2026 · The BookFest Awards
First Place
Bad Lie, Fiction – Thriller – Crime & Legal
Press Kit · Award-Winning Suspense
Juliet Dillon Clark
Author of the Lindsay Carter & Boyd Parker thrillers, a series about a former LA County homicide detective turned private investigator and the partner who never stops pulling the thread.
5Lindsay Carter novels, with more on the way
32026 book awards across the series
25,000+copies of one mystery sold in 2010
100+podcast and speaking appearances
About the author
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Juliet Dillon Clark is the award-winning author of the Lindsay Carter & Boyd Parker thrillers, including the 2026 BookFest First Place winner Bad Lie.
Juliet Dillon Clark writes the Lindsay Carter & Boyd Parker thrillers, featuring a former LA County homicide detective turned private investigator. Her novels have won First Place in The BookFest Awards (Bad Lie), the Indie Gold Grand Prize (Farmhouse Forgotten) and Indie Gold (Dark Granny). She lives in Salt Lake City, where she also runs Superbrand Publishing.
Juliet Dillon Clark is the award-winning author of the Lindsay Carter & Boyd Parker thrillers. Lindsay is a former LA County homicide detective turned private investigator; Boyd is a retired character actor and firearms historian who becomes her partner. Together they take the cases no one else will touch.
The series has earned three 2026 honors: Bad Lie won First Place in The BookFest Awards for Fiction – Thriller – Crime & Legal, Farmhouse Forgotten won the Indie Gold Grand Prize, and Dark Granny won Indie Gold. The next novel, The Survivor's Name, arrives in January 2027.
Clark started writing fiction around 2008 and sold more than 25,000 copies of one mystery in 2010 before stepping back to raise her children. She returned to publishing her novels in 2026. Lindsay Carter was inspired in part by a close friend who worked Malibu patrol for the LA County Sheriff's Department, and the hoarder grandmother in Dark Granny draws on Clark's own grandmother.
Outside her fiction, Clark founded Superbrand Publishing in 2010 after careers in traditional publishing and advertising. She hosts the award-winning Promote, Profit, Publish podcast and is editor-in-chief of Breakthrough Author Magazine. She lives in Salt Lake City, writes at sunrise and holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Recognition
Awards & honors
2026 · Indie Gold Awards
Grand Prize
Farmhouse Forgotten. Also a finalist in Suspense: Amateur Sleuth and Thriller: Police or FBI Procedural.
2026 · Indie Gold Awards
Gold Winner
Dark Granny
The series
The Lindsay Carter & Boyd Parker Thrillers
Cold files, police blind spots, and victims who can't afford a lawyer. Each book stands on its own, and together they follow Lindsay and Boyd from Malibu trails to Central California farm country to the back rooms of professional golf.
Book 1
The Fortune Teller's Daughter
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A senator's daughter vanishes from a Pacific coast highway, and Lindsay needs a psychic she doesn't believe in.
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Book 2
Dark Granny
2026 Indie Gold Winner
A hoarder's house. A hidden archive of crime. A detective who just learned her grandmother's real name.
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Book 3
Farmhouse Forgotten
2026 Indie Gold Grand Prize
A slaughtered family, a baby left in his crib, and a missing sister who may be living under another name.
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Book 4
Bad Lie
2026 BookFest First Place
A Masters favorite. A gambling debt. A killer who knows the price of a green jacket.
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Book 5 · January 2027
The Survivor's Name
Coming soon
A woman who rebuilt her life under a stolen name is dragged into the spotlight by a viral true-crime podcast.
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Featured title · Available now on Amazon
He won the Masters. The lie cost him everything else.
Pro golfer Davis Stansbury III has the swing every kid dreams about, and a gambling habit no sponsor can ever see. When a back-room poker game leaves him owing six figures to a bookie named Rizzo, Davis thinks a win at the Masters will buy his way out. He wins. He pays. Someone still wants him dead.
When a whistleblower at the billion-dollar cloud company NimbusCore turns up dead in an apparent suicide, PI Lindsay Carter and her partner Boyd Parker follow the money through elite golf, shadowy gambling rooms and a tech empire built on other people's secrets.
First Place, The BookFest Awards 2026, Fiction – Thriller – Crime & Legal · Released August 18, 2026
“Clark writes small towns the way Tana French writes Dublin — the place itself is the accomplice.”Advance reader, The Fortune Teller's Daughter
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Interview topics
Juliet is a seasoned podcast guest and speaker. These are the conversations she brings the most to.
The real deputy behind Lindsay Carter
How a close friend's stories from Malibu patrol with the LA County Sheriff's Department became the backbone of a fictional detective, and what crime fiction usually gets wrong about women in law enforcement.
My grandmother, the original Dark Granny
A wealthy hoarder with a mysterious past, husbands who disappeared and an almond ranch with a creepy cellar. How family secrets turn into fiction.
Coming back to fiction after 15 years
Selling 25,000 copies in 2010, stepping away to raise a family, and relaunching a series into a completely different publishing world.
Thinking like an investigator
When her son was scammed, Juliet tracked down the scammer before the police did. What curiosity and loose threads teach a mystery writer.
Golf, gambling and tech greed in Bad Lie
Why the Masters makes a perfect crime scene, and how a sports thriller became a story about data, power and who gets silenced.
How indie authors win readers today
From her publisher's chair at Superbrand: awards, reader lists, ARC teams and what actually moves books, tested on her own series first.
Suggested questions
- Lindsay Carter is partly based on a real deputy. How much of her is true?
- Your grandmother inspired Dark Granny. What did your family think?
- Why pair a homicide detective with a retired character actor?
- What made you come back to the series after so many years?
- You admit you're terrible at golf. How did you write a book set at the Masters?
- What's the difference between a mystery and a thriller, in your view?
- What's next for Lindsay and Boyd after The Survivor's Name?
As seen & heard
Recent media
- Book Marketing BuzzFeatured on Brian Feinblum's award-winning author blog
- May West Network / Author Publishers with Patrick SnowInterview, June 25, 2026
- Beach Bound Book Bash 2026Appearance discussing Dark Granny
- Promote, Profit, PublishHost of the award-winning podcast for authors
- Breakthrough Author MagazineEditor-in-chief
Off the page
A few things about Juliet
- iLives in Salt Lake City and writes at sunrise, fueled by Diet Dr Pepper.
- iiHolds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
- iiiPaints landscapes, and has sold a few, despite a second-grade teacher who said she wasn't good at art.
- ivA plotter, never a pantser. Fall is the only acceptable season.
- vGreat at hiking. Terrible at golf. Unashamed of both.
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