The Liz Talbot Mystery Series: Volume One

A Stella Maris Books, LLC exclusive!

🏆 By USA TODAY Bestselling author Susan M. Boyer

💻📚🎧 Available in eBook! Paperback and audio coming soon.

✍️ More than 10,000+ 5-star reviews at retailers & online sites, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Goodreads, and others.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Has everything you could want in a traditional mystery:  a credible and savvy protagonist, a meaty mystery, and setting that will make you want to spend time in South Carolina. I enjoyed every minute of it." — Charlaine Harris, New York Times Bestselling Author

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I love Liz Talbot. She's smart, funny... and far from perfect. Her combination of southern charm and style is irresistible in this traditional mystery that made me want to visit Charleston again as soon as possible!" — Goodreads Reviewer Erin

Note from Susan: Why am I offering this deal? Because traditional publishers usually price eBooks up to USD $15.99 and audiobooks from UDS $19.99 to $29.99. I don't think reading should break the bank, so I price my bundles at friendly, fair prices. That way, we both win. 

Get ready for Southern charm, sassy sleuthing, and supernatural surprises in The Liz Talbot Mystery Series Bundle (Volume One)!

This thrilling bundle brings together the first three full-length novels of The Liz Talbot Mystery series, a captivating collection of short stories, and a BONUS — the first full-length volume of the Carolina Tales Series — giving you plenty of time to relax on the sun-drenched shores and uncover the shadowy secrets of the lush South Carolina Lowcountry.

If you love your mysteries served with a generous helping of Southern sass, this collection is your perfect escape. Meet Liz Talbot and Hadley Cooper today!

BOOKS INCLUDED IN YOUR BUNDLE

🏖️ LOWCOUNTRY BOIL — Private Investigator Liz Talbot is a modern Southern belle. She blesses hearts and takes names. She carries her Sig 9 in her Kate Spade handbag, and her golden retriever, Rhett, rides shotgun in her hybrid Escape. When her grandmother is murdered, Liz hightails it back to her South Carolina island home to find the killer. She's fit to be tied when her brother — the chief of police — shuts her out of the investigation, so she opens her own. Then her long-dead best friend pops in and things really get complicated. As more folks turn up dead in this small seaside town, Liz must use more than just her wits and charm to keep her family safe, chase down clues from the hereafter, and catch a psychopath before he catches her.

🏖️ LOWCOUNTRY BOMBSHELL — 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. 

🏖️ LOWCOUNTRY BONEYARD — 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.

🏖️ POSTCARDS FROM STELLA MARIS — For fans of the Liz Talbot Mystery Series...

Postcards From Stella Maris is a collection of five short stories for fans of the series who might be interested, for example, in Colleen's backstory. I wrote the short story "Common Knowledge" for myself years ago, as a way to explore what happened to Colleen. As you might imagine, it's not as light as the series in general. This story has never been published anywhere before.

"Eviction" is the story of how Liz first met Rhett, her golden retriever, back when she was married to Scott the Scoundrel. This story is also not lighthearted, and it likewise has never been published before.

"Hogwash" originally appeared in Spinetingler Magazine. This is a fun little case which introduces the character of Zeke Lyerly, who appears in Lowcountry Bonfire.

"Highlights and Hot Lead" originally appeared in The Petigru Review. This is a Stella Maris slice of life story featuring Shannelle Johnson, a local judge's wife, and it takes place entirely at Phoebe's Day Spa.

"Everything is Relative" is a peek inside a Talbot family Thanksgiving. A few of Mamma's recipes are included at the end. 

If by chance you've stumbled on this collection of stories, but you've never read a Liz Talbot mystery, I would encourage you to start with Lowcountry Boil (A Liz Talbot Mystery, Book 1) and come back to these stories later.

I so hope you enjoy these glimpses into Liz Talbot's formative years, her unfortunate first marriage, and her life between major cases.

🏖️ BONUS: BIG TROUBLE ON SULLIVAN'S ISLAND — Hadley Cooper has a big heart. So when the easygoing private investigator gets a request from a new friend to stake out her husband's extramarital activities, she immediately begins surveillance. And when her client is discovered dead on her kitchen floor, the Southern spitfire is certain the cheater is the culprit ... even though he has the perfect alibi:  Hadley herself. 

Flustered since she observed the cad four hours away in Greenville at the time of the murder, the determined PI desperately searches for clues to tie him tot he crime. But when her ex-boyfriend, who happens to be the lead detective on the case, arrests a handy suspect, Hadley fears a guilty man is about to walk free. 

Can this Palmetto State sleuth make an impossible connection to prevent a miscarriage of justice?

With dry wit and delightful dialogue, Susan M. Boyer delivers an eccentric, vegan gumshoe sure to appeal to any fan of Southern women's fiction. With her merry band of sassy friends, Hadley Cooper is a Lowcountry detective you won't soon forget.

Big Trouble on Sullivan's Island is the engaging first book in the Carolina Tales Series. If you like strong heroines, quirky sisterhoods, and plenty of Southern charm, then you'll love Susan M. Boyer's wonderful whodunnit. 

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