Under the Beetle’s Cellar

Under the Beetle’s Cellar

by Mary Willis Walker (Author)

Synopsis

A chilling, only-too-topical thriller from the award-winning author of THE RED SCREAM and ALL THE DEAD LIE DOWN. Eleven Texan schoolchildren and their bus driver are captured by a fundamentalist cult, taken to a fortified compound and buried underground, kept alive but only just. Negotiations lead nowhere. Enter Molly Cates, tenacious crime writer with the inside track on the cult leader. But time is running out...Claustrophobic terror alternates with frenzied investigations as the sect's deadline approaches. Post-Waco, post-Oklahoma, the nature of cults is explored to its grim, unrelenting limits in this terrifically paced novel of suspense.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: New
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 17 May 1999

ISBN 10: 0006498280
ISBN 13: 9780006498285
Book Overview: Mary Willis Walker won the Edgar for Best Novel of 1995 with The Red Scream .

Media Reviews
'Nail-biting suspense from the first page, masterfully extended to the last ' Kirkus Reviews 'A knockout novel. With unerring pacing... Walker leads up to her superbly orchestrated final act, which will leave readers cheering, weeping and gasping for breath' Publishers Weekly 'An instant classic in mystery and suspense. The best chiller-thriller of the year' James Patterson 'A kidnap story of rare intensity and mounting tension' Irish Times
Author Bio
Mary Willis Walker won an Agatha for her first novel (which was also nominated for the Macavity and the Edgar) and the prestigious Edgar with her second, THE RED SCREAM. She lives in Austin, Texas.