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    Lowcountry Boneyard

    By Susan M. Boyer

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    Where is Kent Heyward? The twenty-three-year-old heiress from one of Charleston's oldest families vanished a month ago. When her father hires private investigator Liz Talbot, Liz suspects the most difficult part of her job will be convincing the patriarch his daughter tired of his overbearing nature and left town.

    That's what the Charleston Police Department believes.

    But behind the garden walls South of Broad, family secrets pop up like weeds in the azaleas. The neighbors recollect violent arguments between Kent and her parents. Eccentric twin uncles and a gaggle of cousins covet the family fortune.

    And the lingering spirit of a Civil-War-era debutante may know something if Colleen, Liz’s dead best friend, can get her to talk.

    Liz juggles her case, the partner she’s in love with, and the family she adores. But the closer she gets to what has become of Kent, the closer Liz dances to her own grave.

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    LOWCOUNTRY BONEYARD by Susan M. Boyer - A Henery Press Mystery. If you like one, you’ll probably like them all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHenery Press
    Release dateApr 21, 2015
    ISBN9781941962480
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    Lowcountry Boneyard
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    Susan M. Boyer

    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. 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 visit the Carolina coast as often as possible.

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    • 3/5
      This was an entertaining who done it with the family secrets of the rich and powerful at the center of the crime. The main character is likable, and her personal ghost is amusing. Overall, this was a fun cozy mystery with a bit of humor.
    • 5/5
      Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. My favorite series.
    • 4/5
      This is the third book in the Liz Talbot mystery series. While I'm curious about her other cases, this book stands alone quite well. Liz is called on to investigate the disappearance of Kent Heyward. The police have moved the case off the active list despite the pressure put on by her socially prominent parents. Liz immediately begins nosing around and soon uncovers all sorts of possible suspects from her shady uncles, to her chef boyfriend, to her new artist friend. Liz knows that she is getting warmer when someone sends her a rattlesnake as a way of discouraging her interest in investigating. Liz is also a little preoccupied by the state of her relationship with her partner and love interest Nate. They have been having a sort of long-distance relationship for a while with Nate based in Greenville and Liz near Charlotte. One of Liz's reasons for staying in Charlotte is the ghost - guardian spirit - of her childhood best friend whose presence she hasn't shared with Nate. Colleen's existence, her close ties with her family, and her desire to preserve her island home from real estate developers are strong reasons to stay in Charlotte. Nate feels he has equally strong reasons to stay in Greenville. This disagreement causes a break in their romantic relationship but they are also business partners working as private investigators.The more Liz and Nate investigate the more they learn about long-buried family secrets. Liz finds herself in danger on a number of occasions. Luckily, she has a guardian spirit to direct her actions and help keep her safe. This was a fun mystery with a decidedly Southern flair. Liz calls on her Southern charm a number of times as she is investigating. I like her relationship with her family with an over-protective older brother and a mother who seems to think proper makeup can solve a lot of problems.
    • 4/5
      4 stars This has good mystery, action, suspense, ghosts, murder and romance. There is a few love scenes. I like the regular characters a lot. I have read now all three books in the A Liz Talbot mystery. I would read more about Liz and company. Liz is a P.I. her partner is her now boyfriend for two years. They have a long distant relationship. Liz can't tell him all the reasons why she can't move back with him to where they started their business. Because her best friend who died when they were 17 needs her help to keep her island safe. Only Liz can see and hear Colleen. Nate was Liz's brother-in-law and has been her partner for years. He wants Liz to love him as much as she loved the other men in her life. I like Nate and kept routing for them to work things out. Liz is hired by a rich and powerful couple to help find there missing daughter. She has been missing for a month. The police have stopped looking because they are without anymore leads. Liz starts investigating and right away she is threatened. There are a lot of twists and turns before the end. There is a lot of danger and some humor. Which is usually caused by Colleen or Liz's family. The setting for this book is North Carolina. Liz and her family all live on a island. I was given this ebook to read by Net Galley and Henery Press and in return I agreed to give honest review of Lowcountry Boneyard.
    • 4/5
      Liz and partner, Nate are hired to find the daughter of a prominent Charleston family. She has been missing for quite a while and the police think that she has left town to escape her domineering family. But she did not contact anyone, not her fiance or her best friend. Liz suspect the worst but hopes for the best. The more they investigate the stranger the story gets and the more dangerous the investigation becomes.Wow, I think this may the best one yet. There was so much going on with the investigation and with Liz's personal life. But the case is the main focus and it has more twists and turns than any of the books so far. There is nothing like a good story of hidden family secrets and this one has it in spades. Can't wait to see what happens next.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed the third book in the Liz Talbot Mystery series. It had a little of everything that I like, mystery, humour, romance, family relationships and supernatural. There was also danger in this one, but not too bad.

      Liz is hired to find the missing Charleston heiress, 20 year-old Kent Heyward. She has been missing over a month and the police are no longer actively investigating. When Nate, her partner in the business and in love, ties up the case he is working on in Greenville, he heads to Stella Maris to spend time with Kate. He ends up jumping into the investigation and together they uncover some family secrets that put them in serious danger. As well, their relationship quickly goes south when they realize that they do not want a long distance relationship and neither is willing to move across the state to live with the other. Will they find Kent alive or dead? Who is responsible for her disappearance?

      I love Liz's character. She is a little quirky, fun, but not too stuck on herself, a good southern character. She is also smart, stands up for herself, brave and will not give up when she takes something on. She also has a good sense of humor and is just a bit sarcastic. Colleen, the ghost of her high school friend, is her guardian spirit and certainly does her part in this story on more than one occasion. I also enjoy her family. Her mom is the epitome of a Southern lady and her brother is a just a bit overprotective. Her younger sister brings home a beau in this story and it seems that if he sticks around, he will be just as much fun as her dad. Her father shows the redneck side of himself in a couple of scenes, one being laugh out loud. This is a great story, engaging, believable, twisty with some humour and a bit of romance. A great book for any cozy mystery lover. It is not imperative that you read these books in order, but it might help to enjoy the series even more.
    • 5/5
      Twenty-three-year-old Kent has been missing for a month. The police have no other leads. Kent’s father, Colton Heyward, calls Liz Talbot of Talbot and Andrews Investigations. The family hopes she can find something that the police don’t have time to investigate further. Ansley Johnson, who is close friends with Kent, had recommended Liz to the family. Liz is not entirely on her own. Other than her partner, Nate Andrews, and Sonny Ravenel, her connection with the police, she has a little help in the form of her friend, Coleen, who had died seventeen years ago. Liz is Coleen’s sole human point of contact. Coleen prefers the term ‘guardian spirit’ as opposed to ‘ghost’. Coleen was checking out the house while Liz was speaking with Mr. Heyward and managed to find a fellow spirit, Sue Ellen, who added a little extra detail about Kent’s emotional state before she went missing. But, not everyone wants Liz to succeed in finding out what happened to Kent. She is threatened along the way – the first time was a box delivery that happened to contain a rattler.This is a very clever story that allows the reader to ponder the investigation from various angles. Since no one else can see or hear Coleen, Liz needs to find ways of bringing aspects to light that she would not know on her own. Liz and Nate are romantically involved but feeling the tension in their long distance relationship. She lives in Stella Maris on Sullivan’s Island, SC while Nate lives in Greenville. The characters feel very human to me and I entirely enjoyed Coleen, the ‘guardian spirit’. The descriptions of Stella Maris are wonderful but do not get in the way of the story. Lowcountry Boneyard is the third in the Liz Talbot series and can be read on its own. It follows Lowcountry Boil and Lowcountry Bombshell. Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
    • 5/5
      Third in the series and it doesn't even come close to disappointing. This is a cozy, but it could also be called a procedural, as Liz and Nate are P.I.'s. What it definitely isn't, is fluffy. I suppose if one wanted to be pedantic it could be called a traditional mystery, but the line there is so blurred it really makes no never mind. Lowcountry Boneyard is about a missing young woman from a prominent Charleston family. Her parents hire Liz when the police run out of leads after a month of searching and determine Kent left of her own volition. Liz's investigation turns up secrets only a very old-money-wealthy family can bury. The setting is about 50/50 between the fictional island of Stella Maris and Charleston, South Carolina. I've read other books that evoke Charleston more vividly, but Stella Maris just comes alive for me. Liz's family could be considered the ideal and I find their interactions help keep the story light and entertaining. I purely love Liz's father - although I wholeheartedly disapprove of his "rat hunt"; not eco-friendly at all. Colleen becomes a more fleshed-out character in this one too; hopefully she doesn't end up a superhero equivalent. What I think I love the best though, is that real time passes between books: this one takes place over 2 years after the last one and major changes take place in Liz's life during that time that the author doesn't over-burden the reader with. I always find it a bit absurd when a series has the MC involved in multiple murder cases within a short span of time. The plot solution wasn't a shocker - but I didn't guess how things would play out either. Ultimately I had the right twists but the wrong players. I don't feel confident that I wasn't meant to take the deductive path I did though, and my enjoyment didn't suffer for it. If you like your mysteries fluffy, or with everything tied up in a bow at the end and justice–legal or karmic–to have been meted out, you aren't going to enjoy this book. But if you enjoy a solid mystery, really well-written–one you can sink your teeth into, and enjoy a ghost/angel in your reads, this is the series I'd recommend.