Under the Beetle’s Cellar

Literature & Fiction

Walker, Mary Willis

Genre Fiction

Collins Crime

ALL THE DEAD LIE DOWN.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Doubleday,1998

The Red Scream

Bantam]

A mysterious and miraculous correspondence from her long-lost zookeeper father may be the last hope for Katherine Driscoll to save her dog kennel and her pet golden retriever from being auctioned by the bank

Zero at the Bone: A Mystery

Short Stories & Anthologies

Minotaur Books

Texas reporter Molly Cates, whose book describes the horrifying career of serial killer Louie Bronk, realizes, shortly before Louie's execution, that he may be innocent and that her life is in danger. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo. Tour.

United States

DOUBLEDAY

The author and heroine of The Red Scream return in a novel so terrifying, so filled with squirming suspense, it's bound for the bestseller lists. When Kirkus Reviews greeted Mary Willis Walker's last book, The Red Scream, with "welcome to the big time," they weren't kidding. That novel established Walker as an author with "the kind of clout that sets publishers' mouths watering" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). And now she has done it again, with an unforgettable tale ripped from the headlines and more terrifying than our worst nightmares. Kidnapped by a cult of religious fanatics, an Austin school bus driver and eleven of his young charges have been held underground at the group's highly fortified compound for forty-six days. While a team of federal negotiators begins to lose all hope of rescuing the hostages, crime reporter Molly Cates sets outto discover everything she can about the cult's iron-willed leader, Samuel Mordecai. And as the clock ticks inexorably, she takes the role of Clarisse Starling opposite Mordecai's Hannibal Lecter, engaging in a psychological confrontation as harrowing as any in The Silence Of The Lambs. Tough, terrifying, and relentlessly heart-wrenching, this is a novel whose images no reader will ever forget. From the Paperback edition.

Under the Beetle's Cellar

Following her triumph with Under the Beetle's Cellar, Edgar Award-winning author Mary Willis Walker returns with an emotionally charged double mystery that will leave you breathless and begging for more. Her first novel, Zero at the Bone, won both the Agatha and Macavity awards and was nominated for an Edgar. Her second, The Red Scream, won the Edgar Award for Best Novel of 1994. Her third, Under the Beetle's Cellar, won the Hammett Prize, the Macavity Award, and the Anthony for 1995. With All the Dead Lie Down, she becomes one of those outstanding crime writers whose work has joined the ranks of bestselling mainstream fiction. When true-crime reporter Molly Cates's father died more than twenty-five years ago, his death was ruled a suicide, and Molly's obsessive efforts to prove otherwise led to nothing but anguish and the breakup of her family. Now new information comes her way and she reopens the old investigation with a vengeance, but the answers she finally wrests from the past leave her with a moral dilemma she never anticipated. Her quest becomes even more painful when Molly encounters a homeless woman who insists she knows about a secret plot to kill everyone in the Texas legislature. By the time she convinces Molly it's true, it may be too late to prevent disaster. As the Philadelphia Inquirer has said, "Walker can push the scary buttons, but she can also be poignant. And funny. And her sense of place is never less than authoritative." Once again, Mary Willis Walker has written a novel no one will be able to put down, as rich in character and emotion as it is in plot and heart-stopping suspense.

All the Dead Lie Down

Red Scream

Random House Audio |

Private collection, NOT ex-library copy, "All the Dead Lie Down" (Suspence Thriller) by Mary Willis Walker, read by C.J Critt, Unabridged, 9 cassettes, 12.25 hours of listening, Recorded Books, hardshell case and tapes are in like new condition

RECORDED BOOKS^

Winner of the Agatha Award for Best First Domestic Mystery Novel. 'A finely tuned first novel.' - Booklist It had been thirty-one years since Katherine Driscoll had seen her father. Then he sent a cryptic letter. He knew she was in trouble - about to lose everything to creditors. He was offering his help. Katherine went to meet him at the Austin Zoo, where he was senior keeper of the large cats. But she just missed him - he'd been mauled to death by a tiger. Katherine took a job at the zoo and started probing into her father's bizarre death, resulting in a face-off with a killer who had waited thirty-one years for revenge.

Zero At The Bone

Ulverscroft Large Print Books

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