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Irish Cream by Andrew M Greeley Countless readers have been delighted by Father Andrew M. Greeley's bestselling tales of Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish-speaking woman from Galway blessed with the gift of second sight and a knack for unraveling mysteries, and her hapless husband and accomplice, Dermot Michael Coyne. From Irish Gold through Irish Stew! this spirited couple has untangled many a knotty mystery, both at home in Chicago and back in Erin. Now they return in another captivating blend of romance, humor, and intrigue Damian "Day" O'Sullivan is a troubled
young man who blames himself for a tragic vehicular homicide he may not have committed.
Trouble is, Day's entire family seems to be conspiring to pin the crime on the poor lad,
which only leads Nuala and Dermot to wonder who really ran over (three times!) Rodney
Keefe in the parking lot of a ritzy Chicago country club. |
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The O'Sullivans are a ruthlessly ambitious clan
of South Side Irish, who consider themselves the cream of the Irish-American community.
The sensitive Day has always been something of a black sheep in the family---and perhaps a
scapegoat as well. But the twisted saga of the
O'Sullivans isn't the only mystery to be unraveled. Having stumbled onto the diary of
Father Richard Lonigan, a nineteenth-century parish priest assigned to a remote village in
old Donegal, Dermot and Nuala find themselves caught up in the closely guarded secrets and
scandals of that desolate time and place, where simmering resentment against the ruling
English sometimes erupted into violence and murder.... |
Keep in touch... Locally, and Globally!  Check out Andrew M. Greeley's Columns for the Chicago SunTimes' Daily Southtown. |
