Gerry Boyle Reading at the Graves Library

"As part of the Patsy Bray Mahoney Lecture Series, we are pleased to welcome crime novelist Gerry Boyle to the Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library on Saturday, November 1, at 2:00 p.m.

Mr. Boyle will read from his books, Hard Line and Robbed Blind and discuss the writing process. Hard Line is an award winner for the 2025 National Independent Publisher Book Awards. His character Jack McMorrow has been in his books for over thirty years. Gerry Boyle is a prolific author known for over a dozen acclaimed crime novels, including the Jack McMorrow mystery series, which has been translated into six languages. Other McMorrow novels, including Random Act and Straw Man, were awarded the Maine Literary Award for crime fiction. With a background as a newspaper reporter and columnist, Boyle draws inspiration from his crime reporting for his writing. He resides in a small village in central Maine.