Friends,
The 13th McMorrow novel, Robbed Blind, is out. I love this one, not that they all don’t have a special place in my crime-novelist heart.
In Robbed Blind, Jack McMorrow is seeing his world start to crumble at the edges. Reporting on a Maine mill city besieged by a serial armed robber in a zombie mask, Jack enters the world of nightshifters, the denizens of the darkness who work and lurk when the rest of the city is asleep. Sparrow, a pierced-up young woman behind the counter at a 24-hour convenience store. Riff, her dying punk-rocker father. Raymond, a solitary guy who has recreated his Catholic childhood in his home, now filled with the cast-off statues of closed churches. Meth-heads, a dirty cop, a refugee from the Portland P.D. named Brandon Blake (see the Port City series), who the street has dubbed “Shooter.”
On the home front, McMorrow faces off with the head of a backwoods militia, who loses face and vows revenge. Jack’s daughter, Sophie, is dancing on TikTok, wearing snowshoes and a bikini. As things close in on all fronts, McMorrow’s story is shelved after social media reports he’s carrying a gun while on New York Times business. “The gun thing is problematic these days,” he’s told.
The times are changing, and McMorrow is slugging it out the only way he knows how. He’s on his own for this one, which I liked. Clair and Louis off on a different mission. It’s time to see what Jack McMorrow’s really got.
Hope you enjoy.
PS I’ll be out and about for this one, starting Dec. 5, at 7 p.m. at the Greene Block in Waterville. On Dec. 15, also at 7 p.m. , I’ll be at the Yarmouth (Maine) Public Library. And Jan. 19 it will be the Lewiston Library at noon. More as the dates approach. Questions? Email me at gerry@gerryboyle.com
