Found it confusing to start in the lawyer’s point of view and then go to the bishop’s POV fir the last half of the book. Thought the placement of clues was very well done. Could have used more delving into her past as a platform for the resolution. Liked it, though. ( )

2453 Happy Are the Merciful: A Blackie Ryan Mystery, by Andrew M. Greeley (read 10 Jul 1992) This book is trash. Poorly written, and the courtroom scenes are awful. This is a story of two people killed in a locked room in a rich north of Chicago suburb, the trial and conviction of their adopted daughter, the prosecuting attorney falling in love with the daughter, and Father, now Bishop, Blackwood Ryan solving the mystery. This is not serious fiction--it is pulp. It reads easily and one wants to keep reading, but there is nothing to it. Tom Clancy is a literary genius compared to this. It is bad sloppy writing. ( )