New Releases by Carol Higgins Clark

Pas de répit pour Regan Reilly ! Comment un paisible week-end d'anniversaire en famille peut se transformer en chasse à l'homme. Ou plutôt à la femme... Car la belle Cleo Paradise, star montante du cinéma, a mystérieusement disparu en laissant toutes ses affaires dans la maison qu'elle louait au bord de la mer et l'excentrique propriétaire a décidé de les mettre en vente lors d'un vide-grenier géant. Alors que les fans de l'actrice accourent de toutes parts, la détective Regan Reilly et sa mère Nora se lancent sur la piste de Cleo, sans se douter que les jours de cette dernière sont peut-être comptés. Une fois encore, Carol Higgins Clark nous offre un délicieux mélange d'humour et de suspense peuplé de personnages aussi farfelus qu'attachants. « Rapide, glamour et terriblement bien ficelé. » Los Angeles Times « Aussi amusant que passionnant. » USA Today

Noël vous réserve sans doute des surprises. Mais pas forcément celles auxquelles vous vous attendiez... New York. Au pied du Rockefeller Center sur la 5e Avenue, on fête Noël en musique autour d'un immense sapin. Mais cette année, une mystérieuse disparition dans les forêts du Vermont risque de gâcher cette tradition. À moins qu'avant les douze coups de minuit, Regan Reilly et Alvirah Meehan ne démasquent celui qui s'est emparé de l'arbre, et d'un butin beaucoup plus précieux qu'on ne le croit...

En compagnie de Regan Reilly, nous pénétrons le cercle très fermé de la jet-set américaine d'Aspen. La détective de choc pourrait-elle trouver mieux pour se détendre que cette station d'hiver très en vogue ? Des voleurs de tableaux sans scrupule en ont décidé autrement. La neige tombe, l'atmosphère se fait glaciale, des malfrats préparent un mauvais coup qui devrait rapporter un million de dollars. Des chefs-d'oeuvre disparaissent et tout accuse un cambrioleur repenti en qui Regan Reilly a une totale confiance. Décidée à prouver son innocence, la détective se lance sur une piste... très noire, d'une extrême difficulté !

Enfin un week-end en amoureux ! Pour fêter leur premier anniversaire de mariage, Regan Reilly et son mari Jack ont élu Cape Cod, ses plages sauvages et son décor de rêve. Mais leur tête-à-tête est de courte durée : Adele Hopkins, une retraitée récemment installée sur l'île, disparaît au cours d'une violente nuit de tempête. Très vite, tout porte à croire qu'elle n'avait pas que des amis. La course contre la montre commence pour Jack et Regan qui ne sont pas près d'oublier cet anniversaire...

Three days before Christmas, Alvirah Meehan, the famous lottery winner and amateur detective, meets Regan Reilly in a New Jersey dentist''s office. Regan is there in search of her busy father, who is scheduled for a routine visit. However, it is soon apparent that Luke Reilly is not going to keep his appointment. But Regan''s worry turns to panic when a call comes through on her cell phone telling her that her father and his driver, Rosita Gonzalez, are being held for $1,000,000 ransom. She turns to Alvirah, because although Regan is a licensed detective in L.A., it is Alvirah who has the valuable contacts amongst the ranks of New York''s law enforcement community. As Regan and Alvirah desperately try to meet the harsh demands and tough deadline of the kidnappers, Luke and Rosita, held captive on a decrepit houseboat moored in the Hudson River, are becoming increasingly terrified. And to make matters worse, a winter storm is gathering, putting their lives in even greater danger.... DECK THE HALLS is filled with twists and turns, intrigue and danger, as well as a hearty dose of holiday cheer. Mary and Carol Higgins Clark have created a breathless, yet heart-warming story of suspense in their first collaboration - a Christmas classic for many holiday seasons to come.

When Regan Reilly returned to the West Coast, where she began her career as a PI, she never imagined that her unsuccessful appearance on a game show seven years earlier would throw her trip totally off course! Regan Reilly is in Los Angeles with her husband, Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad. After Jack finishes his meetings with the LAPD, the couple may head north to the wine country, or may head south to Baja. Their only plan is to see which way the wind blows. The first day back, Regan goes shopping at an upscale new mall in West Hollywood. To her surprise, she runs into Zelda, a woman she''d become friendly with seven years before at a television studio in Burbank, when they were waiting to appear on the game show Puzzling Words. They haven''t seen each other since. Zelda and Regan didn''t win much money, but Zelda made up for it! A year ago an elderly neighbor she barely knew left Zelda eight million dollars. She has been enjoying her newfound wealth but is aware of the need to give back. At a recent fundraiser, she bid on a week''s stay in an old Hollywood Hills estate and was the lucky winner. She''s currently in residence there and invites Regan to a party at the mansion. While Jack attends a business dinner, Regan goes to Zelda''s by herself, unaware that she is being followed. Regan is more than surprised at the run-down condition of the house and grounds. People should be paid to stay here, she thinks. Zelda introduces Regan to a colorful cast of characters, including her old neighbors, friends from her yoga class, a filmmaker, Zelda''s financial adviser, her bookkeeper, and her personal assistant. It''s all good fun. As the guests are leaving, Zelda asks Regan to stay for a cup of tea. They''ve barely sat down to chat when Zelda falls ill. A worried Regan doesn''t want to leave Zelda alone and decides to spend the night at the isolated, aging estate. It''s not long before Zelda asks Regan to investigate people in her life, starting with her father''s new wife, Bobby Jo. The couple said "I do" in the back of a cab at a drive-through chapel in Las Vegas after only three months of togetherness. Has Zelda''s windfall put her in danger? Regan is determined to find out, not knowing that she''s a target herself!

When Regan Reilly returned to the West Coast, where she began her career as a PI, she never imagined that her unsuccessful appearance on a game show seven years earlier would throw her trip totally off course! REGAN REILLY is in Los Angeles with her husband, Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad. After Jack finishes his meetings with the LAPD, the couple may head north to the wine country, or may head south to Baja. Their only plan is to see which way the wind blows. The first day back, Regan goes shopping at an upscale new mall in West Hollywood. To her surprise, she runs into Zelda, a woman she’d become friendly with seven years before at a television studio in Burbank, when they were waiting to appear on the game show Puzzling Words. They haven’t seen each other since. Zelda and Regan didn’t win much money, but Zelda made up for it! A year ago an elderly neighbor she barely knew left Zelda eight million dollars. She has been enjoying her newfound wealth but is aware of the need to give back. At a recent fundraiser, she bid on a week’s stay in an old Hollywood Hills estate and was the lucky winner. She’s currently in residence there and invites Regan to a party at the mansion. While Jack attends a business dinner, Regan goes to Zelda’s by herself, unaware that she is being followed. Regan is more than surprised at the run-down condition of the house and grounds. People should be paid to stay here, she thinks. Zelda introduces Regan to a colorful cast of characters, including her old neighbors, friends from her yoga class, a filmmaker, Zelda’s financial adviser, her bookkeeper, and her personal assistant. It’s all good fun. As the guests are leaving, Zelda asks Regan to stay for a cup of tea. They’ve barely sat down to chat when Zelda falls ill. A worried Regan doesn’t want to leave Zelda alone and decides to spend the night at the isolated, aging estate. It’s not long before Zelda asks Regan to investigate people in her life, starting with her father’s new wife, Bobby Jo. The couple said “I do” in the back of a cab at a drive-through chapel in Las Vegas after only three months of togetherness. Has Zelda’s windfall put her in danger? Regan is determined to find out, not knowing that she’s a target herself!

100 000 dollars : c'est la somme qu'Abigail, une jeune coiffeuse de stars d’Hollywood, vient de voir s'envoler... en même temps que son petit ami ! Elle n'a que quelques jours pour retrouver celui qui s'est emparé de l’argent que lui a légué sa grand-mère. Par malchance, Abigail est née un vendredi 13 et semble décidément attirer le mauvais sort : peu après levol, elle découvre le corps sans vie d'un de ses clients... Par chance, sa meilleure amie est Regan Reilly. Et Regan, désormais installée à New York, n'hésite pas à sauter dans le premier avion pour lui venir en aide. Des villas des Hamptons aux plages select de Malibu, Carol Higgins Clark signe un suspense rocambolesque, avec un humour toujours aussi pétillant !

L.A.-based private detective Regan Reilly gets a call from her best gal pal, urging her to come to Hawaii for one last girls'' weekend before Regan ties the knot with Jack "no relation" Reilly, and so she happily packs her bags. At the Waikiki Waters Playground and Resort, the body of Dorinda Dawes, the hotel''s gossipy PR woman, washes ashore wearing a valuable lei that once belonged to a Hawaiian princess and was stolen from a museum in Honolulu thirty years ago. The resort manager doesn''t believe that Dorinda drowned accidentally and persuades Regan to take on the case. The more she starts digging, the more danger she is in. Can Regan find out what really happened before it''s too late for her and the other vacationers at the Waikiki Waters?

Regan Reilly -- the smart, saucy sleuth featured in all of Carol Higgins Clark''s bestsellers -- is in New York attending a crime conference organized by her celebrity-author mother...and enjoying time with a new beau, Jack "no relation" Reilly. It''s not long before trouble finds her: a family friend, Thomas Pilsner -- the president of the Settlers'' Club on Gramercy Park -- desperately needs help. Two Settlers are dead, diamonds they were donating to the flagging club have vanished, and Thomas is rapidly becoming the prime suspect on all counts. As sharp as ever, Regan sets about solving the mystery of the disappearing diamonds and dead donors in order to save Thomas'' neck...before the real killer finds him.

Now in mass market, New York Times bestselling author Carol Higgins Clark delivers the fourteenth installment in her crowd-pleasing Regan Reilly mystery series, this one set on the Jersey Shore, in a fun story the Today show called “dizzying.” Private investigator Regan Reilly and her husband, Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, plan to spend the weekend at the Jersey shore with her parents. But the weekend gets off to an early start when Regan receives a phone call from her mother Nora asking if she’d hop on a train right away. Hayley Patton is a successful New York City event planner who suspected that her beau, Scott, was cheating and hired her former high school classmate Regan to follow him. When Hayley got the lowdown on Scott’s treachery, she vowed revenge with such vehemence that Regan is worried that Hayley might go too far. Meanwhile, Nora had also just spoken to an agitated high school classmate. Karen Frawley Fulton, who lives in San Diego, called Nora after learning that her mother just sold their home at the Jersey shore and is having a garage sale to end all garage sales. Karen asks Nora to please go to the house and, she hopes, curtail any other outrageous antics her mother probably has in mind. Nora agrees and asks Regan to join her. At the Frawley home Regan is astonished to see Scott’s brand-new fiancée, who quickly makes herself scarce. Once inside the house, Regan becomes increasingly suspicious about why the house was vacated unexpectedly. Turns out, there is a good reason…

Three complete novels from the Regan Reilly mystery series: Zapped, Cursed, and Wrecked. Join Regan Reilly as she takes on NYC during a blackout, returns to LA to help a friend out of a jam, and tries to have a romantic anniversary weekend on Cape Cod with calamitous results in these bestselling novels!

Private Investigator Regan Reilly and her husband, Jack "no relation" Reilly, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, are about to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. They are looking forward to a quiet romantic weekend out of town. Wouldn’t you know their choice of destination provides them with anything but! Regan and Jack had considered going to Bermuda, but instead they decide to spend four days at his parents’ beautiful beachfront home on Cape Cod, a wonderful spot where they’d never been alone. During the summer the house overflowed with Jack’s family, bubbling with activity from morning until night. But to be up there for a weekend in April, just the two of them, sounded like a perfect escape. Arriving at the Cape late at night, Regan and Jack are just in time to experience the beginning of a major storm. The next morning, Cape Cod Bay is quite a sight, churning with whitecaps. The wind is howling ferociously. Sheets of rain are pelting the house. Regan is looking forward to settling in the den with Jack and watching the storm. However, the best laid plans . . . In the bedroom, Regan opens the curtains to find Skip, the Reillys’ young caretaker, pressing his nose against the glass, supposedly checking for leaks. A moment later, Jack arrives home from the market, two gossipy older women who live up the street in tow. A branch crashed through their living room window, and they need a place to stay. When Regan thought things couldn’t get any worse, Skip comes running into the house, distraught that he’d just discovered Adele Hopkins, the woman renting the house next door, in a heap at the bottom of her staircase to the beach. Regan and Jack run back down with him, but huge waves are crashing on the shore. Hopkins is gone, presumably swept out to sea. Who was Adele Hopkins? No one knows. The sixty-ish loner, who moved in five months ago, shunned her neighbors. Even her landlords, friends of the Reillys, have no idea how to locate her next of kin. Discovered in her dining room are stacks of apology cards she’d not yet sent and bags of decorative pillows that are embroidered with the saying grudge me, grudge me not. Regan and Jack begin an investigation to help their friends track down Hopkins’s family. They start by interviewing two young women who own the shop where Adele had bought the pillows. Pippy and Ellen opened Pillow Talk after they both lost their jobs. When a newspaper article revealing the terrible way the women had been treated by their former employers was posted on the Internet, business took off, they started to become well-known, and the Pillow Talk website became a place for people who had had similar experiences to vent their feelings. Pippy and Ellen just received an anonymous e-mail from someone who spews venom about her former rowing coach—Adele Hopkins. Could she be the same Adele Hopkins? Regan and Jack’s search for clues to this mysterious woman’s identity makes for an anniversary weekend they’ll never forget!

In the picturesque village of Branscombe, New Hampshire, the townsfolk are preparing for the annual Festival of Joy. With preparations in full swing, a group of employees at the local market, recently cheated out of their Christmas bonus by their boss''s new wife, learn that they have won $180 million in the lottery. On the advice of a pair of crooks masquerading as financial advisers, one of their co-workers, Duncan, decided at the last minute not to play. He goes missing and the next day his girlfriend Flower also disappears. A second winning lottery ticket was purchased in the next town but the winner hasn''t come forward. Could Duncan have secretly bought it? The Clarks'' endearing heroes - Alvirah Meehan, the amateur sleuth, and private investigator Regan Reilly - have arrived in Branscombe for the festival. Alvirah and Regan are just the people to find out what is amiss. As they dig beneath the surface, they find that life in Branscombe is not as tranquil as it appears. So much for an old-fashioned weekend in the country ...

Avec ces romans écrits à quatre mains, Mary Higgins Clark et sa fille Carol, reines du suspense, de l'humour et du charme, offrent à leurs fans un cadeau de premier choix. Elles n'y ont pas conjugué seulement leurs talents, mais aussi leurs héroïnes : Alvirah Meehan et Regan Reilly. Dans Trois jours avant Noël, elles font connaissance, au moment où Regan Reilly apprend l'enlèvement de son père. Les ravisseurs demandent un million de dollars... Dans Le Voleur de Noël, une mystérieuse disparition risque de gâcher la tradition du sapin de Noël au pied du Rockefeller Center. À moins qu'avant les douze coups de minuit, Regan Reilly et Alvirah Meehan ne démasquent le coupable...

Private Investigator Regan Reilly moved from Los Angeles to New York City when she married her husband, Jack "no relation" Reilly, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad. To help a friend she ends up taking on a case that calls her back to her old stomping ground... Cursed opens on a cold and gray January morning. Sleet and snow are swirling as Regan arrives at a warehouse in Long Island City with a trunk full of her old case files from Los Angeles. After carting all her boxes into a storage unit, she heads back out into the snow, and her cell phone rings. Abigail Feeney, a young woman who had lived across the hall from Regan in an apartment complex in the Hollywood Hills, is on the line. Abigail believes her life has been cursed since birth. She was born on Friday the 13th of January, and her parents gave her a name with 13 letters. A hairdresser on movie sets, Abigail was recently injured at work when a piece of scaffolding fell and knocked her over, and her arm was broken in two places. But that isn''t why she is calling. "Regan!" she exclaims. "The ''no good bum'' has been spotted in town. I desperately need the money he owes me. Can you please come out here and help me find him?" Regan immediately knows the identity of the "no good bum." From her L.A. apartment, Regan had often seen Abigail''s ex, Cody Castle, sitting by the pool, bent over his cell phone, text messaging nonstop. Before he disappeared three months ago, he borrowed $100,000 from Abigail. He promised to pay her back in three months. "Find him?" Regan asks. "Yes! My grandmother is flying here tomorrow. There''s a condo she wants to buy me. But we need that money. She can''t find out I don''t have it. Regan, can''t you spend a few days with me?" If Regan weren''t freezing, she might have made an excuse. But Jack was away at a seminar, Regan had never liked the "no good bum," and Abigail had brought her chicken soup when she''d had the flu last winter. Within hours Regan is on a flight to Los Angeles where her adventure with Abigail will take her from the beaches of Malibu, to the mountains north of the city, to the renovated lofts of downtown L.A. Regan starts to feel Abigail''s curse is contagious as she encounters a cast of characters who aren''t always welcoming. Some are downright dangerous. And there''s one who is the most dangerous of all...

Following the smash "New York Times" bestsellers "Hitched" and "Laced," Clark brings newlyweds Regan and Jack Reilly back to their New York City home just as a citywide blackout strikes.

A "solidly entertaining" mystery featuring a private investigator sleuthing an art heist in Aspen is "always fun" ( Booklist ). It''s Christmas in Aspen and P.I. Regan Reilly is vacationing with her parents. And hoping to meet an unmarried man. Soon, however, all thoughts of romance turn to sleuthing when million-dollar paintings start disappearing, along with an old friend of Regan''s—who happens to be an ex-con. Regan is sure he''s innocent, but proving it is going to be an uphill battle. The snow is falling, the plot is thickening, and the danger is closing in on Regan. With all the assorted hijinks, adventures, false alarms, and—yes—plain old silliness, can she get this case tied up in a nice, neat bow in time to enjoy the rest of her holiday? "[A] quintessential beach book." — Publishers Weekly

A haunted Irish castle, jewel thieves and a hotel fire all await Regan and Jack on their honeymoon.

Tijdens de maidentrip van een nieuw cruiseschip gaat er van alles mis.

Regan''s latest adventure is a thrilling caper through New York City during the week before her wedding--a tale filled with mystery, mayhem, and marriage.

America''s queen of suspense, Mary Higgins Clark, joins forces with her daughter, Carol, bestselling author off the Regan Reilly mysteries, for this fast-paced novel set on a holiday mystery cruise.

Un árbol será cortado en Vermont, para luego engalanar el Rockefeller Center en Navidad. Pero el árbol elegido contiene un valioso y viejo enigma que involucra a ladrones, justicieros y millonarios (casadellibro).

Una atmósfera digna de Agatha Christie, resuelta con talento y humor. En vísperas de la celebración del centenario de su fundación, el "Club de los Colonizadores" atraviesa por momentos difíciles. La venerable y achacosa institución, ubicada en el elegante Gramercy Park neoyorquino se ha visto afectada por una serie de sucesos tan misteriosos como siniestros: entre ellos las repentinas muertes de dos de sus miembros más antiguos, acompañadas por la desaparición de una valiosa colección de diamantes que habían prometido donar al club para evitar que cerrara sus puertas. ¿ Quién mejor que Regan Reilly, la inteligente y desenfadada detective privada, que asiste en Nueva York a una convención de escritores de novela negra, podría dilucidar el enigma de las sospechosas muertes y los diamantes desparecidos? " Como otros grandes escritores de novelas policíacas, de Arthur Conan Doyle a Agatha Christie y Dorothy Sayers, el estilo de Carol Higgins Clark es elegante, claro y conciso. Los personajes que crea son ingeniosos y cautivadores y la trama y el ritmo de sus novelas alcanzan la perfección. Los ojos de diamante combina lo mejor de la novela negra clásica con la chispa y el pulso de un thriller contemporáneo." Nelson de Mille