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You don�t need to be Irish to enjoy St. Patrick�s Day in Maine, where the chilly March weather offers the perfect excuse to curl up with an Irish coffee. But someone may have spiked this year�s brew with murder . . . IRISH COFFEE MURDER by LESLIE MEIER Part-time reporter Lucy Stone is writing a piece for the Courier about four Irish step dancing students from Tinker�s Cove on the cusp of making it big. But the story becomes headline news for all the wrong reasons when one girl�s mother is found dead in her bathtub. Did a stage mom take rivalry too far, or is some other motive at play? DEATH OF AN IRISH COFFEE DRINKER by LEE HOLLIS As owner of Bar Harbor�s hottest new restaurant, Hayley Powell offers to cater the after-party for popular comedian Jefferson O�Keefe, who�s playing his old hometown for St. Patrick�s Day. But it�s no laughing matter when Jefferson keels over after gulping down his post-show Irish coffee, leaving Hayley to figure out who decided this joker had gone too far . . . PERKED UP by BARBARA ROSS It�s a snowy St. Patrick�s Day in Busman�s Harbor. But when the power goes out, what better way for Julia Snowden to spend the evening than sharing local ghost stories�and Irish coffees�with friends and family? By the time the lights come back, they might even have solved the coldest case in town . . .