Blackie Ryan · Book 7

Happy Are Those Who Mourn

by Andrew M. Greeley

Published
1 January 1995
Pages
282
ISBN-13
9781574900385
Type
novel

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About this book

Happy Are Those Who Mourn is the 7th book in the Blackie Ryan series, written by Andrew M. Greeley, published in 1995 at 282 pages. In the reading order it comes after Happy Are the Poor in Spirit and before Happy Are the Oppressed.

Its place in Blackie Ryan

Happy Are Those Who Mourn is book 7 in the Blackie Ryan series. It follows Happy Are the Poor in Spirit. It is followed by Happy Are the Oppressed. 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…

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