Pete Morin
Biography
In my adult life, I’ve been a trial attorney, a politician, a bureaucrat, a lobbyist, and (I like to think) an observant witness to human behavior. I’ve tried to combine all of them in my debut novel, Diary of a Small Fish.
My creative writing began at the University of Vermont in the mid-1970’s, where I was very fortunate to have studied under award winning authors David Huddle and T. Alan Broughton. Following college, I pursued a wide-ranging career in law and politics in which I served three terms in the Massachusetts Legislature and two years as general counsel of the MBTA. In what some friends peg a mid-life crisis, I returned to writing fiction in 2007.I now split my time between fiction and law.
My short fiction has appeared in NEEDLE, A Magazine of Noir, Words With Jam, 100 Stories for Haiti, and Words to Music. I republished many of them in a collection titled Uneasy Living.
When I’m not writing crime fiction or practicing law, I play blues guitar in Boston bars, enjoy food and wine with my wife of 28 years, Elizabeth, and our two adult children. On increasingly rare occasions, I play a round of golf. We live in a money pit on the seacoast south of Boston, in an area once known as the Irish Riviera.
I am very lucky to be represented by Christine Witthohn of Book Cents Literary Agency.
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Smashwords book reviews by Pete Morin
- Loisaida -- A New York Story
on Nov. 08, 2010
One of the first things a virgin visitor notices about New York City is the air. Especially in the summer, the weight of the city, its gestalt, its vibe, hangs in the air. It's more than smog. It is the very lives of the inhabitants emitting their inimitable energy.
Marion Stein's LOISADA captures that air from the opening paragraph and doesn't let it go. I read this novel almost non-stop, with a break to eat, sleep, and wipe the Manhattan grit from my face.
One reviewer comments that the novel begins choppy and slightly disorienting before you discern its structure. While there is some truth to that, it is no different than the initial disorientation of entering Manhattan itself. Once oriented, this story screams along at an exhausting pace. You can smell the body odor, the urine, the stale sex.
What I find most impressive about Stein's storytelling is that all along, as we follow the main character on his mission to "solve" the mystery of Ingrid's murder, we are aware he is going to fail - and yet the tension of his hunt prevails.
Few novelists can pull off a multiple POV story with such power and complexity. Stein captures the flavor of New York in a fashion that would give Jimmy Breslin goosebumps.
- All I Want
on April 23, 2011
Another brilliantly crafted piece from Shayne Parkinson. Once more, she demonstrates the perfect balance of craft and creativity and her understanding of the human soul.
- Peril: A Ger Mayes Thriller
on July 25, 2011
Ruby Barnes is a very funny man. The anti-hero of Peril, Ger Mayes, is a scoundrel, a lovable rogue, a thoroughly incompetent reprobate whose cavalcade of tribulations goes from ridiculous to hopeless. This is a rollicking good read that guarantees to entertain.
Barnes is in the fine tradition of Irish storytellers.
