Bottom Feeders
A Novel
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2.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
A page-turning whodunit set in the wilds of a remote movie ranch, Bottom Feeders describes the hapless Hollywood cast and crew that eke out a living working on low-budget fare.
Their ambitious TV movie needs to be made fast and cheap, but a brutal murder grinds production to a halt. An approaching forest fire forces everyone to evacuate. In the confusion not everyone gets out. Eddie is the alcoholic director, Sheila the vulnerable camera assistant, Tom the self-centered actor, and Sondra the spurned sheriff’s deputy. Who will survive?
Death comes sudden and silent. The camouflaged killer’s weapon-of-choice is a high-tech hunting bow capable of firing razor-sharp arrows four hundred feet per second. The mysterious assassin has an agenda. Those left behind must find out what it is and who is behind this bloody slaughter in the fight for their lives.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the outset of screenwriter and director Shepphird's promising debut, a sales executive headed for a conference at California's Lake Arrowhead hits a deer while driving at night on a mountain road. When he gets out of his car, he's shot with an arrow and bludgeoned to death. Cut to down-on-his-luck director Eddie Lyons, who is considering an offer to direct a made-for-TV movie featuring a has-been actress portraying a pioneering schoolteacher in the Old West. Eddie swallows his pride and accepts the job, even after learning that he wasn't the producer's first choice, an ego blow partially softened by his former lover, Sheila, serving as the assistant camerawoman. The low-budget project is scheduled to film in San Bernardino County on a tight schedule, but the pressures of making the deadline are forgotten after members of the cast and crew become the targets of a murderous archer, leaving Eddie and Sheila scrambling to survive. Shepphird maintains suspense right up to the disappointing solution to the murder mystery. Still, thriller fans will be curious to see what he does next.
