Blackie Ryan · Book 1
Happy Are the Meek
- Published
- 1 January 1985
- Pages
- 264
- ISBN-13
- 9780708829684
- Type
- novel
About this book
Happy Are the Meek is the novel that launches Andrew M. Greeley's Blackie Ryan series, first published in 1985, running 264 pages. It precedes Happy Are the Clean of Heart in the reading order.
Its place in Blackie Ryan
Happy Are the Meek is book 1 in the Blackie Ryan series. It is followed by Happy Are the Clean of Heart. See the full Blackie Ryan reading order.
Father John "Blackie" Ryan is a deceptively mild, owlishly bespectacled Chicago priest -- rector of a cathedral parish, later an auxiliary bishop and archbishop -- who solves murders among Chicago's Irish Catholic elite with a quiet, observational cunning that his unassuming manner tends to hide from suspects and colleagues alike. Andrew Greeley wrote eighteen Blackie Ryan novels over more than two decades, moving the character up through the Church hierarchy as the series progressed -- the earlier books use the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780708829684