In Book #2 of the Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer Mysteries, there is more intrigue at the National Portrait Gallery in London than 13-year-old Irish dancer Liffey Rivers could have ever imagined How will she tell the smug-looking security guard in the museum that she has discovered there is something very WRONG with the Coronation Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I hanging in the Tudor Gallery? And how can she even pretend she is ready to dance next week at an Irish dance competition (feis) in County Sligo, Ireland? And WHY is the judge at the Beltra Feis winking at everyone? Irish dance adjudicators...

In Book #6 of the Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer Mystery series, 14-year-old Irish dancer Liffey Rivers sets out during a freak November 1st blizzard in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, to help a friend decipher a mysterious puzzle that may lead to an undiscovered gold mine. When a blast of frigid wind deposits a huge pile of snow in her path, Liffey uses her Irish dancing training to launch herself over it and discovers that High Street has two sides: a Gray Dog Deli side and a Red Rooster Cafe side. Same direction. Very different paths. The Mystery of the Pointing Dog is Wisconsin historical fiction...

Ten MAIDS (Mothers Addicted to Irish Dancing) are traveling with their daughters' U-13 8-Hand Ceili Team to the World Irish Dance Championships, following a four week intensive practice period which almost destroys their dance school. Bringing with them enough emotional baggage to fill up the Grand Canyon, they are forced to confront 'serious' obstacles coming at them from every direction. Among many significant concerns are: a no-show TCRG, no hotel reserved rooms, petty differences and a psychotic mom. How they survive and apply their mothering 'skills' amidst the epic chaos nipping at...

Liffey Rivers' world is changed forever when she begins to mediate daily in between the two old ginkgo trees in her backyard--voices coming from the ground beneath her, earth tremors, the discovery of an ancient Native American effigy, a mysterious Catholic nun in a white habit floating above her like wispy smoke from a chimney. Almost extinct box turtles are in her yard everyday and there is a mysterious air quality problem in Mineral Point with no apparent cause. When high school students are terrorized by what appears to be a vampire, waiting for their school bus one morning, the Chief of...