Fever Jubilee

In the sweltering summer of 1989, the coastal town of Port Mercy drowns in its annual Carnival of Tides—a week of masks, liquor, and forgotten sins. When a state prison inmate is found gutted inside a float warehouse, two investigations collide: one official, one obsidian. As retired detective Frankie Mears digs into the death of a snitch named Ellis Troy, he uncovers not a single killer, but a carnival cult that turns collective ecstasy into ritual murder. Each profile he builds points to the same void—ordinary people who, under the spell of drums and dusk, become apostles of a dark mercy. The狂欢节 becomes a stage where God's absent shadow is painted in blood.