Crafts and Life

Lowcountry PI Liz Talbot returns to the streets of Charleston in the seventh installment of Susan M. Boyer’s USA TODAY bestselling mystery series.

Between an epic downpour and a King Tide, those historic streets are flooded—and dangerous. A late night tragic accident along the Lower Battery leads Liz Talbot straight to her next case.

Who’s the client? Well, now, therein lies the first puzzle. When the police arrive at the scene of the accident, Poppy Oliver claims she’s only trying to help.

But the dent on the front of her Subaru and the victim’s injuries provoke a certain Charleston police detective’s suspicious nature. A wealthy, anonymous benefactor hires Liz and her partner Nate Andrews to prove Poppy Oliver’s innocence.

What exactly was Poppy Oliver up to? Is she a random good Samaritan who happens upon the accident scene? Or perhaps this tragedy wasn’t an accident. She just might be his abused wife’s accomplice.

Why does everyone involved in this case have a sudden burning urge for reading material, leading them to the same charming bookshop along the waterfront?

From a risqué, exclusive club in an old plantation to an upscale resale shop in the historic King Street shopping district to a downtown graveyard crawling with ghosts, Liz tracks a group of women who band together to help victims of domestic violence.

In her most challenging case yet, Liz fears she may find a killer, but justice may prove elusive.

Susan M Boyer has hit it right on the nose again, this time Liz and Nate get involved in proving the innocence of a local mail carrier who seems to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time and is now accused of murdering a local man in a hit and run (except if she is guilty then there is no run about it as she was found at the scene), the problem is not only was Poppy found there, there is a dent in her car's front bumper and she had accused the dead man of domestic abuse against his wife. Now Liz and Nate need to trawl through information and misinformation about the people involved and at the same time figure out WHAT is happening with Liz's father (and help her mother at the same time). Oh and their ghost is being evasive.

Ms Boyer is not afraid to show the sadder sides of life, this time with domestic abuse being the reason why everything happens and whilst this IS a Cozy some bits may make for difficult reading.