Angels of September

Andrew M. Greeley “Angels of September” Warner Books, Inc, 1986, 452 pp.

The Irish, Dr. Johnson said, are a very fair race they never speak well of one another. Greeley keeps up the tradition in this book.  Ann Reilly is an art gallery owner.  After two less than successful marriages, she reconnects with Mike Casey, a top Chicago cop and former schoolmate. But Anne's lifelong Catholicism riddles her with guilt.  An exhibit of Breughel-like paintings by a dead mad priest begins to cause threats to Anne's life and even threats to her sanity.  Casey's cousin, the urbane Cathedral rector, Father "Blackie" Ryan, joins with his psychiatrist sister to fight Anne's demons. Greeley bashes Popes, bishops, cops, pols, and professors, most of them Irish.

I read this book some time ago and recommend it, along with all of Greely’s other books.  I find this kind of book a welcome respite when reading something more technical. 

Addenda:

Author, Andrew Greeley, age 85, died 5/30/2013.

From Wikipedia:  Andrew M. Greeley (born 1928) was an American Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist, and popular novelist. Greeley was a Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona and the University of Chicago and a Research Associate with the National Opinion Research Center