MURDER AT THE BLARNEY BASH

Leprechauns invade Beacon Harbor, Michigan.

Well, maybe just one, and that one may be a figment of Finnigan O’Connor’s imagination. Finn and his daughter, Colleen, who have moved from Ireland, are opening a gift shop and micropub in Beacon Harbor, a delightful town on the shore of Lake Michigan. Finn’s nephew, former Navy SEAL Rory Campbell, is dating crime-solving baker Lindsey Bakewell, while Lindsey’s best friend, Kennedy Kapoor, who left town after their last murder case (abandoning brokenhearted police officer Tuck McAllister), has returned with a new boyfriend, Englishman Niall Fitzhugh. Lindsey and her crew are busy baking St. Patrick’s Day treats to stock her bakery and celebrate the grand opening of Finn and Colleen’s store and pub. Lindsey scoffs at the reports of leprechauns from people around town until one of them runs into the side of her car, fleeing the scene of his attack on city worker Fred Landry and leaving behind green and gold glitter. Finn, who attempts to lure the leprechaun with green beer and special treats, eventually turns up with a pot of gold. In the meantime, Kennedy, who acts strangely jealous of Colleen’s flirting with Tuck, is extremely annoyed with Niall, who’d promised her exclusive Irish walking capes for her store and then apparently supplied them to Colleen’s shop. When the police arrest Finn for the murder of a leprechaun with a shillelagh and he stubbornly refuses to turn over the gold or even say where he found it, the sleuths spring into action to find the real killer.

An often amusing romantic mystery with an Irish accent.