On a rocky beach in the southwest of Ireland, the body of Jimmy O’Reilly, sixty-nine years old and dressed in a suit and his dancing shoes, is propped on a boulder, staring sightlessly out to sea. A cryptic message is spelled out next to the body with sixty-nine polished black stones and a discarded vial of deadly veterinarian medication lies nearby. Jimmy was a wealthy racehorse owner, known far and wide as The Dancing Man. In a town like Dingle,...

If only her mother could be here! The entire O?Sullivan brood?not to mention the regulars from Naomi?s Bistro?have gathered at St. Mary?s Church for the wedding of Siobh?n and Macdara. It?s not every day you see two garda marrying each other. Only Siobh?n?s brother James is missing. They can?t start without him. But when James finally comes racing in, he?s covered in dirt and babbling he?s found a human skeleton in the old slurry pit at the farmhouse....

Overwhelmed by her duties training the new town gaurd while planning her wedding, Siobhán visits a discriminating new bookshop in town before becoming embroiled in the murder of a visiting author who had infamously insulted the work of another writer.

Three cozy novellas that take place on St. Patrick's Day include the tale of a killer green milkshake at a New Jersey luncheonette and another murderous milkshake that takes out a wedding guest on a ferry trip to Inis M�or.