
Lewis Cole
mystery
Series · mystery
The Nuala Anne McGrail series by Andrew M. Greeley has 12 books and is best read in publication order, starting with Irish Gold (1994).
Start here: Irish Gold (1994) — then read straight through in publication order.
The order the books were released — the default way to read the series.
Nuala Anne McGrail is a young Irish singer with second sight who moves to Chicago, marries financier Dermot Michael Coyne (the series' narrator), and keeps stumbling into mysteries that her psychic hunches, rather than conventional detective work, unravel. Across twelve novels -- all but one titled for an Irish word or phrase (Irish Gold, Irish Lace, Irish Whiskey...) -- the series tracks Nuala Anne and Dermot's marriage and growing family alongside the mysteries, blending cozy domestic comedy, Chicago Irish-American culture, and Greeley's recurring interest in the mystical and supernatural.
Twelve, published 1994-2009.
Its narrator-detective duo is a happily married couple -- singer/psychic Nuala Anne McGrail and financier Dermot Michael Coyne -- and mysteries are often solved through Nuala Anne's second sight rather than conventional deduction.
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