Andrew M Greeley

Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish-speaking woman blessed with the gift of second sight, and her husband and accomplice, Dermot Michael Coyne, investigate the brutal beating of Finnbar Burke, the "nice fella" with whom their shy, golden-haired nanny has fallen in love, who is found floating in the Chicago River. Set in late nineteenth-century Chicago.

"A burned out TV correspondent and celebrity, convinced you can't go home again does just that to cover the Chicago election. He goes back to his old neighborhood to find many of his childhood friends still there and some of them in trouble. He soon becomes involved and unable to leave." -- Goodreads.com.