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In Irish Mist (Forge), Andrew M. Greeley, AM’61, PhD’62,
fuses suspense, history, romance, and Irish wit. Greeley, a Catholic
priest, is also a research associate at the University of Chicago’s
National Opinion Research Center and a prolific writer on religion
and of mystery-romance fiction. The fourth in a series of best-selling
novels about sleuths Dermot Coyne and Nuala Anne McGrail, Mist unfolds
as an adventure that leads the newlywed couple through present-day
Dublin. The duo searches for the identities of those who killed
Kevin O’Higgins, heir apparent to Irish civil-war revolutionary
leader Michael Collins. Also cast into the story is the element
of the supernatural: Nuala is a “Celtic witch,” gifted
with psychic visions that help her and her husband solve the baffling
puzzle of the assassination. Greeley interweaves a romantic subplot
that reveals the gains and pains of married life as the two work
diligently. They combine legwork and intuition to decipher Nuala’s
enigmatic visions—a burning castle, the captain of the Black
and Tan police force, a wild Chicago woman, and bloodshed—and
unveil the truth about a murky and violent past hidden beneath Ireland’s
radiant greenery. —E.C.
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