All the Dead Lie Down - Hardcover

Walker, Mary Willis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002257254 ISBN 13: 9780002257251

Publisher: Collins Crime, 1998

Synopsis

Completely compelling thriller featuring crime journalist Molly Cates (heroine of THE RED SCREAM and UNDER THE BEETLE’S CELLAR). Fanatic gun lobbyists and vigilantes plot to blow up the Texas Senate, but are overheard by a homeless bag lady – and Molly’s the only person who believes her

Superb storytelling and gripping suspense once again from the author who puts Patricia Cornwell in the shade.

In the heat of the Texan summer, there are few cool places for the homeless to hide. Cow Lady guards her home under the decking of the creekside restaurant with desperate ferocity, at least safe in the knowledge that no customers use the deck area at night. Until the men with the strange voices arrive one evening and talk of guns and gas.

Cow Lady can’t see why she should do anything about it. What’s anyone ever done for her? Who’d listen? Only the journalist covering the lives of her homeless companions. Molly Cates.

Molly’s also covering the passage of a bill through the State Senate which will legalise the carrying of hidden weapons. She’s against it, but the gun lobby is rich and resourceful. It’s bound to get through. The Senate doesn’t realize that some vigilantes believe that the bill will work against them; and that the right to bear arms is more important than any other, including the right to live.

Chilling, convincing, powerfully entertaining, this is suspense writing at its best.

About this title

Review:

‘UNDER THE BEETLE’S CELLAR is an instant classic in mystery and suspense. The best chiller-thriller of the year.’
James Patterson

‘In UNDER THE BEETLE’S CELLAR, Mary Willis Walker gives us a kidnap story of rare intensity and mounting tension. No, I didn’t steal that from the blurb, the book actually is a superb suspense thriller’
Irish Times

From the Back Cover:

Chilling, convincing, powerfully entertaining, this is suspense writing at its best as crime journalist Molly Cates is dragged into the desperate underworld of the homeless, threatened by vigilantes and brought face to face with the violence in her own past.

In the heat of the Texan summer, there are few cool places for the homeless to hide. Cow Lady guards her patch under the veranda of a creekside restaurant with grim ferocity, at least safe in the knowledge that no customers use the deck area at night. Until one evening, when strange men arrive and talk of guns and gas.

Cow Lady realises that their plot against the State Senate is in deadly earnest, but she can’t see why she should do anything about it. What’s anyone ever done for her? Who’d believe her, anyway? Only the journalist covering the lives of her baglady companions – Molly Cates.

Molly’s also following the passage of a bill which will legalise the carrying of hidden weapons. She’s against it, but the gun lobby is rich and resourceful; it’s bound to get through. The senators don’t know that a faction of extremist vigilantes believe that the bill will work against them, and that the right to bear arms is more important than any other, including the right to live ...

Winner of the Edgar Award for 'The Red Scream', the Agatha Award for 'Zero at the Bone', and the Hammett Prize and Macavity Award for 'Under the Beetle’s Cellar', Mary Willis Walker is one of the most exciting writers to emerge in any genre in recent years. She lives in Texas.

PRAISE FOR MARY WILLIS WALKER

“'Under the Beetle’s Cellar' is an instant classic in mystery and suspense. The best chiller-thriller of the year”
JAMES PATTERSON

“In 'Under the Beetle’s Cellar', Mary Willis Walker gives us a kidnap story of rare intensity and mounting tension ... a superb suspense thriller”
IRISH TIMES

“Molly Cates – the ballsiest and best female protagonist”
KINKY FRIEDMAN

“Nail-biting suspense from the first page, masterfully extended to the last”
KIRKUS REVIEWS

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins Crime
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0002257254
• ISBN 13: 9780002257251
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320