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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 thirteen 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 po ...more

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	Lowcountry Boil (Liz Talbot Mystery #1) 3.99 avg rating — 8,186 ratings — published 2012 — 22 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 (Liz Talbot Mystery #2) 4.10 avg rating — 4,977 ratings — published 2013 — 12 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) 4.28 avg rating — 4,133 ratings — published 2015 — 14 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) 4.18 avg rating — 3,682 ratings — published 2016 — 12 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) 4.27 avg rating — 3,552 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Big Trouble on Sullivan's Island (Carolina Tales, #1) 4.33 avg rating — 3,285 ratings — published 2023	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) 4.24 avg rating — 3,030 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) 4.27 avg rating — 2,707 ratings — published 2018 — 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 Boughs of Holly (Liz Talbot Mystery #10) 4.46 avg rating — 2,190 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 Boomerang (Liz Talbot Mystery #8) 4.35 avg rating — 2,229 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

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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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“This was where I’d always found peace. The ocean was my drug of choice.”
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What shall we read in March, 2021? Books published after 1980.

Lowcountry Boil, by Susan M. Boyer

14 votes 26.9%

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

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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

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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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