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Contract With An Angel
Andrew Greeley never fails to disappoint his fans and this book is no exception! I found this tale to be exceptional. I kept asking myself, "What if? What if I knew my time on earth was limited, what would I change?" R.A. Neenan is confronted by Michael an angel resembling Michael Jordan, who contracts with Neenan in changing his life before his impending death. Neenan must completely change each close familial relationship in his life, which has become ...
Irish Gold
Irish Gold Andrew M. Greeley Tom Doherty Associates, LLC; 1994, 336 PP ISBN: 0312858132 This is the first book in Greeley's Nuala Anne McGrail series of mysteries in which Dermot Michael Coyne of Chicago and Nuala Anne McGrail of Carraroe in County Galway, Ireland, solve mysteries from both the past and present. Greeley appears to meticulously research controversial events from the past to come to a conclusion that differs from conventional wisdo...
Irish Lace – A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel
Irish Lace – A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel Andrew M. Greeley Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1996, 303 PP ISBN: 0-312-86234-2 Nuala (pronounced Noola) Anne McGrail has finished Trinity College Dublin and has moved to Chicago where she works as an accountant for Arthur Anderson by day and sings Irish ballads a couple of nights a week at a grungy Chicago Pub. Dermot Coyne is also back home in Chicago dividing his time between courting Nuala Anne and pur...
Irish Mist – A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel
Irish Mist – A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel Andrew M. Greeley Thorndike Press (large print edition), 1999, 513 pp. ISBN: 0-7862-3085-1 Dermot Coyne and Nula Anne have been married for a year when this, the fourth novel in the series opens. Nula Ann's plan to have three children before she is twenty-six appears to be a little behind schedule as she is not yet pregnant at the start of the novel. But, just as one of the themes in "Irish Lace" was their ...

Greeley booklist

Irish Stew!
Forge, Mar 2002, 25.95, 303 pp. ISBN: 0312871880 Dermot Michael Coyne accompanies his wife Nuala Anne McGrail as she performs at the Celtic international music festival in Milan. While in Italy, Dermot and Nuala Anne meet fellow Chicago resident Seamus Costelloe and his family. After unceremoniously dumping Seamus into the pool for insulting his wife, Dermot and Nuala Anne agree to joining the Costelloe brood for dinner. Nuala Anne noticed...
Irish Stew! A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel
Irish Stew! A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel Andrew Greeley Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2002, 360 pp. ISBN: 0-812-57607-1 As in the other novels in this series, the action starts immediately. May and Nuala Anne and Dermot are bringing home their third child, Socra Marie. With the addition of Socra Marie, Dermot and Nuala Anne now have three children plus two Irish Wolfhounds, a housekeeper and a nanny. Socra Marie was born prematurely ...
Irish Whiskey – A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel
Irish Whiskey – A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel Andrew M. Greeley Tom Doherty Associates, 1998, 317 pp. ISBN: 0-312-85596-6 With their wedding two weeks away, Dermot Coyne and Nuala Anne McGrail have their hands full with problem relatives, a seventy year old murder mystery and a new investigation by the authorities into the commodities transaction that is the foundation of Dermot's financial independence. While accompanying Dermot on a visit to his...
Second Spring
Forge, Apr 2003, 24.95, 352 pp. ISBN: 0765302365 Happily married to his beloved Rosemarie and father to five adult children and three grandchildren that he adores and loves Charles “Chucky” Cronin still worries about the future. He remains a faithful Catholic, but wonders if perhaps the church abandoned its flock. He contemplates whether he is just suffering from a biological occurrence for someone turning fifty or a reaction to continual racia...
The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain
Forge, Jul 2001, 24.95, 252 pp. ISBN: 031286874X In the blink of an eye, the charismatic and incredibly handsome Frere Jean Claude Chretien becomes the toast of France through his dynamic TV sermons. While filming a show on the excavations at Notre Dame Cathedral, Frere Jean Claude vanishes. Desperate to reduce the uproar over the missing Frere Jean Claude, the Archbishop of Paris, aware of American Bishop Blackie Ryan's sleuthing skills, a...
The Bishop and the Three Kings – A Blackie Ryan Novel
The Bishop and the Three Kings – A Blackie Ryan Novel Andrew M. Greeley The Berkley Publishing Group – a member of Penguin Putnam, Inc., 1998, 298 pp. ISBN: 0-425-16617-1 Bishop John Blackwood Ryan, Blackie to his friends, is the auxiliary bishop of Chicago serving Sean Cardinal Cronin, the cardinal archbishop of Chicago. When not attending to pastoral duties, he doubles as an amateur detective solving mysteries. In this book Blackie is orde...

Andrew Greeley list of books

The Bishop at Sea
Father Blackie Ryan is called upon to solve a mystery aboard the U.S.S. Langley, an aircraft carrier. Father Ryan is known for his expertise in solving seemingly unsolveable puzzles. This time, an executive officer has come up missing and so have two of his employees. And it seems some of the crew have seen the officer's ghost roaming the ship at night. Once Father Ryan starts investingating, he realizes that nobody liked the officer and many could h...
The Bishop Goes to the University
Forge, Oct 2003, 24.95, 256 pp. ISBN: 0765303337 Cardinal Sean Cronin sends Bishop Blackwood Ryan to investigate the locked door murder of Russian Brother Semyon Ivanivich Popov. The Cardinal is more concerned with the wardrobe the police found at the crime scene than who killed this instructor at the University. Apparently Brother Semyon had garbs that are only given to archbishops and cardinals and His Eminent Lordship Cronin sarcastically be...
The Bishop in the West Wing
Forge, Jul 2002, 24.95, 288 pp. ISBN: 0312868731 United States President John Patrick McGurn has enough to deal with between the eastern established media and the Republicans. However, the Irish-American from Chicago, dubbed rancorously by the press as “Machine Gun Jack” and want to tie him with the Irish Mafia, has a poltergeist wrecking havoc in his new home, The White House. Jack asks long time friend and successful amateur sleuth Father Bl...