Susan M. Boyer

American author

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

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]

Her work has also been nominated for the Pat Conroy Beach Music Mystery Prize,[8] and the Southern Book Prize in Mystery & Detective Fiction.[9]

Bibliography

The Liz Talbot Mystery Series

Lowcountry Boil (2012)[10]

Lowcountry Bombshell (2013)[11]

Lowcountry Boneyard (2015)[12]

Lowcountry Bordello (2015)[13]

Lowcountry Book Club (2016)

Lowcountry Bonfire (2017)[14]

Lowcountry Bookshop (2018)[15]

Lowcountry Boomerang (2019)[16]

Lowcountry Boondoggle (2020)[17]

Lowcountry Boughs of Holly (2020)[18]

Postcards from Stella Maris (2022)[19]

Lowcountry Getaway (2022)[20]

The Carolina Tales Series

Big Trouble on Sullivan's Island (2023)[21]

Personal life

Boyer enjoys beaches, Southern food, and small Southern towns.[22] She currently lives in Greenville, in South Carolina[23] with her husband.

References

  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 ^ "2012 Daphne Unpublished Contest Results" (PDF).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. ^ "The 2016 Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize". Authors 'Round the South. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  9. ^ SP. "The 2017 Southern Book Prize Finalists Announced". www.sibaweb.com. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
  10. ^ "Goodreads". Goodreads. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
  11. ^ "Goodreads". Goodreads. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
  12. ^ "Lowcountry Boneyard (Liz Talbot Mystery, #3)". Goodreads. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
  13. ^ "Lowcountry Bordello". GoodReads.
  14. ^ "Lowcountry Bonfire". goodreads.com.
  15. ^ "Lowcountry Bookshop (Liz Talbot Mystery #7)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  16. ^ "Lowcountry Boomerang (Liz Talbot Mystery #8)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  17. ^ "Lowcountry Boondoggle (Liz Talbot Mystery #9)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  18. ^ "Lowcountry Boughs of Holly (Liz Talbot Mystery, #10)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  19. ^ "Postcards From Stella Maris: Five Liz Talbot Short Stor…". Goodreads. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
  20. ^ "Lowcountry Getaway (Liz Talbot Mystery, #11)". Goodreads. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
  21. ^ "Goodreads". Goodreads. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
  22. ^ "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.
  23. ^ "Book Launch: Greenville Mystery Author Susan M. Boyer - Greenville Journal". Greenville Journal. Archived from the original on May 26, 2020. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
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Agatha Award winners
Best First Novel
  • Elizabeth George (1988)
  • Jill Churchill (1989)
  • Katherine Hall Page (1990)
  • Mary Willis Walker (1991)
  • Barbara Neely (1992)
  • Nevada Barr (1993)
  • Jeff Abbott (1994)
  • Jeanne M. Dams (1995)
  • Anne George (1996)
  • Sujata Massey (1997)
  • Robin Hathaway (1998)
  • Donna Andrews (1999)
  • Rosemary Stevens (2000)
  • Sarah Strohmeyer (2001)
  • Julia Spencer-Fleming (2002)
  • Jacqueline Winspear (2003)
  • Harley Jane Kozak (2004)
  • Laura Durham (2005)
  • Sandra Parshall (2006)
  • Hank Phillippi Ryan (2007)
  • G. M. Malliet (2008)
  • Alan Bradley (2009)
  • Avery Aames (2010)
  • Sara J. Henry (2011)
  • Susan M. Boyer (2012)
  • Leslie Budewitz (2013)
  • Terrie Farley Moran (2014)
  • Art Taylor (2015)
  • Cynthia Kuhn (2016)
  • Kellye Garrett (2017)
  • Dianne Freeman and Shari Randall (2018) (tie)
  • Tara Laskowski (2019)
  • Erica Neubauer (2020)
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