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    Under the Beetle's Cellar

    Written by Mary Willis Walker

    Narrated by Anna Fields

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 19, 2009
    ISBN9780307702586
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    Reviews for Under the Beetle's Cellar

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    • 5/5
      Good and scary
    • 4/5
      We come upon the story here after 11 children and a bus driver have been buried underground for over 40 days inside a school bus. A crazy cult leader has kidnapped them and believes that these children will be the purified lambs that usher in Armageddon on the 50th day. It is the story of the children's experience and the saga of what is going on above ground in the effort to negotiate their release or rescue them. Highly recommended.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed the first Molly Cates mystery, The Red Scream and sought out this second in the series. As a claustrophobe and a reader who detests depiction of child abuse, image my reaction to find that the book centers on the imprisonment of a group of children by a religious sect in a buried school bus. After a few chapters, I put it down, but did get back to it in a few weeks and pushed through it. It’s well written enough, although it’s more of a thriller than a mystery, but I still found the subject matter to be distasteful, so I can’t recommend it. I like Willis’ characterizations and dialogue, and wish there was more from her, but apparently she stopped writing (or getting published, at any rate) after the third installment in the series, which I’ll review at a later date.
    • 4/5
      A good read, with lots of grit and cold reality.It takes an idea of a hostage situation and develops it into a sinister nightmare.Well-crafted, tightly paced, and teeming with geniuine characters.