Irish tweed

By Andrew M. Greeley

Subjects: Irish americans, fiction, Nuala Anne McGrail (Fictitious character), Irish Americans in fiction, Large type books, Women detectives, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Fiction, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Irish Americans, Mcgrail, nuala anne (fictitious character), fiction, Women detectives in fiction

Description: Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish-speaking woman blessed with the gift of second sight, and her husband and accomplice, Dermot Michael Coyne, investigate the brutal beating of Finnbar Burke, the "nice fella" with whom their shy, golden-haired nanny has fallen in love, who is found floating in the Chicago River. Set in late nineteenth-century Chicago.