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This page lists novels that feature the investigative reporter Molly Cates.

The Red Scream

Mary Willis Walker

1994

A Molly Cates novel.

"Eleven years ago, women driving on the desert interstates were terrified by the thought of breaking down and falling victim to the Texas Scalper. But now he’s safely behind bars, and one-time barber Louie Bronk is sentenced to die within the week for his final and most famous murder – that of Austin socialite Tiny McFarland. Investigative reporter Molly Cates has just published Sweating Blood, the Louie Bronk story. So why is Tiny’s husband Charlie trying to bribe her to stay off the final episode – the actual execution? Did Bronk confess to something he didn’t do? Should he be executed at all? Time is running out. And then the copycat murders begin."

Under the Beetle's Cellar

Mary Willis Walker

1995

A Molly Cates novel.

"Eleven Texan schoolchildren and their bus driver are captured by a fundamentalist cult, taken to a fortified compound and buried underground, kept alive but only just. Negotiations lead nowhere. Enter Molly Cates, tenacious crime writer with the inside track on the cult leader. But time is running out… Claustrophobic terror alternates with frenzied investigations as the sect’s deadline approaches. Post-Waco, post-Oklahoma, the nature of cults is explored to its grim, unrelenting limits in this terrifically paced novel of suspense."

All the Dead Lie Down

Mary Willis Walker

1998

A Molly Cates novel.

"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."