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Walker Mary Willis
Zero at the Bone
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Katherine Driscoll is just three weeks away from disaster: foreclosure on her home and business, even the sale of her beloved dog. She has no hope of raising the $91,000 she so desperately needs--until the father she hasn't seen for thirty years writes to her, offering her enough money to solve her problems...if she will do one thing in return. But Katherine may never learn what that is. When she arrives in Austin, she is hours too late: her father has died in a bizarre accident. As she sifts through the cryptic notes he left behind, she finds herself caught up in terrible family secrets--and a deadly illicit trade. The more she learns, the more determined she becomes to prove her father's death was no accident. In doing so, Katherine will make a bitter enemy--one desperate enough to kill...and perhaps, kill again.
All the Dead Lie Down
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When crime reporter Molly Cates’s father died more than twenty-five years ago, the case was ruled a suicide, and Molly’s efforts to prove otherwise led to nothing but anguish and the breakup of her family. But now new information has come her way and she reopens the investigation–and a rush of old wounds–with a vengeance. Soon the personal becomes dangerously political as Molly’s search for the truth leads her from the stately halls of Texas government to the mean streets of Austin’s down-and-out–and ultimately to a moral dilemma she never could have anticipated.
Quotations from Mother Goose and Macbeth (as well as the Emily Dickinson snippet of the title) provide the chapter headings in this engaging novel of suspense. The apparent peculiarity of such juxtaposition brings home the brutality of those childhood rhymes and the dangers of obsession and revenge. Both serve Mary Willis Walker's purpose well in setting up this tightly constructed mystery in which investigative journalist Molly Cates's own obsession with her father's untimely death from 30 years before gets mixed up in a current and far more dangerous scheme to release chemical gases into the Senate chamber of the Texas Capitol. The two plots, the first a traditional mystery, the second more a tale of suspense, are unconnected except for Cates's involvement; she is obviously central to one and initially only tangential to the other. Such a device would have proved unwieldy in less skillful hands, but in Walker's case the disparate strands are brought together beautifully, and Cates has a suitable sense of her own fallibility and the difficulty of harboring hate for the better part of a generation. Walker's previous three novels have won six mystery-writers awards among them. All the Dead Lie Down is solid enough to continue the tradition set by the others. Within it there is much to relish: sensitive consideration of homelessness, thought-provoking questions about gun control, and a wry appreciation for the charm and arrogance of the Lone Star State and its citizens ("Texans do not scrimp on stars."). Indeed, Walker's sense of place--from Lubbock's dust and dry desolation to Austin's trendiness and political maneuvering--is sure and confident. There are moments when the worst of the perpetrators of the chemical weapons scare is portrayed simplistically, but this is more than made up for by the complexity of the other characters: the vagrants who discover the danger as well as the ghosts, both past and present, who haunt Molly in her investigations of her father's past. An excellent read, for even the most jaded of mystery lovers.
Under the Beetle's Cellar
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Kidnapped by a cult of secretive and dangerous religious extremists calling themselves the Hearth Nazarenes, Vietnam vet Walter Demming, an Austin, Texas school bus driver, and eleven of his young charges have been held underground in the cult's highly-fortified compound for forty-six days. The team of federal negotiators assigned to the case makes little progress, and little by little all hope of rescuing the hostages ebbs away. Under The Beetle's Cellar Two years prior to the school bus hijacking, Molly Cates, crime reporter for the Lone Star Monthly, had the bad luck to interview the leader of the fanatical cult, Samuel Mordecai -- an interview straight from the lower reaches of Hell. Mordecai was fascinatingly charismatic, and Molly left the interview having felt trapped, abused and mesmerized by a madman who kept her literally pinned to her chair while he ranted on about his apocalyptic visions for the demise of mankind. The experience left Molly feeling haunted, but as time passes and hope for the children dims, it seems Molly is the only one with enough information about the maniacal Mordecai to serve as the conduit between him and the hostage negotiators. Culminating in an explosive psychological confrontation so harrowing, you'll race to the terrifying finish, Under The Beetle's Cellar is a bone-chilling tale tipped from today's headlines, and more frightening than our worst nightmares.
La Loi des morts
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Arrest logs - Pensacola News Journal
Pensacola News Journal, FL - May 22, 2009
Arrest logs assault/battery on a law enforcement officer, possession of a short-barreled weapon/machine gun, resisting a law enforcement officer with violence, narcotics violation, use/possession of drug paraphernalia. o Willis Lee Walker, 23,
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What Are They Reading for Fun?
School Library Journal - May 19, 2009
They enjoy Alvin Schwartz's “Scary Stories” series (HarperCollins) and novels by Mary Downing Hahn, especially The Old Willis Place (Clarion, 2004). Kevin O'Malley, whose books do not stay on the shelves, will be visiting us in June.
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School by school - Vicksburg Post
Vicksburg Post, MS - May 20, 2009
School by school Maggie Waites, Katrinka Wayne, Caroline Webb and Allie Willis. • Second-graders who made First Communion at St. Paul Catholic Church were Mattie Carlyle Derivaux, Brantlee Richards, Molly Starnes, Maddie Stokes, Anna Turner and Jacob Waisner.
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PREP SPORTS WRAPS - MAY 19 - Mirror
Mirror, MI - May 20, 2009
PREP SPORTS WRAPS - MAY 19Country Day sophomore Dartis Willis was a double winner in the field events, taking both the high jump (6-feet, 2-inches) and long jump (21-feet, 3.25-inches) in meet record scores. Sophomore teammate Dave Brown won the discus with a toss of 121-feet,
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Aiken Tech graduation list - Aiken Standard (subscription)
Aiken Standard (subscription), SC - May 10, 2009
Aiken Tech graduation list Jonathan Lyle Derrick, Virginia Elizabeth Dunn, Ruth Barbee Green, Megan Nell Hallman, Mary Ann Hardison, Nicole Holloman, Daniel Jonas Hynes, Brett Allen Leek, Onesimus Josiah Lovett, Lyndsy Nicole McLendon, Richard Earl Meigs, Walker C. Mobley,
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