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American author

Susan M. Boyer

Occupation	Author
Nationality	American
Genre	Mystery
Notable awards	Daphne 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 and an Agatha Award for Best First Novel in 2013 for her debut novel, Lowcountry Boil. That title was also nominated for a Macavity Award in 2013.

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

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 and was a 2024 finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award in the category of Regional Fiction: Southeast.

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

Bibliography

The Liz Talbot Mystery Series

Lowcountry Boil (2012)

Lowcountry Bombshell (2013)

Lowcountry Boneyard (2015)

Lowcountry Bordello (2015)

Lowcountry Book Club (2016)

Lowcountry Bonfire (2017)

Lowcountry Bookshop (2018)

Lowcountry Boomerang (2019)

Lowcountry Boondoggle (2020)

Lowcountry Boughs of Holly (2020)

Postcards from Stella Maris (2022)

Lowcountry Getaway (2022)

The Carolina Tales Series

Big Trouble on Sullivan's Island (2023)

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

The Sullivan's Island Supper Club (2024)

Personal life

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

References

"Books in Brief: Cinders, Dallas 1963, Lowcountry Bombshell". www.buffaloNews.com. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
"2012 Daphne Unpublished Contest Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016.
Oline Cogdill. "Mystery Scene". Retrieved January 23, 2016.
"Mystery Fanfare". May 4, 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
"N.C. author wins an Agatha". Retrieved January 23, 2016.
"Macavity Awards". Mystery Readers International. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
"The Spring 2015 SIBA Okra Picks!". Retrieved May 20, 2016.
Roberts, Allison (October 2, 2024). "2024 Medalists". Independent Publisher Book Awards. Retrieved October 30, 2024.
"18th Annual Finalists | National Indie Excellence Awards | California". indie-excellence. Retrieved October 30, 2024.
"The 2016 Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize". Authors 'Round the South. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
SP. "The 2017 Southern Book Prize Finalists Announced". www.sibaweb.com. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
"Goodreads". Goodreads. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
"Goodreads". Goodreads. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
"Lowcountry Boneyard (Liz Talbot Mystery, #3)". Goodreads. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
"Lowcountry Bordello". GoodReads.
"Lowcountry Bonfire". goodreads.com.
"Lowcountry Bookshop (Liz Talbot Mystery #7)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
"Lowcountry Boomerang (Liz Talbot Mystery #8)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
"Lowcountry Boondoggle (Liz Talbot Mystery #9)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
"Lowcountry Boughs of Holly (Liz Talbot Mystery, #10)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
"Postcards From Stella Maris: Five Liz Talbot Short Stor…". Goodreads. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
"Lowcountry Getaway (Liz Talbot Mystery, #11)". Goodreads. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
"Goodreads". Goodreads. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
"Beginnings - The Sullivan's Island Supper Club (Carolin…". Goodreads. Retrieved October 30, 2024.
"The Sullivan's Island Supper Club (Carolina Tales, #3)". Goodreads. Retrieved October 30, 2024.
"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.
"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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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)
Best Contemporary Novel	Hank Phillippi Ryan (2013) Hank Phillippi Ryan (2014) Margaret Maron (2015) Louise Penny (2016) Louise Penny (2017) Ellen Byron (2018) Ann Cleeves (2019) Louise Penny (2020)
Best Novel	Carolyn G. Hart (1988) Elizabeth Peters (1989) Nancy Pickard (1990) Nancy Pickard (1991) Margaret Maron (1992) Carolyn Hart (1993) Sharyn McCrumb (1994) Sharyn McCrumb (1995) Margaret Maron (1996) Kate Ross (1997) Laura Lippman (1998) Earlene Fowler (1999) Margaret Maron (2000) Rhys Bowen (2001) Donna Andrews (2002) Carolyn Hart (2003) Jacqueline Winspear (2004) Katherine Hall Page (2005) Nancy Pickard (2006) Louise Penny (2007) Louise Penny (2008) Louise Penny (2009) Louise Penny (2010) Margaret Maron (2011) Louise Penny (2012)
Best Historical Novel	Rhys Bowen (2011) Catriona McPherson (2012) Caroline and Charles Todd (2013) Rhys Bowen (2014) Laurie R. King (2015) Catriona McPherson (2016) Rhys Bowen (2017) Sujata Massey (2018) Edith Maxwell (2019) Rhys Bowen (2020)
Best Non-Fiction	Barbara D'Amato (1993) Jean Swanson and Dean James (1994) Alzina Stone Dale (1995) Willeta L. Heisin (1996) Willeta L. Heisin (1997) Alzina Stone Dale (1998) Daniel Stashower (1999) Jim Huang (2000) Tony Hillerman (2001) Jim Huang (2002) Elizabeth Peters and Kristen Whitbread (2003) Jack French (2004) Melanie Rehak (2005) Chris Roerden (2006) Jon Lellenberg (2007) Kathy Lynn Emerson (2008) Elena Santangelo (2009) John Curran (2010) Leslie Budewitz (2011) John Connolly (2012) Daniel Stashower (2013) Hank Phillippi Ryan (2014) Martin Edwards (2015) Jane K. Cleland (2016) Mattias Bostrom (2017) Jane Cleland (2018) Mo Moulton (2019) Christina Lane (2020)
Best Short Story	Robert Barnard (1988) Sharyn McCrumb (1989) Joan Hess (1990) Margaret Maron (1991) Aaron Elkins and Charlotte Elkins (1992) M. D. Lake (1993) Dorothy Cannell (1994) Elizabeth Daniels (1995) Carolyn Wheat (1996) M. D. Lake (1997) Barbara D'Amato (1998) Nancy Pickard (1999) Jan Burke (2000) Katherine Hall Page (2001) Margaret Maron and Marcia Talley (2002) Elizabeth Foxwell (2003) Elaine Viets (2004) Marcia Talley (2005) Toni Kelner (2006) Donna Andrews (2007) Dana Cameron (2008) Hank Phillippi Ryan (2009) Mary Jane Maffini (2010) Dana Cameron (2011) Dana Cameron (2012) Art Taylor (2013) Art Taylor (2014) Barb Goffman (2015) Art Taylor (2016) Gigi Pandian (2017) Leslie Budewitz and Tara Laskowski (2018) (tie) Shawn Reilly Simmons (2019) Barb Goffman (2020)
Best Young Adult Mystery	Cindy Callaghan (2018)
Best Children/ Young Adult Fiction	Penny Warner (2001) Daniel J. Hale & Matthew LaBrot (2002) Kathleen Karr (2003) Blue Balliett (2004) Peter Abrahams (2005) Nancy Means Wright (2006) Sarah Masters Buckey (2007) Chris Grabenstein (2008) Chris Grabenstein (2009) Sarah Smith (2010) Chris Grabenstein (2011) Penny Warner (2012) Chris Grabenstein (2013) Penny Warner (2014) Amanda Flower (2015) Penny Warner (2016) Cindy Callaghan (2017) Frances Schoonmaker (2019) Richard Narvaez (2020)
Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement	Phyllis A. Whitney (1990) Mignon G. Eberhart (1994) Mary Stewart (1996) Emma Lathen (1997) Charlotte MacLeod (1998) Patricia Moyes (1999) Dick Francis (2000) Mildred Benson (2001) Tony Hillerman (2002) Barbara Mertz, Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels (2003) Marian Babson (2004) H.R.F. Keating (2005) Robert Barnard (2006) Carolyn Hart (2007) Peter Lovesey (2008) Anne Perry (2009) Mary Higgins Clark (2010) Sue Grafton (2011) Simon Brett (2012) Aaron Elkins (2013) Dorothy Cannell, Joan Hess and Margaret Maron (2014) Sara Paretsky (2015) Katherine Hall Page (2016) Charlaine Harris (2017) Nancy Pickard (2018)
Malice Domestic Poirot Award	David Suchet (2003) Ruth Cavin (2004) Angela Lansbury (2005) Douglas G. Greene (2006) Janet Hutchings and Linda Landrigan (2008) Kate Stine and Brian Skupin (2009) William Link (2010) Janet Rudolph (2011) Lee Goldberg (2012) Tom Schantz (2014) Barbara G. Peters (2016) Martin Edwards (2017) Brenda Blethyn (2018)

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