All the Dead Lie Down - Brossura

Walker, Mary Willis

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ISBN 10: 0006511325 ISBN 13: 9780006511328

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 1999

Riassunto

Tremendous new thriller from the award-winning author of UNDER THE BEETLE’S CELLAR and THE RED SCREAM, and once again featuring indomitable Molly Cates as the feisty, funny, flawed heroine.

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 Texas summer, there are few cool places for the homeless to hide. Cow Lady guards her patch with grim ferocity, until one evening, when strange men arrive and talk of guns and gas.
Cow Lady realizes that their plot against the State Senate is in deadly earnest, but she can’t see why she should do anything about it. Who’d believe her, anyway? Only the journalist covering the lives of her bag-lady companions – Molly Cates.
Molly’s also following the passage of a bill which will legalize the carrying of hidden weapons.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...

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Recensione:

‘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 intensisty and mounting tension.’
Irish Times

‘A knockout novel. ’
Publishers Weekly

L'autore:

Mary Willis Walker is one of the most exciting writers to emerge in any genre in recent years. She lives in Austin, Texas.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0006511325
• ISBN 13: 9780006511328
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384