Wednesday, May 20th at noon in the Rines Auditorium
Portland, Maine - Gerry Boyle will appear at the Portland Public Library’s Brown Bag Lecture Series on Wednesday, May 20th at noon. Boyle will be speaking about his new book, Once Burned. In the book, there's something smoldering in the drop-dead pretty town of Sanctuary, Maine, and veteran crime reporter Jack McMorrow is back to sniff it out. In this long-awaited tenth installment of the wildly popular McMorrow mystery series, best-selling author Gerry Boyle crafts a smoking-hot story that will keep you riveted until the very last page. For the moment, life is briefly as it should be for Jack McMorrow: He and his wife Roxanne have retreated from the stress and danger of their day jobs to raise their daughter Sophie. But when development and arson threaten the nearby town of Sanctuary, and a crazy accident brings back mistakes from Roxanne's past, Jack's nose for crime leads him into a dark and deeply twisted tale, taking the reader alongside as he hunts a killer with a long memory and a very short fuse.
About the author
Like many crime novelists, Boyle began his writing career in newspapers, the best training ground ever. After Colby College, he knocked around, including stints as a roofer, a postman, and a manuscript reader at a big New York publisher. His first reporting job was with a weekly in the paper mill town of Rumford, Maine. After a few months it was on to the (Waterville, Maine) Morning Sentinel, where editors learned early on that he worked best when left to his own devices. He wrote about stuff he saw in police stations, courtrooms, in the towns and cities of Maine. Deadline came out in 1993. With an assist from Robert B. Parker, he landed a top-flight literary agent and the books came steadily after that. McMorrow and Boyle grew up together, though at different rates. He is the author of nine previous McMorrow titles, as well as the Brandon Blake mystery series.
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