Low Country Boil Simmers With Heat and Excitement
Slide over Margaret Maron and Rita Mae Brown, a new southern mystery writer, Susan M. Boyer , just appeared on the scene. In the vein of Maron's Deborah Knott and Brown's Harry Harristeen, Boyer's Liz Talbot snoops and investigates murders and other crimes in the small island town of Stella Maris, South Carolina. In Boyer's first novel of this guaranteed-to-be series, Low Country Boil , we meet Liz as she chases a rabbit through Reedy River Park in Greenville, SC. Of course, the rabbit is really a man dressed as a rabbit. After Liz and her private investigating partner serve said rabbit with a subpoena, they head for a relaxing beer, but the unexpected appearance of a ghost from her past and the sudden news of her grandmother's mysterious death interrupt Liz's relaxation. Determined to discover her grandmother's killer, Liz packs up and moves home to Stella Maris, a small island off the coast of Charleston. Just like her predecessors, Boyer knows t