Isn't it always the husband?
Maybe not…
Charleston's most prestigious law firm is betting newlywed private investigators Liz Talbot and Nate Andrews can prove Clint Gerhardt didn't kill his wife—before his trial begins. But the deeper they dig, the more they suspect the woman everyone adored, the book-club president who rescued animals and volunteered at the homeless shelter, wasn't quite as perfect as she seemed.
To keep an innocent man out of prison and a killer from walking free, Liz and Nate work every rung of Lowcountry society—from the shelter where Shelby gave her time to the hundred-year-old Ashley Cooper Book Club, where the city's genteel ladies are, quite literally, dying to get in.
Behind their polished manners, every one of these women is hiding something—and one of those secrets is the thread that unravels everything.
In Boyer’s authentic Southern voice, Lowcountry Book Club serves up Charleston charm with a twisty mystery that leaves readers guessing until the very end.
Susan M. Boyer is the USA TODAY bestselling author of fourteen 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, the first novel in her Carolina Tales series, won the 2024 Independent Publisher Book Award silver medal in Southeast Regional Fiction and was a 2024 National Indie Excellence Award finalist.
Susan and her husband call Greenville, SC home and spend as much time as possible on the Carolina coast.