Lost: A Folly Beach Mystery

by Bill Noel

Over the years, retired bureaucrat Chris Landrum has stumbled across several murders on his adopted island of Folly Beach, South Carolina, but nothing prepared him for a body falling into his arms at his back door in the middle of the night. To intensify and compound the mystery even more, Chris learns the dead man owned Chris’s cottage before selling it to him more than thirteen years ago. Why had the man Chris had never met appeared at his door carrying a pry bar and a key with Chris’s address on the keyring? And even more frightening, who killed him before he could make his intentions known?

With the police at a loss, it was up to Chris, his best friend Charles Fowler, and Chris’s neighbor, a retired police detective who had accused Chris on more than one occasion as being a murderer, to catch the killer before Chris becomes his latest victim.

332 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 1, 2026

Reviews

[Brenda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bill Noel’s Folly Beach mystery books are so entertaining and are page turners. This was another great book!
Enjoy how Noel takes readers around Folly Beach and the many restaurants. Since FB is one of our favorite places, I envision exactly where the book characters live, work, play, and walk. I can even image some familiar FB faces in his book characters.

[Virginia Wellington · Rating 5 out of 5]

AL

I know Bill Noel wrote this and all the other books that take place on Folly Beach. My husband and I have read all of them.

We have vacationed at Folly Beach many times and walked from one end of the beach to the other. Ate at the restaurants in his books, stayed at the hotel, and went into Charleston on occasion to enjoy the history.

We have never been so involved in a book that we feel we know the characters and the area to the point we vacation in that beautiful, colorful place called Folly Beach!

Anxiously waiting on next adventure at Folly Beach, Mr. Noel…


Wayne and Ginny Wellington
North Carolina

[Cathy Deford · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bill Noel Has Knocked It Out Of The Park!

I have loved all of the Folly Beach mysteries, but "Lost" takes us to the next level. This one has it all: intrigue, history, action, emotion, etc. I laughed out loud and cried a few tears.
Reading this book felt like spending time with great friends and catching up on their lives. I highly recommend this read!

[Helen Plunger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always a good time to.visit Folly Beach

I am never disappointed when a Bill Noel book appears in my reading list. There is never a shortage of mysteries, murder, humor and good times when Chris and Charles start investigating!

[Patti St · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always a pleasure

to read Bill Noel's Folly Island stories. This was another good one as we revisited Chris, Charles, and their friends who play detective together trying to solve the latest murders.

[Me · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent Read

I have read almost all of Bill Noel’s novels and I am looking forward to reading the others. Keep them coming.