Her mission is to keep Stella Mars safe from being overpopulated with people. But the Powers That Be are getting annoyed with Colleen since that's not her primary mission. She wants to keep them safe, but realizes that Liz uses her too much while working cases and also that Colleen has saved them both dozens of times due to her actions. We also have a shifting of Colleen's friendship with Liz and Nate in this one. I did like how that story-line was resolved though by the end of this book. Liz is also still suspicious of Darius's son from the events she unearthed in the last book. It is glossed over eventually (but picked up again in the next book). Liz knows how tight their finances are and wonders how Nate has the money he seems to. Liz and Nate work well together, but there's increasing tension between them due to Nate spending a lot of money towards the home they live in and a new vehicle they bought. We have Liz and Nate being asked to investigate when Darius (their client from the last case they worked) asks them to step in when it seems his biological son and two friends are suspects in a murder. She lives in Greenville, SC, with her husband and an inordinate number of houseplants.I loved the newest installment of the Liz Talbot mystery series. You'll find all of the above in her novels. Susan loves beaches, Southern food, and small towns where everyone knows everyone, and everyone has crazy relatives.

The third in the series, Lowcountry Boneyard, was a Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Okra Pick, a Daphne du Maurier Award finalist, and short-listed for the Pat Conroy Beach Music Mystery Prize. Her debut novel, Lowcountry Boil, won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel, the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense, and garnered several other award nominations, including the Macavity. Boyer is the author of the USA Today bestselling Liz Talbot mystery series. If you like one, you'll probably like them all. Boyer's latest Southern charmer, Lowcountry Boondoggle. Take a virtual vacation to Charleston in Susan M. But will the price of justice be more than Liz can bear? Though Liz's long-dead best friend, Colleen, warns her the stakes are far higher than Liz imagines, she is hellbent on finding the no-good killer among the bevy of suspects. Was it one of his many girlfriends or a disgruntled student? Or perhaps Murray was killed because his failure to invest meant the hemp farm trio's dreams were going up in smoke?

When a beloved Charleston professor-and potential investor-is murdered, Liz and Nate discover Darius keeps the PIs on speed dial.Ī shocking number of people had reasons to want the genteel, bowtie wearing, tea-drinking professor dead. Private investigators Liz Talbot and Nate Andrews thought they'd put Darius Baker's troubles to rest-then his recently discovered son ropes him into a hemp farm investment with his college buddies.

Lowcountry Boondoggle by Susan M. Boyer