El manuscrito

When Hurricane Leo deviates from its planned course to head towards Camino Island, off the coast of Florida, most of its inhabitants decide to leave the island. Only a small group of the irreducible choose to stay, including Bruce Cable, the owner of the Bay Books bookstore. The hurricane advances destroying everything and leaving collapsed houses, destroyed hotels and shops, flooded streets and a dozen dead. One of the deceased is Nelson Kerr, Bruce's friend and author of thrillers. But evidence suggests that the storm was not the cause of Nelson's death: the victim received numerous suspicious blows to the head. Who would want to kill Nelson? The local police are overwhelmed by the effects of the hurricane and are not in a position to deal with the case. But Bruce begins to wonder if some dark characters in his friend's novels could be more real than fictional. And somewhere on Nelson's computer is the manuscript of his new novel. Is there, in black on white, the key to the case? Bruce begins to investigate, and what he uncovers between his pages is more shocking than any of Nelson's plot twists... and far more dangerous.