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1) Irish tweed
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Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish-speaking woman blessed with the gift of second sight, and her daughter have taken up karate to fight off schoolyard bullies who are harassing the family, while their incredibly shy nanny, Julie, is courted by a new fellow. Meanwhile Nuala Anne's husband, Dermot, pores over a memoir of a famine refugee whose family died of a mysterious fever, looking for clues to the cause of the illness.
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Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 9
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"There's evil people around, Dermot love...I knew about them even before me dream. Really evil people. Won't we have to fight them!"
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-carrier, knows better than to ignore his wife's second sight, but from whence...
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On a visit to the grave of grandparents Nuala Anne McGrail, who has psychic vision, notices the coffin in a nearby grave is empty. The grave is that of Jimmy Sullivan, a 1920s Chicago gangster. As Nuala's fiance, Dermot Coyne proceeds to investigate, he runs into lethal opposition. By the author of Irish Lace.
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A romantic triangle featuring an ex-Marine and a disillusioned priest, both in love with the same woman who is unhappily married. The romance is played out against the background of a mysterious car accident in which the three were involved. The setting is Chicago, the time the 1970s.
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Father Blackie Ryan mysteries volume 16
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"Bishop Blackie Ryan is summoned to St. Lucy's Church in Chicago. The old neighborhood is changing, and some people don't like it at all. Now three bodies have been left in the sanctuary. Is it a warning to those who would "gentrify" the neighborhood, or to St. Lucy's monsignor who has made his share of enemies? Blackie fears that this could be just the beginnning, and enlists the help of his long-dead father, as well as Declan O'Donnell, a savvy...
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2007-0311 "The perils of wartime add special urgency to the latest mysteries being investigated by Nuala Anne McGrail and her adoring husband, Dermot Coyne. 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 be taking place on the other side of the world." "Desmond Doolin, an idealistic young man from their West Side Chicago neighborhood, has gone missing in...
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Passover trilogy volume 1
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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, Paul, the father had even chosen a wife-the beautiful Nora, who had come to the Cronin home as an orphan child years before. Obediently, and with a genuine vocation, the younger son, Sean, went into the...
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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 Dermot Michael Coyne, her devoted admirer and self-proclaimed "spear carrier."
Now both living in Chicago, their unique courtship is once again interrupted by one of Nuala's "spells." On a quiet street on the South Shore, she is overwhelmed by the screaming...
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Father Blackie Ryan mysteries volume 15
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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 Divinity School-despite the fact that the door of his office was bolted shut from the inside and no killer was found within.
Who shot Brother Semyon Ivanivich Popov? There were only four professors in the...
19) Irish stew!
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Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 7
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And what a stew it is. Here are some of the ingredients: Our heroine, Nuala Anne McGrail, in her guise as international singing star, accompanied by her spear-carrying husband, Dermot Coyne, is off to a major music festival in Milan, where they meet Seamus Costelloe, a Chicago Irish macher, and his family. Seamus is no better than he should be, and in fact the suspicion is that he's very bad indeed, but softhearted Nuala sees the sign of death on...
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Father Blackie Ryan mysteries volume 7
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Responding to a call for an exorcist, Bishop Blackie Ryan learns about rich and famous Bart Cain's three narrow escapes from attempted murders and the eerie phone calls that Cain received from a woman who is believed to be dead.
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