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Susan M. Boyer

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Susan M. Boyer
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
GenreMystery
Notable awardsDaphne du Maurier Award
2012
Agatha Award
2013
Website
susanmboyer.com

Susan M. Boyer is a USA Today bestselling author of mystery novels set in the American South.

Honors and awards

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Boyer won a Romance Writers of America Daphne du Maurier award in 2012[1][2] and an Agatha Award for Best First Novel in 2013[3][4][5] for her debut novel, Lowcountry Boil. That title was also nominated for a Macavity Award in 2013.[6]

Boyer's third novel, Lowcountry Boneyard, was a Spring 2015 Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Okra Pick.[7]

The first novel in Boyer's Carolina Tales Series, Big Trouble on Sullivan's Island, won the 2024 Independent Publisher Book Awards silver medal for Southeast Regional Fiction[8] and was a 2024 finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award in the category of Regional Fiction: Southeast.[9]

Her work has also been nominated for the Pat Conroy Beach Music Mystery Prize,[10] and the Southern Book Prize in Mystery & Detective Fiction.[11]

Bibliography

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The Liz Talbot Mystery Series

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Lowcountry Boil (2012)[12]

Lowcountry Bombshell (2013)[13]

Lowcountry Boneyard (2015)[14]

Lowcountry Bordello (2015)[15]

Lowcountry Book Club (2016)

Lowcountry Bonfire (2017)[16]

Lowcountry Bookshop (2018)[17]

Lowcountry Boomerang (2019)[18]

Lowcountry Boondoggle (2020)[19]

Lowcountry Boughs of Holly (2020)[20]

Postcards from Stella Maris (2022)[21]

Lowcountry Getaway (2022)[22]

The Carolina Tales Series

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Big Trouble on Sullivan's Island (2023)[23]

Beginnings - The Sullivan's Island Supper Club (2024)[24]

The Sullivan's Island Supper Club (2024)[25]

Personal life

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Boyer enjoys beaches, Southern food, and small Southern towns.[26] She currently lives in Greenville, in South Carolina[27] with her husband.

References

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  1. ^ "Books in Brief: Cinders, Dallas 1963, Lowcountry Bombshell". www.buffaloNews.com. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
  2. ^ "2012 Daphne Unpublished Contest Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016.
  3. ^ Oline Cogdill. "Mystery Scene". Retrieved January 23, 2016.
  4. ^ "Mystery Fanfare". May 4, 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
  5. ^ "N.C. author wins an Agatha". Retrieved January 23, 2016.
  6. ^ "Macavity Awards". Mystery Readers International. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
  7. ^ "The Spring 2015 SIBA Okra Picks!". Retrieved May 20, 2016.
  8. ^ Roberts, Allison (October 2, 2024). "2024 Medalists". Independent Publisher Book Awards. Retrieved October 30, 2024.
  9. ^ "18th Annual Finalists | National Indie Excellence Awards | California". indie-excellence. Retrieved October 30, 2024.
  10. ^ "The 2016 Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize". Authors 'Round the South. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  11. ^ SP. "The 2017 Southern Book Prize Finalists Announced". www.sibaweb.com. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
  12. ^ "Goodreads". Goodreads. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
  13. ^ "Goodreads". Goodreads. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
  14. ^ "Lowcountry Boneyard (Liz Talbot Mystery, #3)". Goodreads. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
  15. ^ "Lowcountry Bordello". GoodReads.
  16. ^ "Lowcountry Bonfire". goodreads.com.
  17. ^ "Lowcountry Bookshop (Liz Talbot Mystery #7)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  18. ^ "Lowcountry Boomerang (Liz Talbot Mystery #8)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  19. ^ "Lowcountry Boondoggle (Liz Talbot Mystery #9)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  20. ^ "Lowcountry Boughs of Holly (Liz Talbot Mystery, #10)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  21. ^ "Postcards From Stella Maris: Five Liz Talbot Short Stor…". Goodreads. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
  22. ^ "Lowcountry Getaway (Liz Talbot Mystery, #11)". Goodreads. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
  23. ^ "Goodreads". Goodreads. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
  24. ^ "Beginnings - The Sullivan's Island Supper Club (Carolin…". Goodreads. Retrieved October 30, 2024.
  25. ^ "The Sullivan's Island Supper Club (Carolina Tales, #3)". Goodreads. Retrieved October 30, 2024.
  26. ^ "Susan M. Boyer is the Agatha Award Winning and USA Today Bestselling Author of the Liz Talbot Mystery series". Susan M. Boyer. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
  27. ^ "Book Launch: Greenville Mystery Author Susan M. Boyer - Greenville Journal". Greenville Journal. Archived from the original on May 26, 2020. Retrieved July 17, 2017.