Bill Noel

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2007
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Folly Beach Mystery

1 - Folly (May-2007)
2 - The Pier (Mar-2009)
3 - Washout (Jan-2010)
4 - The Edge (Jan-2011)
5 - The Marsh (Oct-2011)
6 - Ghosts (Jan-2012)
7 - Missing (Jan-2013)
8 - Final Cut (Jan-2014)
9 - First Light (Dec-2014)
10 - Boneyard Beach (Nov-2015)
11 - Dead Center (Oct-2016)
12 - Discord (Jul-2017)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Folly

    A Folly Beach Mystery - 1

    Chris Landrum is about to have it all-an extended vacation, a second home at the beach, and early retirement in his fifties. There's only one glitch: murder is part of the package on the small South Carolina barrier island of Folly Beach, where eccen...

  • The Pier

    A Folly Beach Mystery - 2

    Bill Noels debut novel, Folly, introduced Chris Landrum and his adventures on the small, quirky island of Folly Beach, South Carolina, where he spent an extended vacation, purchased a retirement home, and solved a murder. In this second installment o...

  • Washout

    A Folly Beach Mystery - 3

    A routine trip to the local hardware store propels Chris Landrum into a world of revenge, hate, and murder -- hardly the peaceful outcome he had planned for his retirement on the small island of Folly Beach, South Carolina. Chris learned during his f...

  • The Edge

    A Folly Beach Mystery - 4

    AFTER A MURDER VICTIM IS DISCOVERED ON FOLLY BEACH, A RETIREE AND HIS MISFIT FRIENDS MUST FIND THE KILLER BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. After Chris Landrum survives the first hurricane to hit Folly Beach, South Carolina, during this century, he breathes wha...

  • The Marsh

    A Folly Beach Mystery - 5

    Chris Landrums morning has already started on a down note, as he stands in a cemetery listening to the eulogy for a friend. But his entire day deteriorates rapidly when he hears that a murder victim has been found in the marsh behind his retirement h...

  • Ghosts

    A Folly Beach Mystery - 6

    Chris Landrums idyllic life of retirement on the South Carolina barrier island of Folly Beach just got turned upside down. After more than two decades, his ex-wife, Joan, calls to wish him a merry Christmas. He can tell she wants to tell him somethin...

  • Missing

    A Folly Beach Mystery - 7

    Sixty-year-old retiree Chris Landrum has simple needs: stay healthy, avoid sunburns, and steer clear of vacationers on the small South Carolina island where he hopes to live out his remaining years. But when local teenager Samuel Perkins pulls Chr...

  • Final Cut

    A Folly Beach Mystery - 8

    When a movie production entourage invades Chris Landrums 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 films directo...

  • First Light

    A Folly Beach Mystery - 9

    Early mornings used to be Chris Landrums favorite time on the small South Carolina island he calls homeuntil a stranger joins him along a lonely stretch of road. After a car suddenly barrels toward them in the predawn darkness and slams the stranger ...



  • Boneyard Beach

    A Folly Beach Mystery - 10

    A knock on Chris Landrum's retirement cottage door proves that he doesn't have to leave home to find trouble. His friend, Mel Evans, a marsh tour-boat captain, arrives to tell Chris that there might be a little problem. Chris is shocked to hear that ...

  • Silent Night

    Chris Landrum is dragged out of peaceful retirement when the theft of a priceless, hand-carved figurine from a church’s nativity scene threatens to suck the spirit of Christmas out of Folly Beach. If that's not bad enough, pieces of valuable jewelr...

  • Dead Center

    A Folly Beach Mystery - 11

    Chris Landrum’s world is turned upside down when he stumbles on a body of a killer for hire. Chris’s friends on the laid-back, peaceful South Carolina island are convinced they know who the hit man was sent to kill, and ask the retired bureaucrat...

  • Discord

    A Folly Beach Mystery - 12

    Chris Landrum’s trip to Nashville to visit his best friend Charles hits a sour note when they learn of the death of the agent who had persuaded Heather, Charles’s girlfriend, to move to Music City to seek fame and fortune as a singer. Tagging alo...

  • The Folly Beach Mystery Collection

    For the first time, three novels in the award-winning Folly Beach Mystery series by best-selling author Bill Noel are presented in one box set. Enjoy: BONEYARD BEACH Chris Landrum’s peaceful retirement on Folly Beach, South Carolina, is thrown into...

  • Dark Horse

    An accidental drug overdose is ruled the cause of the death of the daughter of Chris Landrum’s neighbor. The young woman’s father, a retired police detective, had accused Chris of murder days after he’d arrived on Folly Beach a decade ago, and ...

  • Joy

    Chris Landrum and his friend Barbara Deanelli's search for shark teeth abruptly changes directions when they discover a woman at water's edge clinging to a surfboard. How she got there was a mystery-a mystery compounded when she doesn't remember her ...

  • The Folly Beach Mystery Collection II

    Once again, three novels in the award-winning Folly Beach Mystery series by best-selling author Bill Noel are presented in one collection. Enjoy. DISCORDChris Landrum's trip to Nashville to visit his best friend Charles hits a sour note when they ...

  • No Joke

    Four aging comedians deliver anything but laughs when they descend upon Folly Beach, a small, laid-back barrier island near Charleston, South Carolina. Chris Landrum’s introduction to the newcomers is when he averts disaster by escorting one of ...

  • Relic

    On an early-morning walk through the nature preserve on the east end of Folly Beach on their way to photograph the iconic Morris Island Lighthouse, Chris Landrum and his friend Charles Fowler's peaceful morning takes an abrupt turn. They encounter...



  • Faith

    Christmas on South Carolina's Folly Beach is a time for festivities, families, friendship, fellowship, and reflection. When a fire ruled intentionally set leaves residents of five apartments homeless days before the holiday, retired bureaucrat Chris ...

  • The Folly Beach Mystery Collection III

    Three more novels in the award-winning Folly Beach Mystery series by best-selling author Bill Noel are presented in one collection. NO JOKEFour aging comedians deliver anything but laughs when they descend upon Folly Beach, a small, laid-back barrier...

  • Tipping Point

    A peaceful kayak trip through the marsh suddenly turns terrifying for Chris Landrum and his friend, Charles Fowler, when a single-engine airplane plummets toward their watercraft. After coming inches from certain death, the kayakers' heroic efforts s...

  • Sea Fog

    Halloween is traditionally filled with ghosts, goblins, and ghouls but this year the holiday brings something more sinister to the small South Carolina barrier island of Folly Beach. The popular fall holiday has never been a favorite of retired burea...

  • Mosquito Beach

    An early-morning phone call from a friend asking Chris Landrum if he'd heard anything about a skeleton discovered on Mosquito Beach, an African American enclave fewer than a handful of miles from Chris's home on Folly Beach, South Carolina, soon embr...

  • Pretty Paper

    The theft of a Rolex worth more than most new vehicles begins a series of burglaries casting a dark shadow on the Christmas season for Folly Beach, the small South Carolina barrier island. The number of suspects drastically increases when Mackey's Mi...

  • Adrift

    There were numerous better ways for retiree Chris Landrum to begin his day than to listen to a traumatized friend Virgil DeBonnet telling him how he found a body with a knife sticking out his back and floating in a small boat less than a half mile fr...

  • Overkill

    With Halloween rapidly approaching, retired bureaucrat Chris Landrum would like nothing more than for his least favorite holiday to skip his adopted hometown of Folly Beach, South Carolina. The hopes of a quiet October drifts away on the tide when Ch...

  • Midnight

    A pleasant walk along the coast on Folly Beach, South Carolina, thrusts retiree Chris Landrum and his friend Charles Fowler into investigating a death that police are convinced was an unfortunate accident. Their resolve to continue sticking their nos...

  • The Folly Beach Christmas Mystery Collection

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    SILENT NIGHT  —  JOY  —  FAITH A FOLLY BEACH CHRISTMAS MYSTERY COLLECTIONWelcome to Christmas on Folly Beach. Along with seasonal festivities, don't be surprised if you stumble on a mystery, or two, or who knows h...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bill Noel has published 29 books.

Bill Noel does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Midnight, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Bill Noel, Folly, was published in May 2007.

Yes. Bill Noel has 1 series.
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