jane’s husband, and is escalating across the country, has made the rogue FBI agent a wanted fugitive, relentlessly hunted not only by the government but by the secret cabal behind the plot. Deploying every resource their malign nexus of power and technology commands, Jane’s enemies are determined to see her dead . . . or make her wish she was.Jane’s ruthless pursuers can’t stop her from drawing a bead on her prey: a cunning man with connections in high places, a twisted soul of unspeakable depths with an army of professional killers on call. Propelled by her righteous fury and implacable insistence on justice, Jane will make her way from southern Southern California to the snow-swept slopes of Lake Tahoe to confront head-on the lethal forces arrayed against her. But nothing can prepare her for the chilling truth that awaits when she descends the crooked staircase to the dark and dreadful place where her long nightmare was born.
The Forbidden Door (2018)
She was one of the FBI’s top agents until she became the nation’s most-wanted fugitive. Now Jane Hawk may be all that stands between a free nation and its enslavement by a powerful secret society’s terrifying mind-control technology. She couldn’t save her husband, or the others whose lives have been destroyed, but equipped with superior tactical and survival skills—and the fury born of a broken heart and a hunger for justice—Jane has struck major blows against the insidious cabal.But Jane’s enemies are about to hit back hard. If their best operatives can’t outrun her, they mean to bring her running to them, using her five-year-old son as bait. Jane knows there’s no underestimating their capabilities, but she must battle her way back across the country to the remote shelter where her boy is safely hidden . . . for now. As she moves resolutely forward, new threats begin to emerge: a growing number of brain-altered victims driven hopelessly, violently insane. With the madness spreading like a virus, the war between Jane and her enemies will become a fight for all their lives—against the lethal terror unleashed from behind the forbidden door.
The Night Window (2019)
A visionary young filmmaker hunted for sport across a vast Colorado ranch by the celebrated billionaire at the heart of a monstrous cabal . . . A brilliant computer hacker slipping through top-secret databases a whisper ahead of security trackers, gathering the facts to fight the all-powerful perpetrators of mass murder . . . A pair of brutal operators, methodically shadowing their targets with every cutting-edge tool in the arsenal of today’s surveillance state . . . A sequence of quiet heroes—everyday citizens—stepping up, stepping forward, intent on countering the advancing darkness . . . A Vegas mob boss teamed with a homicidal sociopath, circling a beloved boy and his protectors, aiming to secure him as leverage against his fugitive mother . . . And that fugitive mother herself, ex-agent Jane Hawk, closing in on the malevolent architects of ruin she has stalked as they stalk her, prepared to sacrifice herself to finally bring them down.
