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  • Bibliography:
    72 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1970
  • Latest Book:
    October 2009
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Full Series List in Order

A Father Blackie Ryan Mystery

1 - Happy Are the Meek (Sep-1985)
2 - Happy Are the Clean of Heart (Jul-1986)
3 - Happy Are Those Who Thirst for Justice (Sep-1987)
4 - Happy Are the Merciful (Mar-1992)
5 - Happy Are the Peacemakers (Apr-1993)
6 - Happy Are the Poor in Spirit (Dec-1994)
7 - Happy Are Those Who Mourn (Dec-1995)
8 - Happy Are the Oppressed (Aug-1996)
9 - The Bishop at Sea (Nov-1997)
10 - The Bishop and the Three Kings (Nov-1998)
11 - The Bishop and the Missing L Train (Jul-2000)
12 - The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain (Jul-2001)
13 - The Bishop in the West Wing (Jul-2002)
14 - The Bishop Goes to The University (Oct-2003)
15 - The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood (Nov-2005)
16 - The Bishop at the Lake (Sep-2007)
17 - The Archbishop in Andalusia (Nov-2008)

A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel

1 - Irish Gold (1994)
2 - Irish Lace (Nov-1996)
3 - Irish Whiskey (Mar-1998)
4 - Irish Mist (Mar-1999)
5 - Irish Eyes (Feb-2000)
6 - Irish Love (Jan-2001)
7 - Irish Stew! (Mar-2002)
8 - Irish Cream (Feb-2005)
9 - Irish Crystal (Feb-2006)
10 - Irish Linen (Feb-2007)
11 - Irish Tiger (Feb-2008)
12 - Irish Tweed (Feb-2009)
Golden Years (Nov-2004)

O'Malley Family

1 - A Midwinter's Tale (Oct-1998)
2 - Younger Than Springtime (Aug-1999)
3 - A Christmas Wedding (Oct-2000)
4 - September Song (Oct-2001)
5 - Second Spring (Apr-2003)

The Passover Trilogy

1 - Thy Brother's Wife (Mar-1982)
2 - Ascent into Hell (Jun-1983)
3 - Lord of the Dance (Mar-1984)

Book List in Order: 72 titles






  • The Cardinal Sins ignited a worldwide sensation when it first appeared nearly thirty years ago. Selling more than three million copies, it launched Andrew M. Greeley's career as one of America's most popular storytellers. Back in print at last, this ...



  • The direction of Paul and Sean Cronin's lives was shaped the day their father, a self-made multimillionaire, decided that one of his boys would grow up to be a cardinal while the other would become president of the United States.For his elder son, Pa...





  • Chronicles the lives of the Farrells -- matriarch Brigid, sons, John, a priest, and Roger, a professor, and his wife Irene--and their regeneration sparked by another Farrell, the lively young teenager Noele Marie. ...



  • A Quest for the Holy GrailIn this novel of legendary Ireland, Andrew Greeley takes you back into a long-ago time of mists and magic, faith and love. Here you will meet Cormac MacDermot, the young king destined to lead Ireland out of paganism to Chris...









  • ONE DAY AT THE BEACH... I was given the kingdom, the power, and the glory, and let me tell you, it wasn't any fun. I was trying out a new computer game called "Duke and Duchess" when lightning struck my satellite dish. Maybe that's what caused ...





  • For the men and women of the battered pilgrim vessel IONA, members of the Holy Order of St. Brigid and St. Brendan, it was the last chance.Even with survival at stake, they must obey their holy order's rule: they cannot invade, they must be invited t...



  • THE HOT-BLOODED HEIRESS has a fantasy. Somebody shoots her rich, domineering grandmother, Violet Enright, aboard her luxury yacht, locks the cabin door, and disappears into the safe, dark waters of Lake Michigan. But when young Fionna Downs' flight o...



  • From Andrew M. Greeley, author of eight consecutive national bestsellers with more than 11 million copies in print, comes a riveting novel of romance and suspense in which a Chicago lawyer follows a deadly trail to find the mysterious woman he loves....



  • Someone to watch over me? Sean Seamus Desmond, newly-announced Nobel Prize winner, relishes the unknowns of science, but a real-life mystery of love and passion. . . in the form of a beautiful woman who says she's his guardian angel? Impossible. Yet ...



  • Beautiful Assistant D.A. Marie Lyons and attorney Conor Clarke fall passionately in love, but Clarke's crimetainted past threatens Lyon's career and their relationships unless he can prove he had been framed and win her back...








  • Top television investigative reporter Neal Connor finds romance and danger when he returns to his hometown of Chicago on assignment and reunites with his childhood sweetheart, the recent widow of his best friend...



  • You're in for an unforgettable experience when America's master storyteller turns his enormous narrative gifts to the passionate, haunting subject of the American woman, searching for--and often finding--love and faith... in Andrew M. Greeley's All A...



  • Father Laurence O'Toole McAuliffe, the pastor of Saint Finian's parish in Forest Springs, is weary and worn out, his priesthood and faith in tatters. Once literally a bomb-throwing radical and then a Vatican Council liberal, Lar McAuliffe has grown o...



  • The Search for Maggie Ward is a poignant tale of love, loss, and faith set in the aftermath of World War I, from acclaimed New York Times bestsellling author and theologian Andrew M. Greeley.Young Navy flier Jerry Keenan is supposed to be on his way ...






  • The prosecutor who sent Clare Turner to jail for murdering her adoptive parents begins to doubt the conviction and confesses to Bishop "Blackie" Ryan, who must find the real killer before he becomes the next victim. Original....



  • Playing the role of "devil's advocate" for the Church, Father Laurence McAuliffe investigates allegations that John Cardinal McGlynn--a candidate for canonization--led a less-than-saintly life. Reprint....







  • Kathleen Leary Donahue lives the perfect life in Chicago with her husband, Brian, a senatorial candidate, her three beautiful children, and her own successful career, until a phone call from her husband's male lover brings her face to face with an un...



  • Rich, beautiful, seductive ... and suspected of murder. Nora MacDonaugh had bad luck with husbands: they both died under mysterious circumstances. Her latest, an Irish millionaire, had changed his will in her favor a week before the bomb went off in ...



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    Bestselling novelist Andrew M. Greeley outdoes his previous triumphs with Irish Gold, a contemporary, fresh and exciting novel of suspense and love. Nuala Anne McGrail, a student at Dublin's Trinity College, is beautiful the way a Celtic goddess is b...



  • Every family has a few, skeletons in their closet. The Cain family has a ghost, and it's trying to murder tie rich and famous Bart Cain. After three near-fatal attempts on his life--and three eerie phone calls from a woman who's supposed to be dead--...



  • Andrew M. Greeley's Angel Light is based on the Book of Tobis in the Old Testament, one of the sweetest love stories ever told. "I do not want ten million dollars. I do not want to visit Ireland. I do not want to end a Tobin family feud. And, above ...



  • Investigating a suspicious series of paranormal occurrences that others have attributed to the ghost of the late Monsignor Charles McInerny, Bishop Blackie Ryan uncovers a conspiracy involving millions in missing church funds. Original....



  • The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church have gathered in Rome for the papal election following the death of the incumbent pope. Torn by internal conflict and with many of its members alienated, the Church faces one of the most serious crises in it...



  • One hundred years after the wife of tycoon Peter Paul Cardin is brutally murdered, Mrs. Peter Paul Cardin V realizes that she is destined to share the same fate unless Bishop Blackie Ryan is able to solve a mystery from the past. Original....



  • The beautiful and fey -- as they say in the old country -- Nuala Anne McGrail uses her psychic abilities to help solve mysteries. But even she will admit with a smile that she couldn't do it without Dermont Michael Coyne, her devoted admirer and ...



  • "In a narrative that ranges from the 1940's to the 1970's. Greeley tells the story of three friends who spend a memorable and life-altering summer at a lake near Chicago. Both Leo Kelly and Patrick "Packy" Keenan are falling in lo...






  • It's beginning to look a lot like an American Christmas: unpleasant relatives, miserable travel, a slobbering dog-and one "harmless American of Irish origins," Jack Flanigan, who is reluctantly falling in love with a young Russian woman studying at H...



  • Bishop Blackie Ryan is feeling more than a bit out of place on the USS Langley, an aircraft carrier on duty hundreds of miles from the nearest dry land. But the ship is in trouble--several of her crew have disappeared without explanation, and one dea...



  • Nuala Anne McGrail is almost more than any poor mortal man can handle without losing his sanity: her beauty causes shortness of breath in men of all ages, she's strong, she's smart, she's witty, she sings like an angel, and--to top it all off--she's ...



  • Millionaire media mogul Raymond Neenan can't believe his ears--or his eyes. The scat next to him, empty for the whole flight, now barely contains a huge man who looks a lot like Chicago Bulls superstar Michael Jordan. In fact, the "man" is the Arc...



  • Stationed in Bamberg, Germany, in the chaotic aftermath of WWII, pint--sized Charles "Chucky" Cronin O'Malley can't seem to keep himself out of harm's way. Whether it be with black marketeers, border patrols, or even his commanding officer, Chucky al...



  • It's a chilly October morning in Cologne, Germany, when a major relic of the Catholic Church, the remains of the Three Kings, is stolen from the cathedral! When the theft becomes public it'll be a cold day in Cologne, for the resultant furor could ha...



  • Dermot Michael Coyne isn't sure what he's gotten himself into. Nuala Anne McGrail, that beautiful and vivacious "Celtic witch" has finally agreed to marry him. But they've barely tied the knot when Nuala's psychic "spells" begin again. Visions of a b...



  • Love. Of all the virtues that have been passed on to us through the ages, from the great poets to the saints and scholars, throughout history and literature, love is the one virtue that we as a society cannot live without.

    The ability to love ...



  • The bestselling author of A Midwinter's Tale returns with a heartfelt sequelFather Andrew M. Greeley returns to the saga of the O'Malley family with his signature blend of humor, classic American values and heart-rending storytelling.Charles "Chucky"...



  • Nuala Anne McGrail, that beautiful Irish spitfire, now lives in Chicago with her husband, Dermot, and their new baby, Nelliecoyne. As Nuala fans may suspect, Nelliecoyne is no ordinary baby: she is fey like her mother, and can see into the past as we...






  • ANDREW GREELEY introduces a monk of the Middle Ages who investigates corruption in the Vatican to crack "The Case of the Murdered Pope"... Sir John Fielding, a blind eighteenth-century magistrate, confronts crime at a stuffy dinner party in BRUCE ALE...



  • Millions of Blackie Ryan fans will be thrilled with his return in this exciting novel of mystery and suspense. The Vatican has just assigned auxiliary Bishop Gus Quill to the Archdiocese of Chicago over the violent protests of Blackie's boss Sean Car...



  • "Happy families are all alike," said Tolstoy, and the O'Malley's are one of the happiest, if slightly crazy, families in current fiction. A Christmas Wedding continues the saga of Chucky, the youngest son who wants to live the quiet life of an accoun...



  • Continuing the enchanting chronicles of the fabulous Nuala Anne McGrail and her spear-carrying husband Dermot, bestselling author Andrew M. Greeley takes them once again to Ireland for another thrill-packed adventure.Back on the Emerald Isle, Nuala a...



  • Not just an ordinary priest but a priest/television superstar, idolized by the people of France, loved by everyone except, of course, the French hierarchy, the Church, the state, and the Paris television community. The Archbishop of Paris, famili...



  • The enthralling third novel in the chronicle of the O'Malleys in the twentieth century.The fourth of the O'Malley chronicles is narrated by the ravishing Rosemarie, dedicated wife of our intrepid and trouble-prone hero, Chucky Cronin O'Malley. Destin...



  • Nuala Anne McGrail, the enthralling heroine of Irish Love, returns, along with her devoted husband Dermot, to lend her second sight and irrepressible personality to another savory concoction made up of equal parts of love, humor, and intrigue. You...



  • "See to it, Blackwood," says the Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, and Blackie Ryan, the Cardinal's auxiliary bishop, doesn't exactly jump (he never jumps), rather he moseys down to Washington, D.C., where one of his friends, Jack Patrick McGurn, calle...



  • Father Andrew M. Greeley, one of America's best-loved and most widely read novelists, has delighted readers with his ongoing chronicles of the crazy O'Malleys, a rambunctious but resourceful Irish-American family caught up in the sweep of modern Amer...



  • The irrepressible Bishop Blackwood Ryan returns as his Cardinal dispatches Blackie to The University on the South Side of Chicago to investigate a baffling locked-room mystery. Someone has assassinated a Russian Orthodox monk in his office at the Div...



  • Mythology and magic come alive in this collection of Irish fantasy stories by some of today's finest authors.Ireland is a nation that holds fast to its history and heritage, and nowhere is that more true than in its folktales and legends. From the gr...



  • Not since his runaway bestseller, The Cardinal Sins, has Father Andrew M. Greeley written such a searing and topical novel about the state of the Catholic Church.The Priestly Sins tells the story of Father Herman Hoffman, a gifted and innocent young ...



  • Father Andrew M. Greeley, one of America's most popular and trusted storytellers, has long charmed readers with his continuing chronicles of the crazy O'Malleys, an irrepressible and resilient Irish-American family caught up in the rush of modern Ame...



  • 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 a...



  • "Blackwood, there's trouble in the old neighborhood! Murder in the sanctuary of the Church!"The church in question is St. Lucy's, a humble edifice at the heart of a venerable Chicago neighborhood now suffering the throes of gentrification. St. Lucy's...



  • This latest tale of Nuala Anne McGrail, the engagingly fey heroine of such irresistible books as Irish Cream and Irish Lace, begins with a foreboding dream of some terrible impending evil. Dermot Michael Coyne, Nuala's adoring husband and spear-carri...



  • One of America's most beloved storytellers, Father Andrew Greeley returns with an explosive novel about the corrosive political culture tearing apart America--and one man's family. Tommy Moran, an Irish Catholic kid from the West Side of Chicago, fig...



  • The perils of wartime add special urgency to the latest mysteries being investigated by Nuala Anne McGrail. More than a little fey, Nuala has a well-deserved reputation for getting to the bottom of even the most tangled intrigues, even when they may ...



  • Matters of succession lead to attempted murder in the latest of Greeley's popular mysteries. Archbishop Malachi Nolan has designs on the Diocese of Chicago despite the fact the Most Reverend Blackwood Ryan, himself recently appointed an archbishop...



  • Wife, mother, lover, celebrated singer, and problem solver Nuala Anne McGrail has a tender side that she often shows to her devoted friends and family. But when those under her protection are in danger, she becomes a veritable Irish Tiger, akin to th...



  • The Archbishop in Andalusia opens an exciting new chapter in the illustrious career of one of Andrew Greeley's most beloved characters. Taking leave of his usual Chicago haunts, Archbishop John Blackwood Ryan travels to the south of Spain in this lat...



  • Countless readers have been delighted by Father Andrew M. Greeley's bestselling tales of Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish-speaking woman blessed with the gift of second sight, and her husband and accomplice, Dermot Michael Coyne. In Irish Tweed, N...



  • Petey Pat Kane and Mariana Pia Pelligrino have been in love with each other their whole lives. But on a night that is supposed to be one of the best of their lives, Peter makes a choice that forces him to leave Chicago -- and Mariana -- behind. Guilt...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Andrew M. Greeley has published 72 books.

Andrew M. Greeley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Home for Christmas, was published in October 2009.

The first book by Andrew M. Greeley, The Friendship Game, was published in June 1970.

Yes. Andrew M. Greeley has 4 series.