Bill Noel Books in Order

Chris Landrum heads to Folly Beach for an extended break and quickly falls in with a quirky group of locals. When he finds a murdered developer on the beach, his quiet escape turns into a dangerous amateur investigation.

Settled into retirement at last, Chris Landrum hopes Folly Beach will calm down. Instead, a suspicious death near the pier and another body force Chris and Charles to dig into a case the police may be reading all wrong.

A trip to the hardware store pulls Chris into a nasty case of threats, cryptic warnings, and murder. When his friend Larry appears to be the killer's target, Chris and his oddball allies have to move fast.

After surviving a hurricane, Chris discovers an acquaintance dead with an arrow through his heart. The trail leads through a strange boardinghouse, a country music bar, and a growing fear that one of his friends could be next.

On the day of a friend's funeral, Chris hears that a murder victim has been found in the marsh behind his home. When police fix on one of Chris's friends, he and his mismatched crew start asking dangerous questions.

A Christmas call from Chris's ex-wife pulls him into an investigation far beyond Folly Beach. As Charles fumbles through a side case back home, old history, fresh murder, and uneasy forgiveness start to collide.

When a local teen says he witnessed a beauty queen being kidnapped off the beach, Chris is not sure what to believe. Then bodies start turning up, and soon Charles may be in a killer's sights.

A movie production lands on Folly Beach and turns the island upside down. When the film's director dies on a fishing trip, Chris suspects the drama off camera may be deadlier than anything being filmed.

Chris's peaceful dawn routine ends when a stranger beside him is struck dead by a speeding car. A second murder points him toward a new church and a preacher whose past may hide more than faith.

A knock at Chris Landrum's cottage door pulls him into another island mystery with danger close to home. As suspicion spreads through Folly Beach, Chris and his friends have to sort truth from rumor before more lives are wrecked.

Chris stumbles across the body of a hired killer and suddenly everyone around him has theories about the intended target. An intruder, a shaky relationship, and a town full of secrets put him squarely in another murderer's path.

A stolen figurine from a church nativity scene threatens to ruin Christmas on Folly Beach. With porch thefts piling up too, Chris and Charles chase a mystery that grows stranger by the day.

A trip to Nashville goes bad when Charles's girlfriend is accused of murdering the music agent who lured her there. Chris has to untangle a case that stretches from Tennessee clubs back to Folly Beach.

A young woman's death is ruled an overdose, but Chris is not convinced the story is that simple. As local politics heat up, he digs into a case that hits uncomfortably close to home.

Just before Christmas, Chris and Barbara find a woman clinging to a surfboard in freezing water, with no memory of who she is or who tried to kill her. While Chris investigates, the island is also searching for Dude's missing dog.

Four aging comedians blow into Folly Beach bringing confusion, old secrets, and at least one dead body. Chris and his friends have to decide what is misdirection, what is memory loss, and what is murder.

Days before Christmas, an intentional fire leaves several Folly Beach residents homeless. Chris and Charles help the victims while trying to work out who set the blaze, and whether one of the displaced neighbors is hiding the truth.

A sunrise walk to photograph the Morris Island Lighthouse turns grim when Chris and Charles meet a woman whose relic-hunting husband ends up murdered. Ghost stories, buried treasure, and too many suspects make this one especially tricky.

This omnibus gathers three holiday-set Folly Beach mysteries: Silent Night, Joy, and Faith. It is a festive run of thefts, danger, and island sleuthing with Chris Landrum and his usual crew.

Chris never cared for Halloween, but Charles talks him into visiting a charity haunted house anyway. There they find a real corpse, and the holiday fun turns into a murder case full of odd suspects and rising danger.

A calm kayak trip turns terrifying when a small plane nearly crashes on top of Chris and Charles. Once they learn the pilot was poisoned, they have to find out who the real target was before the case turns even deadlier.

A skeleton found at Mosquito Beach pulls Chris into a mystery that reaches back more than sixty years. With two more deaths and a friend in danger, he has to navigate a close-knit community where trust does not come easily.

The theft of an expensive Rolex kicks off a string of Christmas burglaries on Folly Beach. When a visiting troupe of singers and actors arrives at the same time, Chris and Charles cannot ignore the coincidence.

Virgil DeBonnet finds a man floating in a small boat with a knife in his back and drags Chris into the mess. As suspects pile up and another victim falls, Chris realizes the killer is not finished yet.

A death on a coastal walk looks like an accident, until a second worker connected to the same beachfront construction job dies too. Chris and Charles keep digging while the police lag behind, and the risk keeps climbing.

Halloween brings a conference of psychics, mediums, and witches to Folly Beach, then a man is shot practically beside Chris. With suspects ranging from annoyed locals to visiting fortune tellers, Chris has to wonder if he was the real target.

A bookstore release party is interrupted by news of a murder on nearby Bowen Island. Chris and Charles soon suspect the killing is tied to an old theft of gold and jewels, and that treasure hunters may kill again.

An early morning call tells Chris that an acquaintance has been murdered, and Charles is already ready to investigate. When a second killing points toward a weekly poker game, the pair find themselves facing a very personal double mystery.

In the middle of the night, a dying man collapses into Chris's arms at his back door. The victim once owned Chris's cottage, and the clues he carried make the mystery feel uncomfortably personal from the start.