[.ca] The Bishop at the Lake: A Blackie Ryan Story (ISBN 0765315890)

Mysterious and interesting:
Father Andrew M. Greeley, is a priest, sociologist and a native of Chicago. He is professor of social sciences at the University of Chicago and the University of Arizona, as well as Research Associate at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. In his newest bestseller--The Bishop at the Lake: A Bishop Blackie Ryan Novel--Bishop Blackie confronts another mystery, this one with hornets. Chicago's coolest cleric is dispatched to posh Grand Beach, enclave of the rich and contentious Nolan clan, under orders to sniff around. The recent, possibly sneaky behavior of Archbishop Malachi Nolan, son of the progenitor, has piqued the interest of Blackie's boss(Sean Cardinal Cronin.) Ever alert to the surge of others ambition, the Cardinal is concerned about the precise shape of Malachi's. Opportunities for sniffing, however, vanish when Malachi is ferociously attacked. His whole family knows Malachi's unfortunate history with hornets, whose bites have led to severe allergic reactions. Someone has managed to introduce and unleash a swarm of them into the locked room in question, and the result is nearly lethal. The Cardinal enjoins Blackie, who solves it. Father Greeley has written scores of books and hundreds of popular and scholarly articles on a variety of issues in sociology, education and religion.