The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood

This was my first Greeley mystery and while I found it long winded at times and maybe unduly complicated at times, I stayed with until the end. I was raise Catholic in a very religious home but I still found many of the inside workings of the hierarchy of the Church covered in this volume interesting and enlightening.

The plot is introduced with the murder and mutilation of three young people found in the sacristy of St. Lucy's RC church. Crime solving Bishop "Blackie" Ryan is immediately introduced as the hero.who figures out the complicated crime which all hings on sorting out who murdered six young people in 1944. Many of the characters are pleasant and interesting.

This is volume five in a six volume plus series with Bishop Ryan as show more the hero. show less

2012
This wasn't the best Blackie Ryan mystery, but it probably raised fewer hackles for devout Catholics...that is, if devout Catholics read Andrew Greeley. I personally find him a good author to read every year or so. But then again, I'm not Catholic--devout ot otherwise! :-)

2016
Just finished reading this on my kindle app....and never once did I think it was even remotely familiar. I had no idea I had read it before. Senility is scary. At any rate, my opinion didn't change in 4 years!

I can't recall what the plot on this specific Bishop Blackie novel is, but I always enjoy Blackie Ryan novels over all of Andrew Greeley's other works. I also enjoy how everyone is tied in together.