Blackie Ryan · Book 4
Happy Are the Merciful
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780515107265
- Type
- novel
About this book
Happy Are the Merciful is the 4th entry in Andrew M. Greeley's Blackie Ryan series, published in 1992 at 320 pages. In the reading order it comes after Happy Are Those Who Thirst for Justice and before Happy Are the Peace Makers.
Its place in Blackie Ryan
Happy Are the Merciful is book 4 in the Blackie Ryan series. It follows Happy Are Those Who Thirst for Justice. It is followed by Happy Are the Peace Makers. 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 9780515107265