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| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Mystery |
| Notable awards | Daphne du Maurier Award 2012 Agatha Award 2013 |
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Susan M. Boyer is a USA Today bestselling author of mystery novels set in the American South.
Susan M. Boyer | |
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| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Mystery |
| Notable awards | Daphne du Maurier Award 2012 Agatha Award 2013 |
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Susan M. Boyer is a USA Today bestselling author of mystery novels set in the American South.
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]
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]
Big Trouble on Sullivan's Island (2023) [21]
Boyer enjoys beaches, Southern food, and small Southern towns. [22] She currently lives in Greenville, in South Carolina [23] with her husband.
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