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Meat Bees

by Dane Erbach

A summer job turns into a wasp-filled mystery

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A summer job turns into a wasp-filled mystery

Set in the Smoky Mountains, *Meat Bees* brings a creature-horror threat into Scarlett Sutton’s strained summer at her father’s cabin. After taking a job at an outdoor outfitter, she encounters a corpse and becomes entangled in a string of unsolved deaths. When a co-worker disappears, Scarlett and her colleagues begin searching for him themselves, uncovering the role of a swarm of yellow jackets. The setup combines a local investigation with a survival threat, while Scarlett’s effort to protect those close to her gives the danger personal stakes.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Horror readers interested in monsters and creature threats.
  • Readers who enjoy mysteries involving unsolved deaths and amateur investigations.
  • Readers seeking a horror story set in the Smoky Mountains, with family tension alongside the central danger.

Themes

Creature horrorUnsolved deaths and investigationFamily strainProtecting friends and family

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Book overview

Jaws with wasps.


By the time Scarlett Sutton arrives at her dad's cabin in the Smoky Mountains, two locals have already been eaten alive by wasps. Of course, she doesn't know this yet. All Scarlett knows is her mom finally checked herself into a hospital to take care of her mental health, leaving Scarlett alone with her dad all summer.


After he insists that she get a job, Scarlett accepts a position at nearby Stovetop Outfitters, hoping to spend as much time away from him as possible. She doesn't expect to trip over a skeletonized corpse beneath the zip-line during one of her shifts--and definitely doesn't expect to be thrown into a Netflix-style true crime investigation.


The local sheriff's department is so overwhelmed by these unsolved deaths that when one of the Stovetop Outfitters employees disappears next, Scarlett and her co-workers set out to find him on their own. They discover something much more horrifying: a swarm of yellow jackets stripping the meat off his body. Scarlett never signed up to solve a disgusting mystery, but in order to protect her friends and family, she must defeat the mountain's darkness and all these godforsaken wasps.

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