Andrew M. Greeley

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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 Friendship Game

  • Come Blow Your Mind with Me

  • The Cardinal Sins

    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 ...

  • Thy Brother's Wife

    The Passover Trilogy - 1

    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...

  • Ascent into Hell

    The Passover Trilogy - 2

  • Death in April

  • Lord of the Dance

    The Passover Trilogy - 3

    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. ...

  • The Magic Cup

    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...

  • Virgin and Martyr



  • Happy Are the Meek

    A Father Blackie Ryan Mystery - 1

  • Angels of September

  • God Game

    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 ...

  • Happy Are the Clean of Heart

    A Father Blackie Ryan Mystery - 2

  • Patience of a Saint

  • Final Planet

    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...

  • Happy Are Those Who Thirst for Justice

    A Father Blackie Ryan Mystery - 3

    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...

  • Rite of Spring

    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....

  • Angel Fire

    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 ...

  • Love Song

    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...



  • Myths of Religion

  • Saint Valentines Night

    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...

  • All About Women

    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...

  • Cardinal Virtues

    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

    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 ...

  • Sacred Visions

  • The Seven Deadly Sins

  • Happy Are the Merciful

    A Father Blackie Ryan Mystery - 4

    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....

  • An Occasion of Sin

    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....

  • Wages of Sin



  • Fall from Grace

    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...

  • Happy Are the Peacemakers

    A Father Blackie Ryan Mystery - 5

    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 ...

  • Irish Gold

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    A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel - 1

    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...

  • Happy Are the Poor in Spirit

    A Father Blackie Ryan Mystery - 6

    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--...

  • Angel Light

    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 ...

  • Happy Are Those Who Mourn

    A Father Blackie Ryan Mystery - 7

    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....

  • White Smoke

    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...

  • Happy Are the Oppressed

    A Father Blackie Ryan Mystery - 8

    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....

  • Irish Lace

    A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel - 2

    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 ...

  • Summer at the Lake

    "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...



  • Star Bright!

    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...

  • The Bishop at Sea

    A Father Blackie Ryan Mystery - 9

    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...

  • Irish Whiskey

    A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel - 3

    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 ...

  • Contract with an Angel

    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...

  • A Midwinter's Tale

    O'Malley Family - 1

    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...

  • The Bishop and the Three Kings

    A Father Blackie Ryan Mystery - 10

    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...

  • Irish Mist

    A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel - 4

    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...

  • Book of Love

    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 ...

  • Younger Than Springtime

    O'Malley Family - 2

    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"...

  • Irish Eyes

    A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel - 5

    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...



  • The Case of the Murdered Pope

    in Crime Through Time III

    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...

  • The Bishop and the Missing L Train

    A Father Blackie Ryan Mystery - 11

    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...

  • A Christmas Wedding

    O'Malley Family - 3

    "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...

  • Irish Love

    A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel - 6

    The New York Times"bestselling author takes fabulous Nuala Anne McGrail and her husband 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 ...

  • The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain

    A Father Blackie Ryan Mystery - 12

    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...

  • September Song

    O'Malley Family - 4

    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...

  • Irish Stew!

    A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel - 7

    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...

  • The Bishop in the West Wing

    A Father Blackie Ryan Mystery - 13

    "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...

  • Second Spring

    O'Malley Family - 5

    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 Bishop Goes to The University

    A Father Blackie Ryan Mystery - 14

    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...

  • Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy

    Irish magic comes alive in this collection -- “a sheer delight of grand storytelling” -- featuring Ray Bradbury, Tanith Lee, Charles de Lint and others (Publishers Weekly).From the great Celtic myths featuring the bard Taliesin, the terrible Mor...

  • The Priestly Sins

    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 ...

  • Golden Years

    A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel

    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...

  • Irish Cream

    A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel - 8

    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...

  • The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood

    A Father Blackie Ryan Mystery - 15

    "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...

  • Irish Crystal

    A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel - 9

    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...

  • The Senator and the Priest

    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...

  • Irish Linen

    A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel - 10

    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 ...

  • The Bishop at the Lake

    A Father Blackie Ryan Mystery - 16

    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...

  • Irish Tiger

    A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel - 11

    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

    A Father Blackie Ryan Mystery - 17

    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...

  • Irish Tweed

    A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel - 12

    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...

  • Home for Christmas

    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.
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