You can't miss Lindsey Bakewell's Beacon Bakeshop. Just look for the
lighthouse on the shore of Lake Michigan--or follow the aroma of holiday
treats for St. Patrick's Day. This year's celebration in Beacon Harbor
features a grade-school leprechaun parade and a most unusual murder . .
.
Lindsey is baking up a storm--shamrock sugar cookies, Guinness chocolate
cupcakes, Irish soda bread--for the well-timed grand opening of the
Irish import gift shop, the Blarney Stone, owned by her boyfriend's
uncle, Finnigan O'Connor, recently relocated from the Emerald Isle.
But it's Uncle Finn himself who seems full of blarney when he gleefully
reveals a pot of real gold he claims he stole from an actual leprechaun.
And Finn's fortune takes a turn for the worse when he's arrested for the
bludgeoning of a small unidentified man dressed as a leprechaun--the
murder weapon alleged to be his now-missing shillelagh.
Eccentric Uncle Finn may enjoy believing he's outwitted a leprechaun,
but he would never be so deluded as to clobber one with his walking
stick. Now Lindsey will need more than the luck of the Irish to seize a
golden opportunity to catch the real killer . . .
