Review # 81
Nuala Anne McGrail and her husband, Dermot Michael Coyne return!
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. (Nuala Anne delivers a black belt kick to the unlikable new school principal's stomach in a schoolyard brawl involving all four of her children.)
Solving the bullying problem at St. Joe's isn't the only challenge facing Nuala and her adoring husband, Dermot. They must also figure out who beat and threw Finnbar Burke, (the "nice fella" with whom their shy, golden-haired nanny has fallen in love) into the Chicago River.
Nuala Anne and Dermot, with the able assistance of Cardinal ‘Blackie’ Ryan and a host of Wabash Avenue Irregulars, quietly tackle the case.
Interspersed with the present-day action is the poignant story of an Irish girl who came to America after all her immediate family died in the famine of 1875. One of the first female physicians in the Chicago area, she helps solve a perplexing medical mystery during a smallpox epidemic. (Remember…all of the “Irish” stories by Greeley contain 2 different stories being reported at the same time.)
Greeley has done it again! Few can resist the charm of these colorful, warm characters and the author's sympathetic view of the Irish of Chicago
NOTE:
Andrew Greeley suffered a fractured skull and left orbital bone near his eye in a fall on November 7, 2008, when his clothing got caught on the door of a taxi as it pulled away, and was hospitalized in critical condition. His most recent health update (November 7, 2009, on the anniversary of his accident) listed on his webpage indicates he is recovering at home in the care of his family.
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