The Nutting Girl

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A movie is coming to Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts and it will star the most famous actress in the world - 21-year-old Juliana Velvet Norcross. In The Nutting Girl by Fred DeVecca, VelCro as she is known, has been a problem child and the director hires retired private detective Frank Raven to protect her.

Frank has been a blind monk, a police officer for a day, a private detective and now is retired, but operating a local movie theater in the small town. He doesn't want to be hired for the job, but is coaxed by the director Nick Mooney.

He finds VelCro to be more interesting than he thought. While getting to know her, they have some deep spiritual discussions that make Frank a little uncomfortable about his previous life.  It soon becomes time to shoot the movie and two extra large football players, Frank calls Frick and Frack, are hired to be bodyguards.

While Frank is performing with the Morris Dancer troupe for the movie, he glances back at VelCro as she, her friend Sarah and the
two bodyguards are sitting on a fence near the river. Suddenly VelCro, Sarah and one of the bodyguards topple into the raging river. Frank dives into the river to try to save someone. It is Sarah he rescues, but there's no sign of VelCro or her bodyguard. Was VelCro pushed or did she commit suicide?

Sarah and Frank refuse to believe VelCro is dead and they use any means available to them to try to track her movements before and after she fell in the river. Did Frack push her as a photo seems to suggest, but she had a smile on her face when she went into the water. Is that significant?

The trail leads Frank and friends back to where it all began for him. A fascinating study of human emotions and where they lead.