Lucy Stone must untangle an Irish legend and catch a killer before she literally loses her head, literally during a St. Patrick’s Day celebration.

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Author Leslie Meier has added new colorful characters, Irish and Celtic mythology, and the missing “pot of money” to stir up action in her whodunit series. Everybody is a little bit Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, but nobody expects to see a headless body floating in the bay. Was it just a coincidence that the victim’s brother and his family just arrived to direct and appear in “Finian’s Rainbow” for the holiday festivities or was it murder? The play’s director can’t direct, the leading singer can’t sing, and the police can’t seem to catch a murderer. Frustrated Lucy Stone splits her time between learning her part in the show, her surly teenager’s actions, babysitting the director’s daughter and her son’s girlfriend’s unexpected troubled pregnancy. Will Lucy live to see her grandchild born, or has her luck of the Irish just run out?