Gerry boyle jack mcmorrow series
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Author Gerry Boyle in his home office in China. Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer
Jack McMorrow’s editors at the New York Times sent him to Maine on what they thought was a soft and fuzzy story about the day-to-day workings of a small-town newspaper.
But McMorrow found the Pine Tree State was full of hard stories, too. Stories about drug trafficking, arson, armed robberies and murder. The thrill of unearthing the hard stories in some of Maine’s grittier, less-traveled spots is what convinced him to stay. He’s been reporting and tracking Maine crime since 1993 but has only aged about 15 years.
McMorrow is the tough, edgy reporter hero of a long-running mystery series by Maine author Gerry Boyle. After 31 years and 14 books, Boyle, 68, has decided to end the series. The last book is titled “Hard Line” (Islandport Press) and comes out June 11. Boyle has a book launch event scheduled that day at the Bangor Public Library and will also speak June 13 at Novel Book Bar & Cafe in
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Lifeline
Since I've komma into the series at #3 (yeah, I know...), I had no expectations of nor familiarity with Jack McMorrow, a doggedly stubborn reporter who seems to be burned out from his work at the fräsch Times and hiding out in rural Maine. He loves his hobby of birding and, like Thoreau, seems most at peace when in the woods, mosquitoes and black flies be damned. Unfortunately, his girlfriend Roxanne, with whom he's been living, isn't as transfixed by the idyllic life as he, and needs a change from her work and locale. If Jack had half a brain, he'd move with her and live happily ever after. But what kind of mystery novel would that make?
So, she goes and he remains behind, working a crap temporary job at the small town local paper report
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Jack McMorrow Books In Order
Publication Order of Jack McMorrow Mystery Books
| Deadline | (1993) |
| Bloodline | (1995) |
| Lifeline | (1996) |
| Potshot | (1997) |
| Borderline | (1998) |
| Cover Story | (2000) |
| Pretty Dead | (2003) |
| Home Body | (2004) |
| Damaged Goods | (2010) |
| Once Burned | (2015) |
| Straw Man | (2016) |
| Random Act | (2019) |
| Robbed Blind | (2022) |
| Hard Line | (2024) |
The Jack McMorrow Mysteries are a series of novels by popular journalist turned author, American Gerry Boyle. While he has written several detective crime novels, the Jack McMorrow Mystery novels are among Boyle’s most popular. The first published work in the series was the highly acclaimed book, Deadline published in 1993, which introduced the McMorrow character to readers. He continued publishing intermittently over the years, and by 2015, the series had 10 titles. In a recent intervi