New Liffey Rivers Thriller Unfolds
Under Celtic Blood Moon
The ancient Celtic Blood Moon
summons 13-year-old Irish dancer
Liffey Rivers back to Ireland, plunging
her into deadly danger as she
searches for the mysterious woman
who wears a diamond ‘M,’ on the
summit of the Mountain of the Moon.
Sligo, Ireland. September 1, 2008--
13-year-old Irish dancer Liffey Rivers
finds herself summoned back to
Ireland by the ancient Celtic Blood
Moon and plunged into deadly danger
in the much anticipated third book of
the Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer Mystery
Series: Liffey Rivers and The Secret of
the Mountain of the Moon, by Brenna
Briggs. (ISBN (10): 1419652907; ISBN
(13): 9781419652905, 178 pages,
perfect/trade paper: $13.99).
According to Briggs, “I originally
created high-strung Irish dancer Liffey
Rivers to address, what I believe to be,
some of the emotional stress the world
of competitive Irish dancing causes
many of its young dancers. And since I
have never quite managed to say
good-bye to my imaginary ‘best friend,’
the immortal sleuth, Nancy Drew, Liffey
Rivers became a girl detective.”
“Michael Flatley, with his amazing
dancing ability and choreographic
genius breathed new life into the real
world of Irish dancing,” continues
Briggs. “Irish dancer, Liffey Rivers,
offers a breath of fresh air to young
competitive Irish dancers: intrigue and
suspense, along with some painless
Irish history lessons.”
Irish Dance and Cultural Magazine
says, “Liffey Rivers...will keep you
guessing right through to the end,
starring a quirky Irish dancer who
should not be underestimated!”
Liffey Rivers and The Secret of the
Mountain of the Moon is available
through bookstores and online at www.
amazon.com.
Additional information is available at:
www.liffeyrivers.com
Contact:
Brockagh Books
Naryana
Strandhill Road
Sligo
Ireland
0862369343
info@liffeyrivers.com
Under Celtic Blood Moon
The ancient Celtic Blood Moon
summons 13-year-old Irish dancer
Liffey Rivers back to Ireland, plunging
her into deadly danger as she
searches for the mysterious woman
who wears a diamond ‘M,’ on the
summit of the Mountain of the Moon.
Sligo, Ireland. September 1, 2008--
13-year-old Irish dancer Liffey Rivers
finds herself summoned back to
Ireland by the ancient Celtic Blood
Moon and plunged into deadly danger
in the much anticipated third book of
the Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer Mystery
Series: Liffey Rivers and The Secret of
the Mountain of the Moon, by Brenna
Briggs. (ISBN (10): 1419652907; ISBN
(13): 9781419652905, 178 pages,
perfect/trade paper: $13.99).
According to Briggs, “I originally
created high-strung Irish dancer Liffey
Rivers to address, what I believe to be,
some of the emotional stress the world
of competitive Irish dancing causes
many of its young dancers. And since I
have never quite managed to say
good-bye to my imaginary ‘best friend,’
the immortal sleuth, Nancy Drew, Liffey
Rivers became a girl detective.”
“Michael Flatley, with his amazing
dancing ability and choreographic
genius breathed new life into the real
world of Irish dancing,” continues
Briggs. “Irish dancer, Liffey Rivers,
offers a breath of fresh air to young
competitive Irish dancers: intrigue and
suspense, along with some painless
Irish history lessons.”
Irish Dance and Cultural Magazine
says, “Liffey Rivers...will keep you
guessing right through to the end,
starring a quirky Irish dancer who
should not be underestimated!”
Liffey Rivers and The Secret of the
Mountain of the Moon is available
through bookstores and online at www.
amazon.com.
Additional information is available at:
www.liffeyrivers.com
Contact:
Brockagh Books
Naryana
Strandhill Road
Sligo
Ireland
0862369343
info@liffeyrivers.com
Following the critically acclaimed first book of the Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer series, Brockagh Books has launched the sequel: Liffey Rivers and the Mystery of the Winking Judge by Brenna Briggs. County Sligo, Ireland. March 13, 2007. Brockagh Books is celebrating this year’s St. Patrick’s Day with the publication of the second book in its Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer-Girl Detective series: Liffey Rivers and the Mystery of the Winking Judge, by Brenna Briggs. (ISBN (10): 1419652907; ISBN (13): 9781419652905, 140 pages, perfect/trade paper $12.99). There are 228 Irish dance competitions, or feiseanna, scheduled in North America in 2007; 28 are in Canada and 1 is in Mexico. In Europe, countries such as Germany, Poland, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Finland and The Netherlands have joined Ireland and the UK in planning traditional Irish dance competitions. There are even feiseanna set to debut in Moscow and Ukraine in 2007. Irish dancing is well on its way to becoming Ireland’s most popular export. Author Brenna Briggs has created 13-year-old Irish Dancer- Girl Detective, Liffey Rivers, to subtly fuse the familiar backdrop of an Irish dance competition with “disguised” Irish history and culture information for her readers. For instance, in The Mystery of the Winking Judge, Ms. Briggs introduces ancient Ogham stone letters in a design on Liffey’s first solo competition dress which spells out her last name: R-I-V-E-R-S. Liffey Rivers and the Mystery of the Winking Judge is available online at Amazon.com, Abebooks.com, Waldenbooks. com and Borders.com. Also independent booksellers, and Borders Books through Baker & Taylor. Website: www.liffeyrivers.com Contact: Stephanie Black Brockagh Books County Sligo Ireland 353-719166988 stephanieblack@liffeyrivers.com |
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Blood Diamonds Prominent In
Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer Mysteries
13-year-old Irish dancer Liffey Rivers
routinely foils flow of Conflict Diamonds
at Irish Dance competitions.
County Sligo, Ireland. February 28,
2009. “My conflict diamond IQ was way
below average when I started writing
the first Liffey Rivers Irish dancer
mystery in 2005,” says Irish-American,
young adult author Brenna Briggs. “I
had heard of illicit diamonds being
smuggled out of Africa to bankroll
rebels before I did research for Liffey
Rivers and the Mystery of the
Sparkling Solo Dress Crown, but I had
no idea of the extent and the
unimaginable atrocities that had
become routine in the blood diamond
networks. It is a relief to learn this week
that more of the Sierra Leone
diamond smugglers have been
convicted of crimes against humanity.”
In several of Briggs’ Irish dancer
mysteries, 13-year-old heroine Liffey
Rivers routinely disrupts international
blood diamond smuggling schemes
while not missing a step at her Irish
dance competitions. “Using the exciting
world of Irish dancing as a backdrop, it
has been possible to describe the
channels through which conflict
diamonds flow to a young audience,”
says Briggs.
The Irish World in London states that
Brenna Briggs “has created the perfect
series of adventures for Irish
dancers....lovers of Ireland and lovers
of a great mystery and a good way for
kids to learn a bit more about...other
cultures.”
The Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer
Mysteries are available online at
Amazon.com and at booksellers in the
U.S.
Website: www.liffeyrivers.com
Contact:
Stephanie Black
Brockagh Books
County Sligo
Ireland
353-0862369343
stephanieblack@liffeyrivers.com
Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer Mysteries
13-year-old Irish dancer Liffey Rivers
routinely foils flow of Conflict Diamonds
at Irish Dance competitions.
County Sligo, Ireland. February 28,
2009. “My conflict diamond IQ was way
below average when I started writing
the first Liffey Rivers Irish dancer
mystery in 2005,” says Irish-American,
young adult author Brenna Briggs. “I
had heard of illicit diamonds being
smuggled out of Africa to bankroll
rebels before I did research for Liffey
Rivers and the Mystery of the
Sparkling Solo Dress Crown, but I had
no idea of the extent and the
unimaginable atrocities that had
become routine in the blood diamond
networks. It is a relief to learn this week
that more of the Sierra Leone
diamond smugglers have been
convicted of crimes against humanity.”
In several of Briggs’ Irish dancer
mysteries, 13-year-old heroine Liffey
Rivers routinely disrupts international
blood diamond smuggling schemes
while not missing a step at her Irish
dance competitions. “Using the exciting
world of Irish dancing as a backdrop, it
has been possible to describe the
channels through which conflict
diamonds flow to a young audience,”
says Briggs.
The Irish World in London states that
Brenna Briggs “has created the perfect
series of adventures for Irish
dancers....lovers of Ireland and lovers
of a great mystery and a good way for
kids to learn a bit more about...other
cultures.”
The Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer
Mysteries are available online at
Amazon.com and at booksellers in the
U.S.
Website: www.liffeyrivers.com
Contact:
Stephanie Black
Brockagh Books
County Sligo
Ireland
353-0862369343
stephanieblack@liffeyrivers.com
PRESS RELEASES
IRISH DANCING COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE
The Black Mamba snake is fast but Irish
Dancer-Girl Detective Liffey Rivers is faster
when she employs an Irish dance step to save
her life in the fourth book of the Liffey Rivers
mystery series by Brenna Briggs, In the
Shadow of the Serpent.
County Sligo, Ireland; July 8, 2010 - Brockagh
Books has announced that the 4th book in its
Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer mystery series, In
the Shadow of the Serpent, by Brenna Briggs,
is now available through U.S. bookstores and
online. (ISBN-13: 978-1439271384; ISBN-10:
1439271380, 198 pages: $12.99).
“Survival Irish dancing has arrived,” says
author Brenna Briggs, describing 13-year-old
Irish dancer heroine Liffey Rivers’ adventures
on a Christmas safari in South Africa. “Before
this resourceful young dancer walks into a
deadly trap set for her at an Irish dance
competition in Johannesburg, she manages
to dodge a charging rhino, fend off a pride of
lions, re-route an enraged mother elephant
and thwart an attack by a deadly Black Mamba
snake using a common Irish dance step,”
says Briggs.
More information about In the Shadow of the
Serpent and the Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer
mystery series is available at www.liffeyrivers.
com
Contact: info@liffeyrivers.com
BOOK ONE
BOOK FOUR
BOOK THREE
BOOK TWO
First Collection of Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer
Mysteries Short Stories
The world of Irish dance competitions
(feiseanna) is a labyrinth of puzzling
mysteries which 13-year-old Irish dancer
Liffey Rivers struggles to unravel in this first
collection of short stories in the Liffey Rivers
Irish Dancer Mystery Series.
Lake Geneva, Wis.; July 12, 2011 – Author
Brenna Briggs’ Liffey Rivers: Four Mini
Mysteries is a collection of four revised Liffey
Rivers Irish Dancer short stories which were
originally published in Irish Dancing and
Culture Magazine. It is now available online
and through bookstores in the U.S.A. (ISBN-
13: 978-1461103011,180 pages, paperback,
$12.99).
In "The Mystery of the Missing Novice," Liffey
Rivers observes that there are two unrelated
young dancers at an Irish dance competition
in Pittsburgh who look like identical twins.
When one of them goes missing, Liffey's
intuition and attention to detail brings about
the safe return of the missing novice. "The
Case of the Clumsy Clowns," finds Liffey
suspecting that a group of klutzy clowns, who
call themselves the Joyful Jesters, might be
up to something more than entertaining their
audience in a small Wisconsin town. In "The
Mystery of the Temporary Trophy," Liffey is at
a feis in New York with her Aunt Jean who is
suffering from Post Traumatic Bling
Syndrome. Liffey observes that one of the
trophies to be awarded at this feis looks
suspiciously like the ancient Derrynaflan
Chalice she has seen before in a Dublin
museum. In "The Werewolves of Ossory,"
Liffey rescues a frightened dancer from
Ireland who has traveled alone to the Seattle
Halloween Feis burdened with a centuries
old family curse.
More information about Liffey Rivers: Four
Mini Mysteries and the Liffey Rivers Irish
Dancer mystery series is available at www.
liffeyrivers.com
Contact: info@liffeyrivers.com
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The Alaskan Sun, Book #5 Of The Liffey
Rivers Irish Dancer Mystery Series
Available
14-year-old Irish Dancer Liffey Rivers'
itinerary on an Alaskan cruise includes ship
to shore excursions, panning for gold, polar
bear sightings, a feis in Anchorage and her
worst nightmare.
Mineral Point, Wisconsin. June 15, 2012 –
The Alaskan Sun, Book No. 5 of the Liffey
Rivers Irish Dancer Mystery Series by Brenna
Briggs is now available through U. S.
bookstores and online worldwide:
Paperback: 224 pages, Publisher: Brockagh
Books (June 12, 2012), ISBN-10:
1477510575 ISBN-13: 978-1477510575.
Author Brenna Briggs readily admits that she
is always looking for a “twist” or the
unforeseen in everyday life.
This ‘things are not always what they seem’
outlook resulted in the creation of Brockagh
Books ('brockagh' means 'place of the
badger' in Irish) when she lived in County
Sligo, Ireland, and publishing five critically
acclaimed Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer
Mysteries and one anthology of previously
published Liffey Rivers short stories.
“The format is simple,” says Briggs. “Liffey
Rivers has a knack for noticing the little
things that most people walk right by. This
leads to her poking her nose into things and
not unpredictably, she ends up in dangerous
situations which ultimately result in her
solving mysteries within a backdrop of Irish
dance competitions--feiseanna."
“This formula works well because feiseanna
are held all over the globe, allowing Liffey to
logically travel to glamorous places as she
participates in the exciting world of Irish
dancing.”
Book No.5, The Alaskan Sun, features Liffey
traveling in Alaska's Inner Passage with her
family and best friend, Sinead McGowan.
Stunning scenery, exciting ship to shore
excursions, a first boyfriend, an Irish dance
competition (feis) in Anchorage and an epic
grand finale, should provide Liffey Rivers
readers from ages 8-13 and up, a fast-paced
introduction to their summer reading.
info@liffeyrivers.com
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Rivers Irish Dancer Mystery Series
Available
14-year-old Irish Dancer Liffey Rivers'
itinerary on an Alaskan cruise includes ship
to shore excursions, panning for gold, polar
bear sightings, a feis in Anchorage and her
worst nightmare.
Mineral Point, Wisconsin. June 15, 2012 –
The Alaskan Sun, Book No. 5 of the Liffey
Rivers Irish Dancer Mystery Series by Brenna
Briggs is now available through U. S.
bookstores and online worldwide:
Paperback: 224 pages, Publisher: Brockagh
Books (June 12, 2012), ISBN-10:
1477510575 ISBN-13: 978-1477510575.
Author Brenna Briggs readily admits that she
is always looking for a “twist” or the
unforeseen in everyday life.
This ‘things are not always what they seem’
outlook resulted in the creation of Brockagh
Books ('brockagh' means 'place of the
badger' in Irish) when she lived in County
Sligo, Ireland, and publishing five critically
acclaimed Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer
Mysteries and one anthology of previously
published Liffey Rivers short stories.
“The format is simple,” says Briggs. “Liffey
Rivers has a knack for noticing the little
things that most people walk right by. This
leads to her poking her nose into things and
not unpredictably, she ends up in dangerous
situations which ultimately result in her
solving mysteries within a backdrop of Irish
dance competitions--feiseanna."
“This formula works well because feiseanna
are held all over the globe, allowing Liffey to
logically travel to glamorous places as she
participates in the exciting world of Irish
dancing.”
Book No.5, The Alaskan Sun, features Liffey
traveling in Alaska's Inner Passage with her
family and best friend, Sinead McGowan.
Stunning scenery, exciting ship to shore
excursions, a first boyfriend, an Irish dance
competition (feis) in Anchorage and an epic
grand finale, should provide Liffey Rivers
readers from ages 8-13 and up, a fast-paced
introduction to their summer reading.
info@liffeyrivers.com
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BOOK 5