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Title: Fleeced : A Regan Reilly Mystery by Carol Higgins Clark ISBN: 0-7434-1231-1 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.14 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent mystery
Comment: Los Angeles private investigator Regan Reilly is in New York City for several reasons. She's going to visit her parents and also attend the crime convention her mother has put together. She looks forward to seeing her significant other Jack Reilly, the head of the Big Apple's Major Case Squad. Unfortunately Megan has little time to visit with anyone because her friend Thomas Pilsner needs her in her official capacity.
Thomas is president of the Setler's Club, a place where people who are free thinkers congregate, exchange new ideas and have fun. The club is in decline but two of its' members, Nat and Dan are planning to contribute four diamonds worth four million dollars to revitalize the club. Both die before they can give their gift. Thomas wants Megan to find the missing donation before the Setler's Club becomes history. Other people are searching for the diamonds including two very dangerous grifters who will use any means at their disposal to get what they want.
The fifth installment in the Megan Reilly mystery series is a humorous private detective novel starring a heroine who keeps the audience hopping with her many exploits. The support cast is filled with quirky eccentric characters that add a vein of humor to the story line. Carol Higgins Clark, like her mother Mary Higgins Clark, is a dynamite storyteller who excels at her craft.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 4
Summary: Not so wild, definitely woolly and fun!
Comment: Higgins, daughter of suspense master Mary Higgins Clark, serves up another frothy concoction, as delicious and memorable as a puff pastry. Regan Reilly, Clark's heroine, is a Los Angeles-based private investigator. While visiting her mother Nora, a famous novelist (of course), Regan is asked to investigate a murder in a once-grand private club, located along Gramercy Park.
The club definitely needs help: its premier tenants are a struggling school for butlers and a woman who serves up parties for singles to mingle. When Ned dies, club manager Jack mourns not only the loss of a friend, but also the four diamonds Ned has bequeathed to the club -- enough to restore its former glory. Ned has also bequeathed two enormous sheep, who keep getting in the way of everybody trying to solve the crime.
This mystery is not a whodunit, but rather a "when-will-the-detective-figure-it-out." We readers know where the stones are hidden. We get a glimpse of each character's story along the way. Regan doesn't so much detect as stir things up, and the ending is satisfactory as all the strands come together in a satisfying little ball.
Fleeced succeeds by not trying to be more than it is: a few hours of pure escape -- the perfect airplane book. Moving along, you don't ask questions like, "How can Regan work in New York if she has a California PI license?" or, "How come the New York cops open their files to Regan just for the asking -- even if her boyfriend is one of their own?" After all, it doesn't really matter. You don't want to know how many calories lurk in that chocolate éclair either. Just keep an eye on those sheep.
Rating: 4
Summary: A READING SPICED WITH DASHES OF DANGER
Comment: Carol Higgins Clark gives authentic voice to Regan Reilly, an intelligent, quick, young woman with a penchant for solving crimes. Regan is in the Big Apple for a crime conference put together by her celebrity author mother when she is contacted by a friend, Thomas Pilsner, who desperately needs help.
Pilsner is president of the Settler's Club on Gramercy Park. Two members of the club who had promised to salvage the failing club with healthy monetary gifts are found dead. Regan to the rescue.
She casts her inquiring eyes on other tenants in the building, such as Lydia Sevatura who runs a dating service from her apartment, and her butler, Maldwin Feckles who's a bit of an entrepreneur in his own right having just opened a butlering school.
Calling on boyfriend and mystery writing mom for help Regan does, of course, solve the mystery. Nonetheless, readers are kept guessing until the last pages.
Fleeced, very much like protagonist Regan Reilly, is both urban and urbane - an entertainment spiced with outre characters and dashes of danger.
- Gail Cooke
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Title: Twanged by Carol Higgins Clark ISBN: 0446605360 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Iced by Carol Higgins Clark ISBN: 0446601985 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Snagged by Carol Higgins Clark ISBN: 0446600768 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Decked:A Regan Reilly Mystery by Carol Higgins Clark ISBN: 0446364703 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Second Time Around : A Novel by Mary Higgins Clark ISBN: 0743206061 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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