The Bishop and the Missing L Train
About the Author:
Andrew M. Greeley
Readers of Andrew
M. Greeley’s Father Blackie Ryan and Nuala Anne McGrail mystery novels can
easily forget he is one of the most influential Catholic thinkers and religious
sociologists in America
today. Nuala McGrail is married to Dermot Michael Coyne who is Father Blackie’s
nephew, and they appear in each others’ novels as part of one large Irish
family in Chicago. Just as Greeley
has become an archbishop, his alter-ego Father Blackie Ryan becomes a bishop in
the novels.
Nuala Anne, an
Irish-speaking naturalized American, with her somewhat hapless husband, Dermot Michael Coyne, uses her gift
of second sight to resolve mysteries that frequently involve political issues
of law. She finds herself erroneously accused of vague crimes under The Patriot
Act in Irish Crystal. In the recently released Irish Linen, Greeley
through Nuala Anne, criticizes government cover-ups in. In this case, when
soldier Desmond Doolin disappears in Iraq
and the government won’t acknowledge it, Nuala Anne and Dermot set out to find
young Desmond.
Other Nuala Ann
books are: Irish Gold, Irish Lace, Irish
Whiskey, Irish Mist, Irish Eyes, Irish Love, Irish Stew, and Irish Cream.
Father Blackie Ryan books: Happy are the Meek, Happy are the Clean of
Heart, Happy are the Oppressed, The Bishop at Sea, The Bishop and the Missing L
Train, The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain, The Bishop in the West
Wing, The Bishop Goes to the University, The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood, and
the recent 2007 The Bishop at the Lake.
Greeley is presently Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona and a Research Associate with the National Opinion Research Center of the University of Chicago.
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