Irish Cream

Andrew M. Greeley “Irish Cream” Tom Doherty Associates, 2005, 315 pp.

Now a fourth Greeley novel. 

More 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 husband and accomplice, Dermot Michael Coyne.  

 In Irish Cream, Damian "Day" O'Sullivan is a troubled young man who blames himself for a tragic vehicular homicide he may not have committed.  Interestingly, his entire family (The Irish Cream) seems to be conspiring to pin the crime on him.  Enter Nuala and Dermot to establish who really ran over Rodney Keefe in the parking lot (three times). 

A parallel story is followed in the book involving a nineteenth-century parish priest.  Nuala came across the diary of this now-long-dead priest and, as always, she is determined to solve the mystery the diary presents.  Again and excellent history of the Connemara area as it was in the years following the famine.