Andrew M Greeley Books in Order

A warm, direct book of advice for young women, covering faith, sex, marriage, vocation, work, and the search for a purposeful life.

Greeley reads the Gospels as a message of joy, love, and radical newness, stripping away harsher habits that can obscure Jesus.

Young king Cormac MacDermot sets out across legendary Ireland in search of a holy cup that can confirm his claim. Magic, danger, and Brigid travel with him.

Greeley's sharp account of the dramatic 1978 papal elections blends reportage, diarylike observation, and Vatican power politics.

An early thriller that mixes violent crime with Greeley's favorite subjects, guilt, power, sex, and the moral trouble hiding under respectable lives.

Kevin and Patrick grow up together on Chicago's West Side and enter the seminary. Over three decades, friendship, vocation, and power pull them in very different directions.

Two brothers, one a priest and one a senator, are shaped by a father with enormous plans for them. Their shared love for the same woman makes those plans explosive.

The Passover saga grows darker as family ambition, sexual betrayal, and public power drag its characters toward consequences they can no longer dodge.

Teenager Noele Farrell sees more than the adults around her, and her strange gifts pull her deep into the buried secrets of her Irish-American family.

Blackie Ryan investigates the bizarre locked-room death of Wolfe Quinlan, a man so hateful that nearly everyone around him had reason to want him dead.

When Cathy Collins vanishes from her South American convent, those who love her must sort saintly legend from the harder truth of her turbulent life.

A linked Chicago novel of love, grief, and public turmoil, where private wounds keep colliding with the larger drama around them.

A man finds himself able to affect other lives through a sophisticated computer game and a nudge of heaven. Power turns addictive very quickly.

Blackie Ryan returns for another church-soaked mystery, one full of grief, temptation, and bad behavior hiding behind respectable Catholic surfaces.

A wealthy matriarch is shot aboard her yacht on Lake Michigan, and her family looks immediately guilty. Blackie Ryan steps into a tangle of money, resentment, and murder.

Columnist Red Kane finally gets a lead that could destroy tycoon Harv Gunther. The price of exposing a monster may be higher than he can bear.

A Greeley novel of renewal and risk, where romance, ambition, and old loyalties make any fresh start more complicated than it first seems.

A battered religious colony reaches an unknown world and finds survival far from simple. Faith, leadership, and alien danger all come under pressure.

A man caught in modern intrigue discovers he has a glamorous guardian angel. Suspense, romance, and spiritual mystery all arrive at once.

Assistant district attorney Marie Lyons falls hard for attorney Conor Clarke. Their future depends on whether he can clear himself of the past that stains him.

A broad, character-rich novel that lets multiple women take center stage, moving through love, age, desire, disappointment, and the social rules around them.

Reporter Neal Conner comes home to Chicago and starts probing the suspicious death of an old friend. The case and his rekindled love for the widow quickly entwine.

Father Laurence McAuliffe takes on an assistant priest whose presence stirs parish conflict. Saving the younger man's future becomes a fight against bitterness and church politics.

Father Laurence McAuliffe is asked to play devil's advocate in a canonization case. His search into Cardinal McGlynn's past finds cracks in a saintly reputation.

Drawing on survey research, Greeley argues that marriage is sturdier and happier than the culture admits, looking closely at intimacy, fidelity, friendship, and prayer.

A battle-weary pilot falls in love with a woman who may be more ghost than memory. He refuses to give up until he knows who Maggie Ward really was.

A woman convicted of killing her parents may be innocent, and the prosecutor who helped send her away cannot let it go. He asks Blackie Ryan to dig deeper.

A prayer journal in which Greeley writes to God as a beloved presence, turning daily moods, fear, gratitude, and desire into conversation.

A collection of poems meditating on human and divine love, moving between sensual, social, and spiritual forms of desire.

Wealthy Chicago force Lorcan James Flynn cannot settle into success once his first love returns. Memory and desire push him toward hard truths about himself.

Kathleen Donahue's polished life shatters when she learns her rising-politician husband has a lover. The fallout becomes a sharp domestic and public drama.

Nora MacDonaugh has already had two husbands die under suspicious circumstances. Blackie Ryan may be the only man calm enough to see through charm and chaos.

Someone is trying to kill wealthy broker Bart Cain, and his family fears the long-vanished Mary Anne Haggerty is somehow involved. Blackie investigates the fear and the past.

Dermot Coyne's search into why his grandparents fled Ireland brings him close to danger. Nuala Anne McGrail turns family history into a living mystery.

With help from the angel Raphaella, Toby heads to Ireland to find the troubled Sara, solve an old mystery, and win an inheritance before danger catches him.

Ghostly unrest in a suburban parish brings Blackie Ryan to the case. What looks supernatural soon opens onto very human motives.

Greeley argues that religion works through stories, symbols, and imagination, not just rules, and tests that idea against modern social life.

A practical, compassionate meditation on suffering, written for readers trying to hold onto faith when pain, grief, or confusion will not let up.

A century-old murder and a family history of untimely deaths send Blackie Ryan into the past. Solving the old crime may be the only way to stop a new one.

Nuala's grim vision of a Civil War prison camp draws her and Dermot into a case involving corrupt politicians, art thieves, and terrorists.

A church-and-politics novel imagining a future conclave, where journalists, cardinals, and reformers circle the possibility of a radically different pope.

Jack Flanigan brings a lonely Russian student home to Chicago for Christmas. Family chaos, holiday warmth, and new love do the rest.

A deadly 1948 car wreck destroyed a circle of friends and sent Leo Kelly away. Decades later, he returns to the lake to uncover the cover-up and the love he lost.

Blackie feels out of place on an aircraft carrier until disappearances and a dead officer demand answers. The open sea only sharpens the mystery.

In postwar Bamberg, Chucky O'Malley keeps stumbling into danger, black market trouble, and a complicated romance with young Trudi.

Selfish media mogul Raymond Neenan is offered a deal by the Archangel Michael after a terrifying flight. Saving his soul means facing the damage he has done.

Weeks before the wedding, Nuala notices something deeply wrong at a bootlegger's grave. Dermot ends up chasing a mystery tied to gangster-era Chicago.

During a cold Christmas in Cologne, the relic of the Three Kings is stolen from the cathedral. Blackie needs more than logic to get it back.

Nuala's second sight points toward the murder of a leading Irish politician. Marriage does not slow her down, and Dermot is drawn into another case with roots in Ireland's past.

Back in Chicago after postwar Germany, Chucky O'Malley tries to build a life at home. The family saga widens as love, work, and history keep pulling at him.

Chucky O'Malley wants a quieter life, but Rosemarie and fate have other plans. Marriage, family ambition, and old sparks keep his world off balance.

Now married with a gifted child, Nuala probes the deaths of Irish-Americans from a century earlier. The trail leads to fresh enemies, including mobsters and a shady radio host.

When the widely disliked auxiliary bishop Gus Quill vanishes, Blackie Ryan is told to find him. The case turns sly, ecclesiastical, and unexpectedly dangerous.

Back in modern Ireland, Nuala and Dermot hunt a long-lost treasure. The quest puts them in the path of violence, greed, and old resentments.

Told through Rosemarie's eyes, this O'Malley novel follows Chucky from diplomacy in Germany into the upheavals of Selma, Chicago, and Vietnam.

Blackie is sent to find a vanished Dominican priest who is also a media star. The search opens onto secrets the church would rather keep buried.

At a Milan music festival, Nuala foresees doom around a hard man from Chicago. Dermot meanwhile digs into the old Haymarket Riot, giving the book two mysteries at once.

A sociological profile of belief across Europe at the end of the second millennium, pushing back against simple stories of steady secular decline.

A White House poltergeist pulls Blackie Ryan to Washington, where ghosts, conspiracy, and danger gather around a newly elected president.

A themed anthology of essays, poems, stories, and songs exploring love as both a human need and a virtue worth passing on.

In 1978, nearly fifty and worn down by the times, Chucky O'Malley drifts into a midlife crisis. Family love, especially Rosemarie's, may be what brings him back.

A Russian Orthodox monk is shot inside a locked office at a Chicago divinity school. Blackie Ryan finds theology, espionage, and mob intrigue tangled together.

An accessible catechism on central Christian beliefs, from God and Jesus to prayer, baptism, salvation, and the Catholic imagination.

Part memoir, part running argument, this book gathers Greeley's reflections on priesthood, writing, church politics, and the quarrels that shaped his public life.

The O'Malleys enter the Reagan era under heavy strain, grieving a death and facing a family crisis. A separate disappearance draws them into an older, colder mystery.

Using survey data and blunt argument, Greeley examines the modern priesthood, the abuse crisis, and possible reforms for a calling under heavy strain.

Greeley revisits Vatican II and argues that ordinary Catholics changed more deeply than church leaders expected, reshaping authority, practice, and identity.

After witnessing abuse by another priest, Father Hugh Hoffman refuses to stay quiet. His story becomes a blunt, personal novel about conscience, cover-up, and the cost of telling the truth.

Nuala and Dermot look into a supposed hit-and-run involving troubled young Damian O'Sullivan. A second mystery, hidden in an old Donegal diary, deepens the family scandal.

Three execution-style murders inside St. Lucy's sanctuary pull Blackie into a gentrifying Chicago neighborhood full of threats, ghosts from the past, and competing visions of renewal.

Greeley unpacks the conclave that chose Benedict XVI, tracing the personalities, factions, and church politics behind the white smoke.

A troubling dream, a hostile immigration scare, and a riverfront car bombing push Nuala and Dermot into one of their most dangerous cases. The trail reaches both Chicago secrets and Irish rebellion.

Freshman senator Tommy Moran wants decency in politics, but attack ads, temptation, and violence close in fast. The hardest fight may be with his own priest brother.

A collection of Greeley's columns on Iraq, arguing that the war was morally reckless, politically dishonest, and disastrous in human cost.

A young Chicago peace activist disappears in Iraq, and Nuala refuses to accept the official story. At the same time, an older European wartime plot rises out of buried papers.

Greeley offers a reflective portrait of Jesus through gospel stories, stressing surprise, compassion, and the women who shape the drama around him.

Blackie is asked to watch a rival churchman at a family estate already boiling with inheritance fights. Then attempted murder turns the visit into a locked-room mystery.

Nuala and Dermot step in when an older couple's unexpected romance comes under attack. What starts as family opposition soon looks like something much darker and more violent.

Blackie Ryan heads to Seville to prevent a murder inside a wealthy aristocratic family. Spanish pride, inheritance battles, and frustrated desire make the danger feel close and constant.

After war hero Peter Kane is badly injured in Iraq, he is granted a startling second chance. His race back toward Mariana turns into a Christmas story about love, guilt, and grace.

Bullies target Nuala Anne McGrail's family just as Dermot digs into a famine-era medical mystery. Domestic worry and old Irish history meet in another fey Chicago investigation.

A concise, data-driven portrait of Chicago-area Catholics, looking at belief, practice, church authority, and why many stay attached to Catholic life on their own terms.