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Carol Higgins Clark is the author of nine previous bestselling Regan Reilly mysteries. She is coauthor, along with her mother, Mary Higgins Clark, of a bestselling holiday mystery series. Also an actress, Carol Higgins Clark studied at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and has recorded several of her mother's works as well as her own novels. She received AudioFile's Earphones Award of Excellence for her reading of Jinxed. She lives in New York City.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars disappointment, June 10, 2008

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This review is from: Zapped (Regan Reilly Mysteries, No. 11) (Hardcover)

I'm a fan of this series and look forward to a nice cozy when the newest Regan books come out. They're usually funny whodunits; this one wasn't either. I felt like it spent more time on all of the different "bad guy" plots than on the main characters. It just didn't live up to the other Regan books at all.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars O stars, May 23, 2008

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This review is from: Zapped (Regan Reilly Mysteries, No. 11) (Hardcover)

This is bad writing. Being a New yorker myself, I had to walk home that day, so I was pretty disappointed about the inaccuracies in the plot. There was no way to call anyone on the phone that day. The only cell phone up was Verizon.
Anyway, the book is a complete waste of time; I was sick, so I had plenty of time to kill, otherwise I wouldn't have waisted a single minute on it. I hope that this 'writer' gets a different job.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars My first and last, September 9, 2008

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This review is from: Zapped (Regan Reilly Mysteries, No. 11) (Hardcover)

This was the first Carol Higgins Clark book that I have read and I'm afraid that it will be my last. Admittedly this book is a quick read so you don't waste too much time on it, but I suspect that it was very quickly written too.
The tone of the writing suggest a mildy talented teenager is writing the book. There are far too many characters who all seem to 'coincidentaly' wind up involved in the same farce. New York comes across as a small town, not a huge city!
The character names sometimes stretch the powers of belief - Mr Blankbucks and Huckleberry Darling??
Do yourself a favour and find something else to spend a couple of hours reading - even a local newspaper will have more entertainment value.

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1.0 out of 5 stars awful
This book was awful. The plot and characters were naive and simplistic. I can't believe adults found it anything but banal and boring.

Published 17 days ago by mysterylover

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible Condition
I received this book and it looks like it was copied, as the top of the pages are smaller than the bottom of the pages, strangest thing I have ever seen. Read more

Published 19 days ago by Joan Woelfel

1.0 out of 5 stars Complete garbage
Sorry for the bad words but this is one of the worst books I've ever read! Boring, very primitive and predictable. I'm so disappointed.

Published 5 months ago by Natasha Radovsky

2.0 out of 5 stars Juvenile, pedestrian. Rest of series has GOT to better this
This is the first Regan Reilly "mystery" I have read, and will probably be the last. Your average junior high reader might find this somewhat enjoyable, but for me it was a slog... Read more

Published 16 months ago by A. Debban

1.0 out of 5 stars Publisher's Error
There are so many good mystery writers. Carol Higgins Clark is not one of them. I was mystfied how the publisher could have released this book. Read more

Published 17 months ago by Ivy

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful
Regan and Jack Reilly return home from a weekend in Cape Cod where they celebrated Jack's father's birthday, wanting nothing more than to enjoy a quiet dinner and a relaxing... Read more

Published 20 months ago by Bookreporter

1.0 out of 5 stars Who told her?
I have listened to many hundreds of audio books. The only thing worse than worse than the writing in this book, is the reading by the author. Read more

Published on September 10, 2009 by sooz44

1.0 out of 5 stars Why Do They Do It?
Why do so many authors insist on doing their own audiobooks? After 20 minutes of trying to listen to the first CD I had to give up. While Ms. Read more

Published on June 22, 2009 by C. J. Vaughan

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed
Zapped is a huge let down. I was looking forward to this latest installment. It is a very quick read, but there are very few suprises here. Read more

Published on June 5, 2009 by imokay!

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect beach reading
This book was loads of fun to read. A zany, madcap series of misadventures set in New York during the almost 24-hour blackout of a few years ago. Read more

Published on May 26, 2009 by Mary H. Lesser

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