Synopses & Reviews
On the heels of her critical and commercial triumph with Under the Beetle's Cellar, Edgar Award -- winning author Mary Willis Walker returns with an emotionally charged double mystery that will leave readers breathless and begging for more.
Mary Willis Walker's first novel, Zero at the Bone, won both the Agatha and Macavity Awards and was nominated for an Edgar. Her second, The Red Scream, won the Edgar Award as Best Novel of 1994. Her third, Under the Beetle's Cellar, won the Hammett Prize, the Macavity Award, and the Agatha Award for 1995. With "All the Dead Lie Down", Willis becomes one of those outstanding crime writers, like Elizabeth George, whose work has joined the ranks of bestselling mainstream fiction.
When true-crime reporter Molly Cates's father died more than twenty-five years ago, his death was ruled a suicide, and Molly's efforts to prove otherwise led to nothing but anguish and the breakup of her family. Now, with access to new information, she is determined to reopen the investigation, but the answers she finds are devastating and leave her with an even more difficult moral dilemma. To make matters worse, while caught up in her own misery, Molly becomes aware of a terrifying plot to kill everyone in the Texas State Legislature -- a conspiracy that only she will be able to stop, if she can get there in time!
As The Philadelphia lnquirer has said, "Walker can push the scary buttons, but she can also be poignant. And funny. And her sense of place is never less than authoritative". Once again, Mary Willis Walker has written a novel no one will be able to put down, as rich in character and emotion as it is in plot and heart-stopping suspense.