Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $21.95 (334p) ISBN 978-0-312-85813-1
Greeley kicks off a new mystery series with this slick, if far-fetched, entry revolving around a hidden fortune in gold and the real-life, still unsolved, question of who killed Free Irish leader Michael Collins in 1922. Dermot Coyne, a 24-year-old...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author . Forge $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-86874-1
Full of unexpected turns and twists, Greeley's popular series featuring the wry, resourceful Bishop John Blackwood Ryan continues, with the spiritual sleuth on the hunt for a young, charismatic priest missing in Paris. Blackie, as Ryan is fondly
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $14.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-87749-1
Professor, priest and bestselling novelist Andrew M. Greeley's tale of love and conflict in a heathen world also gets a welcome reissue. In The Final Planet, Seamus O'Neill, an unwilling diplomat and spy for the space-traveling Holy Order of St.
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0236-6
Greeley s irrepressible and fiercely liberal O Malley family carries on lustily in this sixth chronicle of their adventures. Charles (usually Chuck, often Chucky, and even Chucky Ducky, none of which names he objects to) is a former foreign...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0333-2
In The Bishop Goes to University: A Blackie Ryan Story, by the reliably entertaining Andrew M. Greeley, Bishop Ryan looks into a Russian Orthodox monk's murder at the divinity school of the University on Chicago's South Side. A locked-room...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Warner Books $18.45 (436p) ISBN 978-0-446-51295-4
That extended Irish family, the Ryans, are back in Greeley's latest novel, and once again the world is divided into two kinds of womenthe embittered ones and the warm, motherly sortand two kinds of familiesthose who pull together against all odds,...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Warner Books $0 (451p) ISBN 978-0-446-51293-0
The Irish, Dr. Johnson said, are a very fair racethey never speak well of one another. Greeley (The Cardinal Sins, Virgin and Martyr) lays into the Irish clergy, cops and politicians with great gusto in his best book yet. Ann Reilly is a 50-ish art...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Warner Books $18.45 (442p) ISBN 978-0-446-51455-2
Conor Clarke is an extremely handsome entrepreneur who writes gushing ``love songs,'' or poems. Love Song itself is no less exuberant, but Greeley expects a lot of his readers. They'll be asked to believe that stunning U.S. district attorney Diana...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Warner Books $17.45 (304p) ISBN 978-0-446-51437-8
Greeley (Lord of the Dance) has now written a murky ``romantic mystery/fantasy'' about a Nobel laureate who is astounded when a lissome guardian angel in couture garb comes to earth to protect him. Sean Desmond, a theoretical biologist, hasn't been...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (367p) ISBN 978-0-399-13723-5
Greeley ( The Cardinal Sins ) spins another romantic and eminently readable tale of love, politics and scandal among the powerful Irish Catholic families who, in this priest's fiction, run the city and the Archdiocese of Chicago. Dr. Kieran O'Kerriga
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Warner Books $18.45 (435p) ISBN 978-0-446-51475-0
A recurring theme of the prolific Greeley ( Angels of September ) surfaces again here: a character says his wife ``was an old love lost and then found again.'' Famous TV reporter Neal Conner ( ne Cornelius O'Connor), covering the 1987 special...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Tor Books $0 (372p) ISBN 978-0-312-85002-9
Stereotypes and negative women abound in Father Greeley's ( The Cardinal Sins ) distasteful collection of 23 stories, 16 of which were previously published. Shrewd Cindasoo, who thwarts the theft of securities valued at a half-million dollars, is...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (351p) ISBN 978-0-399-13634-4
``Do you canonize a rich and ambitious son of a bitch who bought ecclesiastical promotion at the same time as he was carrying on a lifelong romance with another man's wife?'' That's for Father Laurence McAuliffe (last seen in The Cardinal Virtues )...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Tor Books $18.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-312-85109-5
Catholic priest, sociology professor (University of Arizona) and novelist ( Rite of Spring ), Greeley contends that despite conventional wisdom, much-touted alternative lifestyles, polls and media reports to the contrary, marriage is not only...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Putnam Publishing Group $21.95 (349p) ISBN 978-0-399-13752-5
Throughout this fast-paced, intricately plotted novel, the popular author ( Ascent into Hell ), sociologist and priest burnishes his reputation for psychological acumen and deep acquaintance with the discords of family life. Chicago entrepreneur...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Crossroad Publishing Company $17.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8245-1198-2
In a manner of a religious mystic, Greeley sets down his groping, rhapsodic prayers to ``my Love'' or ``Her''--meaning God--in this year-long journal. Through a daily , missive to his ``Lady Love,'' the priest, novelist and sociologist summons up...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $24.95 (285p) ISBN 978-0-312-86875-8
The lighthearted Bishop Blackie returns with this thoroughly beguiling entry in Greeley's series detailing the misadventures of venerable Bishop John Blackwood Ryan, the erudite assistant to Sean Cardinal Cronin, archbishop of Chicago. An...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85814-8
A priest's collar adorns Greeley's neck, of course, and the title refers to the smoke issued from the Vatican when a new pope is chosen-but you don't have to be Catholic to enjoy the author's wise and witty latest (after Irish Gold). For all the...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86080-6
In an engaging if opportunistic plundering of publishing trends, Greeley unites angels and the Internet in a saccharine tale based on the Old Testament's Book of Tobias. Narrator Toby Tobin, a young Chicagoan, is a computer hacker who stands to...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86234-3
Greeley takes a big step forward with the second in this new series (after Irish Gold, 1994) starring Nuala (""Noola"") Anne McGrail. The 20-year-old Irish immigrant is beautiful, psychic, a gifted singer, charmingly fey and now in Chicago....
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $24.95 (383p) ISBN 978-0-312-86571-9
While pulling occupation duty with the First Constabulary Regiment in post-WWII Bamberg, Germany, brave, ""dangerously smart"" Sergeant Charles ""Chuck"" O'Malley is assigned to help an FBI agent locate a family of Nazis wanted by the Russians as...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $111.6 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86500-9
Not your average Christmas tale, this big-hearted but saccharine short novel sets up callow Boston College student Jack Flanigan with beautiful, soulful Harvard undergrad Tatiana Alexseevna Shuskulya, just in time for Advent. A Russian studies major,
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86082-0
Despite having more than 30 novels under his clerical collar (many of them bestsellers), Greeley shows no signs of slowing down. His new romantic thriller is replete with his trademark steamy sex, complicated relationships and left-leaning church...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Berkley $7.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-16080-0
Weird things are happening on the Langley, a nuclear-powered U.S. Navy aircraft carrier commanded by Cardinal Sean Chronin's cousin. A ghost seems to haunt the claustrophobic vastness of the ship. Buoyed by anti-seasick medicine, Greeley's hero,...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-85596-3
The veteran Greeley plots this latest work with some admirable cunning, which shows up clearly in a highly believable trading expose and in the exacting re-creation of the supposed death of an enigmatic crime lord from Capone-era Chicago....
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $23.95 (319p) ISBN 978-0-312-86569-6
Sexy, foul-mouthed singer Nuala Anne McGrail and her deferential husband, Dermot Michael Coyne, are back in another emerald-hued mystery (after Irish Whiskey). Since Nuala Anne's folk-singing career has taken off, Dermot has quit the commodities...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-87187-1
Father Greeley's deep and obvious love for the history and culture of Ireland shines through in his latest contemporary mystery (following Irish Eyes) involving singer/psychic Nuala Anne McGrail and her American writer husband, Dermot Michael Coyne--
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $24.95 (348p) ISBN 978-0-312-86572-6
The leisurely, enjoyable sequel to Greeley's A Midwinter's Tale again follows the O'Malley family of Chicago. Here he chronicles the romantic and spiritual fortunes of returned soldier Chuck O'Malley, who comes home in 1949, having been stationed...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-86964-9
Greeley offers Furthermore! as a companion volume to Confessions of a Parish Priest, the autobiography he published 15 years ago. Greeley styles his latest work as a self-evaluation of his careers as novelist, sociologist and priest. His narrative...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author University of California Press $35 (213p) ISBN 978-0-520-22085-0
Readers familiar with Greeley's previous nonfiction works will find this extended essay a variation on a familiar theme. Greeley--a Catholic priest, sociologist and novelist who teaches at the University of Chicago and the University of Arizona--posi
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $24.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0338-7
The Irish-American O'Malley clan ushers in the 1980s in Golden Years, the sixth volume in Andrew M. Greeley's unabashedly old-fashioned (though curiously sex-laced) series. Chucky O'Malley, a former ambassador, and his doting wife, Rosemarie, a New...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $24.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2223-4
At the start of Greeley's spirited 12th Nuala Anne McGrail novel (after 2008's Irish Tiger
), his feisty heroine delivers a black belt kick to the unlikable new principal's stomach in a schoolyard brawl involving all four of her...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author . Forge $24.95 (317p) ISBN 978-0-312-87225-0
This fourth installment in Father Greeley's ongoing O'Malley family saga (A Midwinter's Tale; Younger Than Springtime; Christmas Wedding) focuses on the spitfire Irish Chuck O'Malley and his gorgeous wife, Rosemarie. Set against the...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author . Forge $25.95 (303p) ISBN 978-0-312-87188-8
The prolific cleric plops his psychic singer heroine and her family into a delicious stew of trouble in his latest crowd pleaser. The "fey" Nuala (last seen in 2001's Irish Love) senses that self-made Chicago lawyer and tough guy Seamus...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author . Forge $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-86873-4
Fun is the word for bestseller Greeley's latest, lively Bishop Blackie (aka Blackwell) Ryan thriller. It's not a whodunit, but a hoodoo-done-it, the mystery being Who's the hoodoo? A poltergeist is stalking the corridors of the White...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author . Univ. of California $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-520-23817-6
Greeley may be better known as a novelist than a sociologist, but in this latest book he is in full professional stride, offering studied observations on his Church in the years since the landmark Second Vatican Council (1962–65). As the...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author . Forge $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1052-1
Greeley's experience as both a priest with 50 years of service to the Catholic Church and as a bestselling storyteller (The Cardinal Sins
, etc.) perfectly equips him to take on the difficult subject of sexual abuse and its ensuing coverup....
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author . Forge $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0335-6
In the eighth installment in Greeley's immensely entertaining Irish series (after 2002's Irish Stew!
), Nuala Anne and her husband, Dermot Coyne, once again look into mysteries past and present: the first chronicled in the diaries of Father...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author . Forge $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0334-9
The first half of Greeley's fifth Bishop Blackie Ryan book (after 2003's The Bishop Goes to the University
) drags a bit, but the pace picks up when Blackie starts digging into the past of Father Mikal Wolodyjowski, the charismatic priest at
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author . Forge $24.95 (301p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0336-3
In Greeley's cute ninth Nuala Anne McGrail novel (after 2005's Irish Cream
), beautiful Nuala Anne, who's fey, wakes one morning in a particularly dark mood from a nightmare prefiguring disaster. Soon after, a car bombing strikes the...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author . Forge $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-765-31591-5
Prolific author and priest Greeley (Irish Crystal
) stumbles with this story of a liberal Catholic senator from Illinois who bursts onto the national political stage. Thomas Patrick Moran first attracts attention when he announces his candidacy for...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author . Forge $25.95 (351p) ISBN 978-0-765-31586-1
Readers who can endure the juvenile sex talk at the start of Greeley's 10th Nuala Anne McGrail novel (after 2006's Irish Crystal
) will be rewarded with a mildly entertaining mystery. When Nuala Anne, singer and sometime psychic, learns that
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author . Forge $17.95 (172p) ISBN 978-0-765-31776-6
Father Andrew Greeley is well known for his sometimes spicy murder mysteries and his always progressive view of religion in general and the Catholic Church in particular. It comes as no surprise that he would pen this delightful exploration of Jesus&
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author . Forge $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1589-2
In Greeley’s winning sixth Blackie Ryan novel (after 2006’s The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood
), Ryan’s boss, the archbishop of Chicago, sends Ryan to check up on Malachi Howard-Nolan, a fellow priest who’s jockeying for a...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author . Forge $24.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-7653-4237-9
Nuala Anne McGrail, fey Irish singer and part-time psychic problem solver, takes on another mission of the heart in her 11th adventure (after 2007's Irish Linen
). Maria Angelica Sabattini Connors is a widow and real estate whiz whose Elegant...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author . Forge $24.95 (269p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1590-8
Greeley's breezy 17th Blackie Ryan novel (after 2007's The Bishop at the Lake
) takes Ryan to the south of Spain for a conference, where the local cardinal requests his help preventing the murder of a beautiful and wealthy widow, Doñ
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-86570-2
Nuala Anne McGrail and husband, Dermot Michael Coyne, are bewitched by their new baby daughter, red-haired, green-eyed Nellie Coyne, who proves to be as fey as her mother in this latest puzzle from prolific priest Greeley (Irish Gold, Irish Lace,...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author . Forge $14.99 (191p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2250-0
Only one book a year can claim to be the schlockiest, most saccharine Christmas book, and this is it. Petey Pat Kane and Mariana Pelligrino have loved each other since the first grade, but a tragic prom night accident sends Kane running. He ends up...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Mysterious Press $31.5 (320p) ISBN 978-0-89296-180-1
Greeley (The Cardinal Sins does his best work yet in this multigenerational mystery with real puzzles and strong characters. Chicago matriarch and real-estate tycoon Violet Harrington Enright has dominated and largely ruined the lives of her...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Warner Books $28 (464p) ISBN 978-0-446-51478-1
This extremely busy follow-up to The Cardinal Sins brings back Father Larry McAuliffe (aka Lar), the former ``bomb-throwing radical'' now ``disillusioned'' pastor of St. Finian's parish. Pressure from the Cardinal persuades Lar to take on an...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author University of Chicago Press $19 (156p) ISBN 978-0-226-30644-5
Greeley, a professor of social science at two universities (Chicago and Arizona), draws upon the tools of his trade to challenge some stereotypes of the priesthood today, particularly in the wake of the sexual abuse crisis of 2002, which he...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Jove Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-515-10726-5
Beautiful, rich Clare Turner is on death row, condemned for slitting the throats of her adopted parents. Now Terry Scanlan, the prosecutor who put her there, has fallen in love with her and become convinced that he's convicted an innocent woman. It's
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Grand Central Publishing $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-36222-1
A mysterious woman named Maggie rekindles the sexuality and religious faith of a man tortured by WW II memories; as usual, Roman Catholic priest Greeley's cardboard characters and cliched dialogue are the stuff of screenplays. (Apr.)
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Scribner Book Company $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19184-3
With characteristic insouciance, Greeley, professor of sociology at the University of Arizona and bestselling novelist, sets himself the task of defining contemporary Catholicism as practiced in the U.S. What he describes as ``the fascinating,...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Warner Books $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-36031-9
TV reporter Neal Conner attends a 30th grammar school reunion, where he begins a torrid affair with a recently, mysteriously widowed childhood sweetheart. Enter Cuban drug dealers, the Mafia and kidnappers. If the final clinch is long in coming, ``Gr
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Warner Books $32 (464p) ISBN 978-0-446-51476-7
If none of Greeley's 10 successful novels have been turned into a movie, it's surely through no lack of zeal on the author's part. His full-length fictions are closer to screenplays than they are to novels, replete with cardboard characters, cliched
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Grand Central Publishing $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-36094-4
Father Larry McAuliffe (aka Lar) fights to save a young priest whose controversial homilies have offended the leader of an ultra-right-wing Catholic group. ``While the plot is plausible, Greeley simply fails to engage us; with the possible exception
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Jove Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-515-11075-3
Father Greeley ( Happy Are the Meek ) not only kissed the Blarney Stone but swallowed it whole for this masterful Bishop ``Blackie'' Ryan whodunit. Setting it in Dublin on Bloomsday, Greeley makes James Joyce as much a part of the plot as the IRA....
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Crossroad Publishing Company $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8245-1398-6
Ferry, who was born in 1952 in a suburb of Toronto, tried much of his early life to suppress his homosexuality because of his strong Anglican faith. His marriage proved to be unsuccessful, and Ferry found himself, even as he studied for the...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Jove Books $6.99 (295p) ISBN 978-0-515-11502-4
Bishop Blackie Ryan is never deterred by a mystery, especially when members of his Chicago parish are affected. The popular hero of Happy Are the Meek, Ryan must try to save a troubled family and prevent murder in this engrossing outing. When young...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author Forge $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-87224-3
amiable third novel to feature the happy O'Malleys of Chicago (after A Midwinter's Tale and Younger Than Springtime) has a scant six pages devoted to the 1950 wedding itself, and not a sprig of holly in sight. The book primarily chronicles the 11...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author, Jacob Neusner, With, Martin E. Marty, Foreword by Pilgrim Press $16.95 (360p) ISBN 978-0-8298-1120-9
What happens when two of the most prolific religion scholars in America sit down and, together, read sacred texts (some of which they have in common) of their different religions? Will they engage in a genuine dialogue? Or will their readings...
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Andrew M. Greeley, Author, Oliver Wyman, Read by MacMillan Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59397-408-4
In an interview at the end of this audiobook, sociologist and priest Greeley confesses that the idea for this story stemmed from a letter sent to him by a young clergyman. Like the novel's protagonist, Herman Hoffman, the correspondent found...
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