Irish tweed
Subtitle: a Nuala Anne McGrail Mystery
By: Andrew Greeley
Edition: Doubleday large print ed.
Series: Nuala Anne McGrail novels
Publisher: Forge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781607516675
Subjects: Nuala Anne McGrail (Fictitious character); Fiction; Women detectives; Irish Americans; Psychics; History
Description: Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish-speaking woman blessed with the gift of second sight, and her daughter have taken up karate to fight off schoolyard bullies who are harassing the family, while their incredibly shy nanny, Julie, is courted by a new fellow. Meanwhile Nuala Anne's husband, Dermot, pores over a memoir of a famine refugee whose family died of a mysterious fever, looking for clues to the cause of the illness.