Gerry Boyle

Gerry Boyle (born 1956) is an American novelist.

Early life

The grandson of Irish immigrants, Boyle was born in Chicago. His parents soon moved to Rhode Island, and he graduated from high school in Warwick, RI, then attended Colby College in Maine, majoring in literature, and began to write short stories and poetry.

Career

Boyle's first career was in journalism. He began as a reporter at the "Rumford Falls Times", a weekly in Rumford, a Maine paper-mill town, then moved to the "Morning Sentinel", a daily in Waterville, Maine, his old college town, going on to become a full-time columnist on the paper.

As Boyle traveled around Maine looking for stories, he invented a freelance journalist-detective called Jack McMorrow. The first McMorrow mystery, "Deadline", was published in 1993. Two years later, it was followed by "Bloodline", and there are now eight books in the series.

Boyle left the "Morning Sentinel" in 1999 but until 2001 continued to write a column for the paper from time to time. In 2000, he became editor of the Colby college magazine, www.colby.edu/mag .

Private life

Boyle married Mary Victoria Foley, a schoolteacher. They have three children and live in a village in Central Maine.

Novels

*"Deadline" (North Country Press, Maine, 1993)
*"Bloodline" (Putnam, 1995)
*"Lifeline" (1996)
*"Potshot" (1997)
*"Borderline" (1998)
*"Cover Story" (1999)
*"Pretty Dead" (2003)
*"Home Body" (2004)

References

* [http://www.gerryboyle.com/about_gb/ About Gerry Boyle] at gerryboyle.com
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/gerry-boyle/ Gerry Boyle] at fantasticfiction.co.uk