Tag Archives: Robert B. Parker

Putting Food on the Page

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Brenda Buchanan

When writing my own stories and reading those written by others, I’m always keen to know what the characters are eating. This has nothing to do with the fact that like many of us in the culinary paradise that is … Continue reading →

Posted in Brenda's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged Barbara Ross, food, Joe Gale, Louise Penny, Maine, maine clambake mysteries, Neva Pierce, Robert B. Parker, Three Pines | 6 Comments

Feel the Mystery Burn

Posted on May 6, 2015 by mainecrimewriters

Hello, friends: Gerry Boyle here. My friend Kate Flora graciously invited me to write something to coincide with the launch of ONCE BURNED, the new and 10th Jack McMorrow novel, to be released by Islandport Press next week. The book is … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged Brandon Blake, crime stories, crime writing, Gerry Boyle, Islandport Press, Jack McMorrow, Maine writers, Once Burned, Port City Black and White, Robert B. Parker, WCSH 207 | 6 Comments

How Did I Get Here?

Posted on May 4, 2015 by mainecrimewriters

You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful … Continue reading →

Posted in Brenda's Posts | Tagged Boston Globe, Brenda Buchanan, Joe Gale mysteries, Northeastern University, Quick Pivot, Robert B. Parker | 22 Comments

What Was I Thinking?

Posted on April 8, 2014 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here. And I want to tell you about my new assignment. In 20 years of writing mystery novels, it’s a first. My new publisher, Islandport Press, has asked me to write introductions to my early books, … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged Bloodline, Brandon Blake, Damaged Goods, Deadline, Dick Francis, Down East Books, Gerry Boyle, Islandport Press, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, John D. MacDonald, Maine, maine mysteries, Once Burned, Port City Black and White, Robert B. Parker, Rumford, The Godwulf Manuscript, Travis McGee, writing introductions | 6 Comments

Your Book is Done. Now Who Sees it?

Posted on September 25, 2013 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all, Gerry Boyle here. And I’m reporting in at a key moment in the life of a mystery novel. It’s done. Sort of. Not done in the sense of it being ready for the agent, but done in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged Brandon Blake, crime stories, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Gerry Boyle, Irish crime novels, Maine, Maine Crime Writers, Port City Black and White, Robert B. Parker, Robert Parker, Spenser novels | 5 Comments

Who’d Have Your Back?

Posted on January 20, 2013 by mainecrimewriters

John Clark here for what I hope will be a fun group post. Back in the mists of antiquity, when Little Egypt was a mere slip of a girl and bikinis had yet to be invented (well at least ten years … Continue reading →

Tagged Barb Ross, Barbara Havers, Barbara Ross, dennis lehane, Elizabeth George, Eve Dallas, favorite characters in fiction. Kate Flora, Group Post, Harry Dresden, Hawk, imaginary worlds, J. D. Robb, Janet Evanovich, Jim Butcher, Joss Whedon, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kenzie and Gennaro, Lea Wait, new books, Ranger, Robert B. Parker, Rubba Rogowski, Sherlock Holmes, Spencer, Stephanie Plum | 9 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

My Desert Island Mystery Bookshelf

Posted on May 6, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Kate Flora here, on a rainy day, thinking about weeding my bookshelves, which are double-shelved and groaning. I got distracted, thinking about all the books I can never let go of, and that led me to the question, for my … Continue reading →

Tagged An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, Andrew Pyper, Charlaine Harris, Charlotte MacLeod, China Trade, Dracula, Edmund Crispin, Elizabeth Peters, Group Post, In Cold Blood, James Ellroy, James Lee Burke, John Ajvide Lindqvist, John LeCarre, Jonathan Carroll, Josh Bazell, Julia Spencer-Fleming, Kate Flora, Kate Ross, Lindsay Davis, Margaret Maron, Minette Walters, P.D. James, Paul Doiron, Robert B. Parker, Rose Macaulay, S.J. Rozan, Steve Hockensmith, Susan Hill, The Executioner's Song, The Glimpses of the Moon, The Godwulf Manuscript, The Ice House, The Maltese Falcon, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Thomas Pynchon, Tony Hillerman, Walter Mosley | 6 Comments

A Time to Kill

Posted on August 12, 2011 by mainecrimewriters

Hi there. Gerry here. Just want to let you know that plummeting stock markets, reckless politicians, crazed rioters in England—all this bad news makes me want to kill somebody. So I did. No, don’t call the cops. But I did … Continue reading →