Final Cut
A Folly Beach Mystery
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The near disaster in Cal’s wasn’t the first bolt of lightning from the storm Final Cut. The original director, Cesar Ramon, had drowned before the first pixel of the movie was captured. The ill-fated director, along with eight members of the film’s entourage, had gone deep-sea fishing off the coast near Isle of Palms, just north of Folly, when they were trapped in a horrific storm. …
Passengers on the doomed fishing excursion included two actors, the girlfriend of one of them, the director, two assistant directors, and two of the project’s financers. Mother Nature unleashed the storm approximately an hour into the outing. A massive wave caught the boat broadside, and before anyone could put together a string of profanities, the craft had capsized. Everyone was hurled into the tempestuous waters. All but the director had survived.
The storm moved on as quickly as it had arrived. … The director had taken his first and last fishing trip. No one on the boat was certain how he or she had survived, and no one was certain why Ramon hadn’t. However, everyone agreed that it was a terrible accident and that they were lucky to be alive.
I doubted that anyone who survived the storm suspected that it was an omen of things to come.
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When a movie production entourage invades Chris Landrum’s close-knit South Carolina island community, he is among the first in an excited crowd who gather to watch the filming. Unfortunately, it is not long before tragedy strikes and the film’s director drowns while on a fishing expedition. But when one of Chris’s friends barely escapes death in an accident on the set one day, Chris becomes convinced the accident is no accident at all.
As fear replaces anticipation on Folly Beach, Chris and his close friend Charles—a self-anointed private detective—embark on an investigation. They get to know members of the movie’s entourage and soon suspect one of the actors might be playing more than the role of a killer. Immersed in determining why the movie set is plagued with accidents as well as dealing with their own personal problems, Chris and Charles are just as surprised as everyone else when a fisherman catches the one he wishes had gotten away—the corpse of one of the movie’s stars.
Now Chris must face what could be the final minutes of his life when he learns that nothing is what it appears to be in the magical world of the movies.
About the Author
Bill Noel is the author of the popular Folly Beach Mystery series, which includes the titles Folly, The Pier, Washout, The Edge, The Marsh, Ghosts, and Missing. He is a fine arts photographer and retired university administrator. Bill lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife, Susan.