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Susan M. Boyer

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in Faith, NC, The United States

February 12

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Mystery, Romance, Humor and Comedy

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Susan M. Boyer is the USA Today bestselling author of twelve novels. Her debut novel, Lowcountry Boil, won the 2012 Agatha Award for Best First Novel, the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense, and garnered several other award nominations. Subsequent books have been nominated for various honors, including Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Okra Picks, the 2016 Pat Conroy Beach Music Mystery Prize, and the 2017 Southern Book Prize in Mystery & Detective Fiction.

Susan loves beaches, Southern food, and small towns where everyone knows everyone, and everyone has crazy relatives. You’ll find all of the above in her novels. She and her husband call Greenville, SC, home and visit the Carolina coast as often as poss ...more

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	Lowcountry Boil (A Liz Talbot Mystery, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,484 ratings — published 2012 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lowcountry Bombshell (A Liz Talbot Mystery, #2) 4.11 avg rating — 3,979 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lowcountry Boneyard (Liz Talbot Mystery, #3) 4.29 avg rating — 3,197 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lowcountry Book Club (Liz Talbot Mystery #5) 4.19 avg rating — 2,789 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lowcountry Bordello (Liz Talbot Mystery #4) 4.28 avg rating — 2,716 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lowcountry Bonfire (Liz Talbot Mystery #6) 4.26 avg rating — 2,161 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lowcountry Bookshop (Liz Talbot Mystery #7) 4.28 avg rating — 2,085 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lowcountry Boomerang (Liz Talbot Mystery #8) 4.37 avg rating — 1,701 ratings — published 2019 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lowcountry Boughs of Holly (Liz Talbot Mystery, #10) 4.50 avg rating — 1,590 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lowcountry Boondoggle (Liz Talbot Mystery #9) 4.43 avg rating — 1,533 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Big Trouble on Sullivan’s Island

I’m thrilled to share that my newest novel, Big Trouble on Sullivan’s Island, will be released on April 11.

Y’all–this is the first book in a brand new “un-series.” What on earth is an “un-series,” you might well ask? Well, Carolina Tales is a series of loosely collected stand-alone novels about a group of multi-generational Southern women who face what life throws at them together. One of the sist

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The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

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“Colleen appeared on the loveseat. “Stay.” “I’m staying, all right?” I leaned forward. “Would you please find Gram? Find out what happened.” Colleen turned transparent. “Can’t.” Her voice echoed. “Why are you here if you can’t help?” I shouted. “Merry.” The whisper was so loud it filled the room. “What”
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“and gravy and baked apples.” That’s my mamma—no problem is so bad a little gravy won’t cure it.”
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“deadbolt. With that mystery solved, I retraced my steps,”
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What shall we read in March, 2021? Books published after 1980.

Lowcountry Boil, by Susan M. Boyer

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The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had, by Kristin Levine Amy Engel

13 votes 25.0%

Call Your Daughter Home, by Deb Spera

9 votes 17.3%

Refuge: A Novel, by Dot Jackson

9 votes 17.3%

The Familiar Dark, by Amy Engel

4 votes 7.7%

Shiner, by Amy Jo Burns

3 votes 5.8%

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“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities, choices

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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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“If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.”
― John D. MacDonald

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“Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: southern-writers

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“I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

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