Whispers
Published: April 1980
Author: Dean Koontz
Genre: Adult, American, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Parenting, psychological, Serial Killer, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller
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Summary
Hilary Thomas, a Los Angeles screenwriter, is attacked in her house by Bruno Frye, a mentally ill man whose Napa Valley winery she previously visited.
Frye attempts to rape her, but she holds him at gunpoint and calls the cops. Detective Tony Clemenza assures her that Frye has a solid alibi because the cops contacted his house and he replied, demonstrating that he was nowhere near Los Angeles that night.
Frye comes the next day and assaults Hilary again, this time getting numerous knife wounds before fleeing. She contacts the police and meets with Clemenza again, who informs her that Frye's corpse has been discovered and brings her to the morgue to identify it.
Hilary is assaulted once more by a man who looks to be Frye. "Frye" flees just as Clemenza arrives, and Hilary informs him of what transpired.
Frye's psychologist allows them to listen to a cassette recording of one of Frye's sessions after considerable research. Frye mentions identical twins being born with cauls on their faces and claims to have read somewhere that this was a demon's mark.
Frye has been murdering women he believes are possessed by the soul of his deceased mother, who mistreated him and threatened to return from the grave. He believes Hilary is his mother's most recent "host."
Hilary and Tony visit a retired madam who tells them that Leo, Frye's grandpa, took his daughter Katherine to be cared for when she became pregnant with him.
Katherine gave birth to identical twin sons not long after Leo died. The twins were born with cauls on their faces, causing Katherine, who was mentally ill, to assume they were devils. She reared her sons as though they were one and the same person. They were both called Bruno, and they were both praised or punished for whatever they did.
Finally, Hilary and Clemenza return to Frye's house, where he assaults them again before being murdered in a fight with Clemenza.
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