Tag Archives: Jack McMorrow Mysteries

When the only justice is made up

Posted on December 20, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here, and I have to confess that my heart isn’t in this. It’s been a difficult week, from a distance or up close. After the Newtown shootings, I joined the rest of the country. Stunned. Paralyzed. … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged Brandon Blake, Damaged Goods, Gerry Boyle, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Maine, Maine Crime Writers, maine mysteries, Port City Black and White | 9 Comments

On Van Gogh and other Mysteries

Posted on December 7, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all, Gerry Boyle here. I’ve been thinking about this post all day and about how not long ago a high school student got in touch and asked if he could job-shadow me. Really, I thought. Flattering, but what would … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts | Tagged Brandon Blake, crime stories, crime writing, Gerry Boyle, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Maine Crime Writers, maine mysteries, mysteries, mystery writers, mystery writing, New England Crime Bake, Port City Black and White, van gogh | 5 Comments

A Perfect Roast Chicken

Posted on December 1, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

James Hayman: The other night my wife, Jeanne, and I and a few friends had dinner at a small, crowded French bistro we all like on Portland’s Longfellow Square called Petite Jacqueline. What I ordered was nothing fancy. Just a … Continue reading →

Posted in Jim's Posts | Tagged Bon Appetit, chef, crime stories, crime writing, Foofies, gourmet, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, James Hayman, Maine, Maine Crime Writers, murder, Petite Jacqueline, Portland restaurants, Roast Chicken, The Chill of Night, The Cutting, writing | 2 Comments

The Writer’s Ritual

Posted on November 26, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Hey, all, Gerry Boyle here. And I’m here today to tell you that that I couldn’t have written a single line, a single chapter, a single book without one thing. Red Rose tea. Red Rose has been the key ingredient … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged Brandon Blake, crime stories, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Gerry Boyle, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Port City Black and White, Red Rose Tea, writers' rituals | 8 Comments

Give Me a Heroine–or a Hero

Posted on November 13, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all, Gerry Boyle here, pausing from my monitoring of crime news in the Bangor Daily—a body in the trunk of a Lexus, brazen burglars in Belfast robbing houses while residents are asleep—to report on a crime novel I just … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged Brandon Blake, Gerry Boyle, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Jack Reacher, Lee Child, mystery writers, mystery writing, Port City Black and White, Robert B. Parker, Spenser, the hero in crime fiction | 7 Comments

Part J.D. Salinger, part Patricia Cornwell

Posted on November 1, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here, having a weird morning. A newspaper columnist wrote about my books this morning, describing the ways real-life crime has resembled my fictional version. Maureen Milliken, the columnist for the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel, writes … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged Ayla Reynolds, Brandon Blake, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Down East Books, Gerry Boyle, Holly Boutilier, Home Body, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Maine Crime Writers, maine mysteries, Port City Black and White | 2 Comments

On the Zumba Scandal and Other Great Book Ideas

Posted on October 20, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Hey, all, Gerry Boyle here. And I’m sure I’m not the only Maine crimewriter who has heard this in the past week: “That Zumba story—boy, that would make a great book for you.” The last time I got this many … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged Alexis Wright, Brandon Blake, crime stories, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Gerry Boyle, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Kennebunk, Maine, Maine Crime Writers, Port City Black and White, Zumba, Zumba case | 3 Comments

When Writers Team Up, What?

Posted on October 13, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here, with a question for the group and anyone else out there in the crimewriter blogosphere. I’m beginning a collaboration with another writer. We’re writing a crime novel together and we’re both psyched about it. We … Continue reading →

Tagged Barbara Ross, Best New England Crime Stories 2013 Bllod Moon, Brandon Blake, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Group Post, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Maine Crime Writers, Paul Doiron, Port City Black and White | 5 Comments

A Place Called Maine

Posted on October 8, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here. And I wasn’t sure what I was going to write about today until I was reading the newspaper last week and saw a drug bust—bags of Oxycodone, stolen handguns, felons with outstanding warrants. That’s no … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged A Place Called Maine, Bill Roorbach, Carolyn Chute, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Down East Books, E.B. White, Gerry Boyle, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Maine, Maine writers, Monica Wood, Port City Black and White, Richard Ford, Richard Russo | 2 Comments

Touched by the Long Arm of the Law

Posted on September 27, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Gerry Boyle here. And OK, I have to admit that my fascination with this murder case may have to do with the fact that it happened at the outset of my newspaper career, in a town I came to know … Continue reading →