num_pages: 339
description: For forty-six days, bus driver Walter Demming and eleven schoolchildren have been buried underground, held captive in the fortified compound of a fundamentalist cult. Deprived of daylight, fresh air and contact with the outside world, they endure the terrifying rants of the cult's leader, the charismatic Samuel Mordecai. He joyfully predicts the arrival of Armageddon - in exactly five days' time. All attempts at negotiations have failed. Enter tenacious crime reporter Molly Cates, the only journalist ever to have interviewed Mordecai. It was the worst assignment of her life - until this one. She has gained his trust before, and she must try again. But this time the stakes are impossibly high. And she has just five days...
language: English
title: Under the Beetle's Cellar
titlecomplete: Under the Beetle's Cellar (Molly Cates, #2)
genres: Mystery, Adult Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 833
series: Molly Cates
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Hammett Prize, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Martin Beck Award
publisher: Crimeline