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Under the Beetle's Cellar

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By Mary Willis Walker
Publisher Random House Publishing Group - (Crimeline)
Under the Beetle's Cellar
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The author and heroine of The Red Scream return in a novel so terrifying, so filled with squirming suspense, its bound for the bestseller lists. When Kirkus Reviews greeted Mary Willis Walkers last book, The Red Scream, with welcome to the big time, they werent 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 groups highly fortified compound for fortysix 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 cults ironwilled leader, Samuel Mordecai. And as the clock ticks inexorably, she takes the role of Clarisse Starling opposite Mordecais Hannibal Lecter, engaging in a psychological confrontation as harrowing as any in The Silence Of The Lambs. Tough, terrifying, and relentlessly heartwrenching, this is a novel whose images no reader will ever forget.

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368 pages368 pages
Lexile 760LLexile 760L

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