Books by Gerry Boyle and Complete Book Reviews

Gerry Boyle, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (325p) ISBN 978-0-425-19201-6
Boyle is at the top of his form in his riveting seventh novel (after 2000's Cover Story ) to feature Maine reporter Jack McMorrow. When Jack's significant other, social service worker Roxanne Masterson, investigates allegations of physical...
READ FULL REVIEW
Gerry Boyle, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-425-19611-3
If not quite as well paced as others in the series, Boyle's intense, suspense-filled eighth book (after 2003's Pretty Dead ) to feature freelance journalist Jack McMorrow nicely captures the mood of rural Maine, where violence seethes...
READ FULL REVIEW
Gerry Boyle, Author Down East Books $24.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-89272-796-4
Robert Parker fans who have yet to discover Boyle will be pleasantly surprised by his suspenseful ninth crime novel set in Maine featuring former New York Times reporter Jack McMorrow (after 2004's Home Body). Jack, his social worker wife,...
READ FULL REVIEW
Gerry Boyle, Author North Country Press (ME) $21.25 (299p) ISBN 978-0-945980-44-5
First-novelist Boyle deftly transplants a big-city noir atmosphere to the western Maine mill town of Androscoggin, where the discovery of a freelance photographer's body floating in the canal leads newspaper editor Jack McMorrow into a series of...
READ FULL REVIEW
Gerry Boyle, Author Putnam Adult $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14150-8
Jack McMorrow, seen before in Bloodline and Deadline, is a former New York Times reporter now working for a small paper in Maine. Covering the courthouse, he senses a good story in Donna Marchant, a young woman complaining of domestic abuse but...
READ FULL REVIEW
Gerry Boyle, Author Berkley Publishing Group $22.95 (371p) ISBN 978-0-425-16893-6
Once a New York Times reporter, Jack McMorrow left the city in the 1980s after a virulent falling-out with the paper's management. A decade later, he's back in Manhattan, settling the details for his gig as the Times's new northern New England...
READ FULL REVIEW
Gerry Boyle, Author Putnam Publishing Group $21.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-399-14030-3
Boyle's effective, low-key sequel to Deadline brings back ex-New York Times reporter Jack McMorrow, who is making a habit of getting in trouble in his new home in Prosperity, Maine. Jack has taken a high-paying assignment from New England Look...
READ FULL REVIEW
Gerry Boyle, Author Putnam Publishing Group $23.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-399-14259-8
Reporter Jack McMorrow, who left New York's rat race for calmer rural Maine, tangles with plotting rural hippies and vicious urban drug dealers in this timely, colorful adventure (his fourth, after Lifeline). At a country-life fair, Jack meets Bobby
READ FULL REVIEW
Gerry Boyle, Author Berkley Publishing Group $22.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-425-16147-0
Boyle's fifth book (after 1997's Potshot) about reporter Jack McMorrow, formerly of the New York Times and now working a mellower beat in Maine, starts off on a promising note before wandering off-key. Jack stumbles into a potentially explosive...
READ FULL REVIEW
Gerry Boyle. Down East, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-89272-957-9
Set in Portland, Maine, Boyle's gripping second Brandon Blake mystery (after 2009's Port City Shakedown) finds Blake hired by the Portland PD but on probation. When an early morning noise complaint brings Blake and Kat Malone, his partner and mentor,
READ FULL REVIEW
Gerry Boyle. Islandport (islandportpress.com), $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-939017-60-4
Plot, characterization, atmosphere—everything works in Boyle’s excellent 10th Jack McMorrow mystery (after 2010’s Damaged Goods). Needing a story to sell to the New York Times, freelance crime reporter McMorrow begins investigating minor cases of...
READ FULL REVIEW
Gerry Boyle. Islandport, $24.95 (334p) ISBN 978-1-939017-93-2
Boyle’s engrossing 11th Jack McMorrow Mystery (after 2015’s Once Burned) opens in the woods of Waldo County, Maine, with the freelance reporter and his friends, Clair and Louis, getting into a fight with men illegally harvesting lumber from an old...
READ FULL REVIEW
Gerry Boyle. Islandport, $16.95 trade paper (380p) ISBN 978-1-944762-68-1
Well-developed characters and convincing dialogue propel Boyle’s solidly plotted 12th mystery featuring Maine freelance journalist Jack McMorrow (after 2016’s Straw Man). While out shopping, Jack hears a scream from inside a box store. He rushes...
READ FULL REVIEW
X
Stay ahead with
Tip Sheet!
Free newsletter: the hottest new books, features and more
X
X
Email Address

Password

Log In Forgot Password

Premium online access is only available to PW subscribers. If you have an active subscription and need to set up or change your password, please click here.

New to PW? To set up immediate access, click here.

NOTE: If you had a previous PW subscription, click here to reactivate your immediate access. PW site license members have access to PW’s subscriber-only website content. If working at an office location and you are not "logged in", simply close and relaunch your preferred browser. For off-site access, click here. To find out more about PW’s site license subscription options, please email Mike Popalardo at: mike@nextstepsmarketing.com.

To subscribe: click here.