Lowcountry Bombshell

by Susan M. Boyer

Overview

Is it coincidence or Deadly Destiny?

Private Investigator Liz Talbot thinks she's seen another ghost when she meets Calista McQueen. She's the spitting image of Marilyn Monroe. Born exactly fifty years after the iconic bombshell, Calista's life is a déjà vu of Hollywood tragedy. And with the anniversary of Marilyn's death looming, Calista fears she's next in line for a tragic finale.

As Liz investigates, suspicious characters swarm around Calista like mosquitoes on a sultry Lowcountry evening: her certifiable mother, a fake aunt, her manipulative psychoanalyst, her peculiar housekeeper, and an obsessed ex-husband. Liz digs in to find a motive for murder, but she's besieged with distractions. Her ex has marriage and babies on his mind and her all-too-sexy partner engages in a campaign of repeat seduction. With the heat index approaching triple digits, Liz races to uncover a diabolical murder plot in time to save not only Calista's life, but also her own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781959023197
Publisher:	Stella Maris Books, LLC
Publication date:	10/25/2023
Series:	Liz Talbot Mystery Series , #2
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Susan M. Boyer is the USA TODAY bestselling author of twelve 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. Big Trouble on Sullivan's Island (A Carolina Tale), Susan's latest novel, was released on April 11, 2023. Her next release, The Sullivan's Island Supper Club is due out in April of 2024.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 spend as much time as possible on the Carolina coast.

Editorial Reviews

"Is there anything more enticing than curling up with a thrilling whodunit that keeps you guessing until the very end? Susan Boyer delivers big time with a witty mystery that is fun, radiant, and impossible to put down. I love this book!"

-Darynda Jones, New York Times Bestselling Author

"Susan M. Boyer gets it. And by 'it, ' I mean 'the southern voice.' And by that I do not mean she throws "Y'all" into every other line of her dialogue. I mean she understands deep down how Southern people talk and can replicate the cadence and music of that speech on the page as delicately as a master chef adding a last pinch of sea salt to a batch of Hollandaise sauce."

-Katherine Tomlinson, CriminalElement.com

"Lowcountry Bombshell is that rare combination of suspense, humor, seduction, and mayhem, an absolute must-read not only for mystery enthusiasts but for anyone who loves a fast-paced, well-written story!"

-Cassandra King, Author of The Same Sweet Girls

"Filled with unique southernisms, gracious charm, and a cast of eccentric characters...a cozy feeling, hard-boiled PI novel with a little romance thrown in. The best of three genres all mixed together."

-Nancy McFarlane, Fiction Addiction Book Store

"This Agatha Award-winning author of the Liz Talbot mysteries has put together a complicated story that's rich and juicy with plenty of twists and turns. It has lots of peril and romance-something for every cozy mystery fan."

-New York Journal of Books

"This is the story that keeps you flipping the pages until late at night. Boyer is definitely a keeper."

-Fresh Fiction

"Flowing with southern charm and delicious flavor, this fast-paced drama quickly draws you in and never let you go until that last sentence that is filled with so many possibilities that I hunger for the next book in this enchantingly charismatic series."

-Dru's Book Musings

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