The Secret of the Mountain of the Moon is the third book of The Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer Mystery Series. The ancient Irish believed that people were affected by the cycles of the moon and that the moon had real power over the deeds of men. After dancing at an Irish dancing competition (feis) in Beltra, Ireland, 13-year-old Irish dancer Liffey Rivers experiences an extraordinary phenomenon directly above Queen Maeve's cairn in County Sligo, Ireland, on the summit of Knocknarea (the Mountain of the Moon). Soon after this paranormal event, Liffey finds herself seeking answers to life and death...

In Book #4 of the Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer Mysteries, 13-year-old Irish dancer Liffey Rivers is on safari in South Africa with her eccentric Aunt Jean, en route to an Irish dancing competition in Johannesburg. After dodging a charging rhino, fending off a pride of lions and re-routing an enraged mother elephant, Liffey's problems have just begun. When Liffey is confronted by a deadly Black Mamba snake in the tall savanna grasses, she must rely on instinct and her Irish dance training to survive. At the Johannesburg Feis, Liffey's troubles continue and she again finds herself, this time with...

Four Mini Mysteries is the only collection of the Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer Mysteries in short story form. These Liffey Rivers short mysteries were originally published as serialized, monthly installments in Irish Dancing and Culture Magazine. In "The Mystery of the Missing Novice," Liffey notices that there are two unrelated young dancers at an Irish dance competition (feis) who look like identical twins. When one of them goes missing, Liffey's intuition and attention to detail bring about the safe return of the missing novice. In "The Case of the Clumsy Clowns," Liffey suspects that a...

In Book #5 of The Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer Mysteries, 14-year-old Liffey Rivers is miles above the earth, en route to Amsterdam, relieved that her harrowing experiences in South Africa are finally over, when she notices that a man on the plane is wearing identical Italian leather shoes worn by a man who had delivered a picnic basket earlier in the day at the Johannesburg Feis. She had not seen that man's face, which had been masked by over-sized sunglasses but she had noticed the shoes that he was wearing. When she opened the picnic basket, a Black Mamba snake popped out. Her intuition told...