Ralph M. McInerny, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (346p) ISBN 978-0-312-09381-5
Although the unflappable Father Dowling plays a fairly slender role in his 16th case, fans of the sleuthing priest will surely welcome the heftier-than-usual read McInerny provides here. Margaret Sinclair, peppery scion of a wealthy small-town...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author Atheneum Books $0 (210p) ISBN 978-0-689-11894-4
Set in Wyler, Ind., this is the first in a new series featuring lawyer Andrew Broom, by the author of the Father Dowling mysteries. Agnes Walz and her lover, Jacob Fennel, hire a thug to kill Agnes's husband Wallace. But the killer bungles the job...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-312-00997-7
When Constance Farley Rush leaves her infant son in a basket at Fr. Dowling's church, she means to accuse her ex-husband, Peter Rush, of plotting to kidnap the baby. But as McInerny's 11th mystery develops, someone kills Rush, presenting the priest...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (164p) ISBN 978-0-312-02533-5
For the 12th time, McInerny amazes and amuses with a secular adventure of Fr. Dowling of St. Hilary's, Fox River, Ill. The elderly audience at the parish center is excited by the tricks played by a visiting magician. Dowling's curiosity, though, is...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author Atheneum Books $17.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-689-12036-7
The second story featuring Midwestern lawyer Andrew Broom, introduced in Cause and Effect , confirms McInerny's mastery of the light mystery, a skill displayed earlier in his Father Dowling series, now featured on TV. Here the reader learns early on
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (199p) ISBN 978-0-312-03345-3
The 13th entry in the Father Dowling series is disappointing and trite. McInerny's predictable formula does not work well in this anthology format; the introduction in each story of the regular cast of characters--Father Dowling, Marie Murkin,...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author Atheneum Books $0 (243p) ISBN 978-0-689-12080-0
The Fort Elbow campus of the University of Ohio is in an uproar. Chancellor Herbert Laplace, a champion of MADD, has been picked up for drunk driving after speeding away from a massage parlor. Although state senator Rod Bellini had appointed the...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-312-06375-7
Fans of McInerny's ( Abracadaver ) Father Dowling series, especially those who abhor the young nun assistant added for the TV show, will be delighted with this tale that mixes corporal sins with questions of theology. A seminary friend of Dowling's,
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author Atheneum Books $20 (215p) ISBN 978-0-689-12181-4
In the latest Andrew Broom mystery, an entertaining excursion into the small Indiana community of Wyler on the Tippecanoe River, the prolific author of the Father Dowling series introduces a disparate cast and then deftly connects them. Lawyer Broom'
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author Atheneum Books $19 (218p) ISBN 978-0-689-12132-6
In this darkly humorous situation comedy/mystery, the question is not ``whodunit?'' but ``who will take the blame?'' Lonely, 40-ish widow Susan Nebens nurses her wheelchair-bound father-in-law, Fred, a morbid old geezer who is fond of telling others
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-312-08177-5
The latest mystery from McInerney ( Judas Priest ), a competent, unremarkable addition to his Father Dowling series, has the glib neatness of a pilot for a TV series. Although Dowling has serious reservations about the verdict, his friend Phil...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author Five Star (ME) $26.95 (251p) ISBN 978-0-7862-5234-3
A bungled kidnapping by two inept psychiatrists sets the tone for The Ablative Case, a lighthearted stand-alone from Anthony winner Ralph McInerny, creator of Father Dowling and author of Emerald Aisle (Forecasts, Sept. 24, 2001) and other titles
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-312-11283-7
In the 17th Father Dowling mystery (following Seed of Doubt), McInerney delivers a history of the American Catholic Church's stand on marriage and separation, the Vatican's view of this stance and some varying attitudes of priests and laity....
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author Scribner Book Company $20.5 (252p) ISBN 978-0-684-80462-0
McInerny's fifth Andrew Broom title (after Mom and Dead) tees off on the seventh fairway of a country-club course, where wealthy investor Edgar Bissonet, apparently the victim of a heart attack, is found dead. But lawyer Broom suspects the man died...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-14746-4
McInerny's 17th Father Dowling novel (A Cardinal Offense, 1994, etc.) combines the familiar St. Hilary's parish setting and cast--Fox River police Captain Phil Keegan; cops Cy Horvath, Agnes Lamb and Peanuts Pianone; lawyer Tuttle; rectory...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-20345-0
In his third mystery set at the venerable University of Notre Dame (following Lack of the Irish), McInerny, author of the Father Dowling series, spins a tale of academic mayhem around the issue of tenure. Two young philosophy professors, Amanda Pick
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author Thomas Dunne Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-20309-2
Mimi O'Toole is hoping for a miracle when she asks Father Dowling in the hospital for absolution for her dying husband, a shooting victim. Vincent O'Toole was known to be an associate of the Pianone crime family, and his funeral draws every notable...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-20346-7
Fans of academic whodunits will find much to chuckle over in this fourth Notre Dame mystery (On This Rockne, etc.) from the creator of Father Dowling, featuring the sleuthing Knight brothers, the hulking Roger and private detective Philip. A series...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author Five Star (ME) $26.95 (300p) ISBN 978-0-7862-4179-8
Thomas Aquinas scholar and author of the Father Dowling mystery series, Ralph McInerny turns his attentions to the seedier side of life with As Good As Dead, in which a hit man hired by a dying woman finds his job complicated by two unwelcome ...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (263p) ISBN 978-0-312-32417-9
In Ralph McInerny's Requiem for a Realtor: A Father Dowling Mystery, the 23rd entry in this reliably entertaining series (Her Death of Cold, etc.), the devoted priest of St. Hilary's parish receives an unexpected call from realtor Stanley Collins,...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-32419-3
Long-germinating grudges blossom into bloody revenge in Ralph McInerny's Green Thumb: A Mystery Set at the University of Notre Dame, the eighth entry in a light series noted for its Irish wit and wisdom. When an eminent Notre Dame alumnus and...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-312-36456-4
At the start of McInerny's uplifting 27th Father Dowling mystery (after 2007's The Widow's Mate
), a stranger asks the pastor of St. Hilary's if it's all right for the priest to have put ashes on his forehead. After all, as...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-26938-8
The author of the Father Dowling series (The Book of Kills, etc.) has fashioned a sleuthing duo—brothers Roger and Philip Knight—who mix the academic, the philosophical and the religious. And what better purview for the author's...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-312-30899-5
Father Dowling's 22nd absorbing outing (after 2002's Prodigal Father) from the prolific McInerny is guaranteed to mystify. Ill with prostate cancer, Fulvio Bernardo, patriarch of a wealthy and influential Chicago-area family, despairs of his
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-312-30901-5
In McInerny's seventh pleasant page-turner set at the University of Notre Dame (after 2002's Celt and Pepper
) featuring professor Roger Knight and his PI brother Philip, Fred Neville, assistant sports information director, yearns for a...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-312-33690-5
The engaging 24th Father Dowling mystery (after 2004's Requiem for a Realtor
) explores the moral ambiguities of the choices people make in the wake of a young woman's unwanted pregnancy. McInerny uses a full palette of nothing but grays as...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-312-33688-2
In McInerney's ninth Notre Dame mystery (after 2004's Green Thumb
), professor Roger Knight and his detective brother, Philip, seek the missing diaries of Fr. John Zahn, an almost forgotten 19th-century theologian, which purport to shed...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-35144-1
In McInerny's tedious 25th Father Dowling mystery (after 2005's Blood Ties
), the detective-cum-priest is stunned when his old classmate, Gregory Barrett, now a popular NPR personality, is accused of a decades-old sexual dalliance with a...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (233p) ISBN 978-0-312-35143-4
In McInerny's rambling 10th mystery set at the University of Notre Dame (after 2004's Green Thumb
), the football coach, an English professor, the provost and the dean of arts and letters all receive alarming bomb threat letters. The...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur $24.95 (279p) ISBN 978-0-312-36455-7
The entertaining 26th Father Dowling mystery (after 2006’s The Prudence of the Flesh
) finds the lovable gang at St. Hilary’s poking into a decade-old crime. When Wallace Flanagan disappeared after receiving a large gift of money from...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (227p) ISBN 978-0-312-36457-1
Notre Dame faces its football rival Georgia Tech, and the campus is packed, but there's plenty of action off the field in McInerny's rollicking 11th collegiate mystery (after 2006's The Letter Killeth
). Roger Knight, a professor of...
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In McInerny's 20th Father Dowling mystery in 24 years, the pensive, perceptive priest figures out a not very difficult case involving three seemingly separate murders that affect his St. Hilary's Catholic Church parish in Fox River, Ill....
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-36458-8
Fans might like to forget Notre Dame's terrible 2007 football season, but it's perfect fodder for McInerny's 12th mystery to feature Knight brothers Roger, a professor, and Philip, a PI (after 2007's Irish Alibi
). As the 2007...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author . Five Star $25.95 (343p) ISBN 978-1-59414-679-4
Fans of McInerny's Father Dowling novels (Ash Wednesday
, etc.) will welcome this collection of 15 short stories featuring the compassionate priest of St. Hilary's church in Fox River, Ill., and such beloved supporting characters as his...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (279p) ISBN 978-0-312-58264-7
Isolated by demographic changes, St. Hilary's of Fox River, Ill., struggles for its very survival in McInerny's timely 28th novel to feature Father Dowling (after 2008's Ash Wednesday
). When the archdiocese decides to close half a...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (280p) ISBN 978-0-312-58265-4
Knight brothers Roger, a professor, and Philip, a semiretired PI, look into a decades-old disappearance in McInerney's absorbing 13th Notre Dame mystery (after 2008's The Green Revolution
). With the economy in a downward slide, financial...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author Ignatius Press $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89870-681-9
There's plenty of incident in McInerny's new thriller. The mother of a priest's illegitimate child is murdered. The controversial author of a book about the decline of the church in America is named U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican and battles a wily...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author Atheneum Books $18.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-689-12081-7
Juxtaposing comedy and suspense, McInerny constructs a mystery equal in excellence to his Fr. Dowling series and other novels. In a small Minnesota town, Roy Hunt and Stella Arthur shove her rich husband George through a hole in an icebound lake....
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author Atheneum Books $17.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-689-12037-4
The third adventure of Andrew Broom displays the inventiveness and wit that draws fans to McInerny's Father Dowling mysteries and his many other novels. In Broom's rural Indiana town, a stranger known to the reader as Gunther kills the owner of a...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author Anthem $19.95 (261p) ISBN 978-0-689-12131-9
A bizarre identity switch kicks off this intriguing psychological drama by the author of the Father Dowling mystery series. Raunchy, alcoholic ``retired'' poet Howard Webster is holed up in his Wisconsin farmhouse re-wooing his muse when a vagrant...
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Ralph M. McInerny, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-20311-5
The creator of Father Dowling returns to the small town of Wyler, Ind., for the sixth in his series of pleasantly low-key tales (Body and Soil, Savings and Loam, etc.) featuring lawyer Andrew Broom. When beautiful blonde college student Helga...
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