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Home Body
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There ain’t no rest for the wicked… In Home Body, the eighth Jack McMorrow Mystery, Jack has reformed his bad boy ways and settled into seeming domestic tranquility with a steady job and a very pregnant Roxane. But the quiet life is short-lived when Jack rescues a young homeless teen from a brutal gang beating. This Good Samaritan gesture rewards him with yet another descent into violence, murder, and the dark underworld of at-risk kids living on the street. As Jack prepares for the birth of his own child, his efforts to save somebody else’s child fail, and he must use all of his reporter’s tricks to track down a stalker. Who is the predator and who is the prey in a world where no one can be trusted? It’s a high stakes game of hide-and-seek; one that Jack can’t afford to lose.
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Release dateJul 19, 2017
ISBN9781944762179
Home Body
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Gerry Boyle

Gerry Boyle began his writing career working for newspapers—a start he calls the best training ground ever. After attending Colby College, he knocked around at various jobs, including stints as a roofer, a postman, and a manuscript reader at a big New York publisher. He began his newspaper career in the paper mill town of Rumford, Maine. There was a lot of small-town crime in Rumford and Gerry would later mine his Rumford time for his first novel, Deadline After a few months he moved on to the Morning Sentinel in Waterville, where editors gave him a thrice-weekly column and he wrote about stuff he saw in police stations and courtrooms in the towns and cities of Maine. All the while he was also typing away on a Smith-Corona electric typewriter, writing Deadline which marked his debut s a novelist in 1993. Since finishing Deadline, he has written eight additional Jack McMorrow stories with a tenth, Once Burned, scheduled for release in May 2015.

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