Irish Americans, Women detectives, Irish Americans in fiction, Fiction
Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish-speaking woman blessed with the gift of second sight, and her husband and accomplice, Dermot Michael Coyne, investigate the brutal beating of Finnbar Burke, the "nice fella" with whom their shy, golden-haired nanny has fallen in love, who is found floating in the Chicago River. Set in late nineteenth-century Chicago.
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Classical in form, grave, unpretentious and earnest.
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Andrew M. Greeley
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 254
- Publisher
- Forge, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781410414816
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