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Book Review of A Maiden's Grave

A Maiden's Grave
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8 deaf girls and their teachers are pulled off a school bus along a windswept Kansas road. They are hel hostage in an abandoned slaughterhouse by escpared murderer Lou Handy and 2 fellow inmates. They threaten to kill 1 hostage an hour unless their demands are met.

Called to the scene is Arthur Potter, the FBI's senoir hostage negotiator, who meets in Lou Handy the toughest adversary of his career. As Potter struggles to outwit Handy, hostage Melanie Charrol takes on the killers in a deperate effort to save her students.

The clock is ticking as a terrifying game of cat and mouse begins.....