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Pig trilogy volume 1
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An American in Ireland encounters mystery, romance—and an extremely disruptive pig: “Very funny . . . a payoff that is as unexpected as it is satisfying” (Publishers Weekly).
Possibly the most obstreperous character in literature since Buck Mulligan in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Mr. Caldwell’s pig distracts everyone from his or her chosen mission. Aaron McCloud has come to Ireland
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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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Pig trilogy volume 3
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“A triumphant conclusion” to the spirited Irish trilogy from the author of The Pig Did It and The Pig Comes to Dinner (Richmond Times-Dispatch).
Kitty McCloud, the trilogy’s leading lady, would let these words stand, even were she a reviser of aphorisms rather than a “fixer” of great literary works by the likes of Bronte, Hardy, and Eliot no less, by writing “improved”...
Kitty McCloud, the trilogy’s leading lady, would let these words stand, even were she a reviser of aphorisms rather than a “fixer” of great literary works by the likes of Bronte, Hardy, and Eliot no less, by writing “improved”...
5) Irish eyes
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Callahan Garrity mysteries volume 8
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Callahan Garrity is the owner of House Mouse, a cleaning service that tidies up after Atlanta's elite. She's also a former cop and a part-time sleuth. She and her coterie of devoted helpers can ransack a house for clues faster than it takes a fingerprint to set. When Callahan Garrity gets caught in a liquor store holdup on the way home from a St. Paddy's Day party, one of her best friends is shot. Callahan and her House Mouse cleaning crew dive into...
6) 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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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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"One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched--asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who...
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Francesca Cahill novels volume 8
Thorndike Press large print romance
A Francesca Cahill novel volume 08
Deadly volume 8
Thorndike Press large print romance
A Francesca Cahill novel volume 08
Deadly volume 8
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Called to the home of her fiancé's former mistress late one night, Francesca finds her curiosity piqued. But upon arrival, she is shocked to find Daisy Jones's bloodied body...;and even more devastated when the evidence points to one suspect-;her fiancé, Calder.
Francesca cannot-;will not-;believe that Calder is capable of such an act. Still, she is unable to shake her instinctive sense that Calder is lying about something. The police are far less...
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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...
11) Deadly illusions
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Irrepressible heiress and intrepid sleuth Francesca Cahill moves from her own glittering world of Fifth Avenue to the teeming underbelly of society, a place of pride, passions...;and sometimes deadly perversion.
Despite the misgivings of her fiancé, Calder Hart, Francesca cannot turn away from a threat that is terrorizing the tenement neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. A madman has attacked three women, but while the first two victims survived, the...
12) Everybody dies
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 14
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PI Matt Scudder sets out to learn who is trying to kill Mick Ballou, a gangster who is his friend and who has become the object of several assassination attempts. A dangerous assignment as Scudder himself becomes a target.
13) Irish crystal
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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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"Salem, Massachusetts, B&B owner Charlene Morris will need the luck of the Irish--and the help of a ghost--to unveil a hooded killer . . . Charlene has hired a van to ferry her B&B guests to an all-you-can-eat corned beef and cabbage dinner hosted by Salem's Irish community at the Ancient Order of Hibernians club--but she should have booked a hearse. It's never a good sign when the family black sheep drunkenly crashes a party by punching the guy dressed...
15) Irish love
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Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 6
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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 and Dermot soon get the feeling that someone is out to get them. They find themselves dodging multiple explosions, and someone starts shooting at Nuala while she is water-skiing in the cold Atlantic....
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Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 5
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In their investigation of strange vibrations from a place on Lake Michigan where a shipload of Irish Americans lost their lives a hundred years ago, Nuala Anne McGrail, her infant daughter Nelliecoyne, and her husband make some enemies, discover a murder, and find a buried treasure.
18) 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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In his brilliant second novel, Dermot McEvoy sweeps his readers into the midst of one of the most heated political races in New York City history, where an unlikely player decides to make her presence known. First it hits the papers that the Virgin Mary has appeared to Jackie Swift, an affable G.O.P. congressman with a couple of nasty habits. She then appears in a dream to Wolfe Tone O'Rourke, a liberal political consultant who is still haunted by...
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"On 9/11 Lieutenant Brian Murphy, NYPD, ran back into the collapsing North Tower. He was off duty and had not returned home the night before. Three years later his father, retired Detective-Sergeant Jimmy Murphy, sets out to find the truth about his son, his family, and his country"--
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