Лучшие книги Кэрол Хиггинс Кларк

Частная сыщица Риган Рейли соглашается слетать со своей лучшей подругой на Гавайи, чтобы провести уик-энд в престижном курортном комплексе "Вайкики Вотерс". Но ей не удается убежать от работы: ранним утром на пустынном пляже находят труп женщины, работавшей в отеле фотокорреспондентом. На ней дорогое гавайское ожерелье из раковин, похищенное тридцать лет назад из местного музея. Полиция склонна считать это несчастным случаем. Однако Риган и управляющий Уилл Браун в этом далеко не уверены. Слишком противоречивой была личность погибшей, всего три месяца как появившейся на Гавайях и уже успевшей обзавестись репутацией несносной дамы,…

Частная сыщица Риган Рейли и ее новоиспеченный муж Джон, глава подразделения по особо важным делам полицейского управления Нью-Йорка, отправляются в свадебное путешествие в Ирландию. Они приезжают в древний замок Хеннесси, где, согласно легенде, обитает призрак. По удивительному стечению обстоятельств, это дух их однофамилицы, кружевницы Мэй Рейли, которая сплела для хозяина замка красивейшую кружевную скатерть, но не получила обещанного вознаграждения. Прежде чем Риган и Джон успевают увидеть это дивное произведение искусства, оно исчезает. Кто же, как не они, сможет его найти?

Сыщица Риган Рейли и ее жених Дже - глава подразделения по особо важным делам нью-йоркской полиции - готовятся к свадьбе. Риган заказала себе великолепное подвенечное платье у двух молодых модельеров в Манхэттене. Придя в салон за своим нарядом, Риган обнаруживает, что помещение взломано, модельеры связаны, а платья четырех апрельских невест исчезли, включая и то, что было сшито для Риган. Клочки пятого платья валяются на полу. Хотя до ее свадьбы остается всего неделя, Риган берется раскрыть дело и в результате знакомится с разношерстной компанией женихов и невест, которые жаждут - или не жаждут - стать супругами

23 апреля 1982 года студентка одного из колледжей Оксфорда спешила на вокзал, в предвкушении лондонских каникул... С того дня Атену Пополус никто уже больше не видел. И лишь спустя десять лет ее останки будут обнаружены на территории поместья, обитатели которого хранили зловещую тайну исчезновения Атены...

До Рождества осталось всего несколько дней. Брукс Стерлинг вот уже сорок шесть лет (по земным меркам) томится в приемной Небесной канцелярии, ожидая решения своей загробной участи. Наконец наступает заветный день, и небесные чиновники сообщают Стерлингу, что он прожил свою жизнь ни шатко ни валко, поэтому не достоин пропуска в рай. Однако есть шанс исправиться… И предлагают ему поучаствовать в эксперименте – вернуться на землю и кому-нибудь помочь. Если он справится со своей миссией, то Небесный Совет пересмотрит свое решение и наградой станет вечное блаженство. Стерлинг соглашается…

In the picturesque village of Branscombe, New Hampshire, the townsfolk are all pitching in to prepare for the first (and many hope annual) Festival of Joy. The night before the festival begins, a group of employees at the local market learn that they have won $160 million in the lottery. One of their co-workers, Duncan, decided at the last minute, on the advice of a pair of crooks masquerading as financial advisers, not to play. Then he goes missing. 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. They 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. This fast-paced holiday caper will keep you dashing through the pages!

Частный детектив Риган Рейли приехала на свадьбу своей школьной подруги, не подозревая, что подвергает свою жизнь серьезной опасности. На сей раз она взяла под защиту создателя нервущихся колготок Ричарда Блоссома. Но вычислить злоумышленников было не так-то просто - слишком многим грозило банкротством его невинное изобретение.

A collection of 16 original stories from today's foremost fiction writers--including Ed McBain, Jonathan Kellerman, Sara Paretsky, Mary Higgins Clark, Elmore Leonard, James Crumley, John Gardner, Anne Perry, Donna Tartt, Shel Silverstein, Bobbie Ann Mason, Carol Higgins Clark, William J. Caunitz, Michael Malone, and Faye Kellerman--each a brilliant mystery exploring that peculiar area that lies between love and death.

Частный детектив Риган Гейли приехала в Аспен покататься на лыжах и оказалась участницей драматических событий, потрясших тихий заснеженный городок. Кража ценных картин, похищения людей, покушение на убийство - вот неполный перечень преступлений, пресечь которые ей удалось, рискуя собственной жизнью.

Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, teams up with private investigator Regan Reilly to solve another Christmas mystery. In Deck the Halls, they rescued Regan's kidnapped father.

This time they get in the middle of a case involving a beautiful eighty-foot blue spruce that has been chosen to spend the holidays as Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree. The folks who picked the tree don't have a clue that attached to one of its branches is a flask chock-full of priceless diamonds that Packy Noonan, a scam artist just released from prison, had hidden there over twelve years ago. An excited Packy breaks his parole and heads to Stowe, Vermont, to reclaim his loot. Once there, he is horrified to discover that his special tree will be heading to New York City the next morning. With a bumbling crew consisting of Jo-Jo, Benny, and an unsuccessful poet, Milo, he knows he has to act fast. What Packy does not know is that Alvirah and Regan are on a weekend trip to stowe with Alvirah's husband, Willy; Regan's fiance, Jack; Regan's parents, Luke and Nora; and Alvirah's friend Opal, a lottery winner who lost all her winnings in Packy's scam. On Monday morning when they're suppose to head home, they learn that the tree is missing, Packy Noonan may be in the vicinity, and Opal has disappeared.

Regan Reilly is back in another “thrilling” tale with “unexpected plot twists and Clark’s trademark humor” (The Daily Beast).

When Detective Regan Reilly sets off for her tenth reunion at Quiltier College—an all-women’s college in Northern Massachusetts—she is looking forward to reconnecting with old friends and reminiscing. She doesn’t expect to be working. But things don’t always turn out as planned.

On her way to the reunion, Regan stops at her favorite diner, Dot and Don’s, and discovers the owners of the restaurant bound up in the cellar, the cash register empty. She helps the police investigate the break-in.

Later the same day, two 102-year-old Quiltier alumni, who returned for their eightieth reunion, leave the infirmary where they were assigned rooms. When they have not returned by 11:30 p.m. alumni take part in a Nature Night Search to find the missing women, led by Regan, the campus security team, and the local police.

And there is the mystery of who from Regan’s graduating class gave an anonymous donation of $1 million to the school. And where did she get the money?

So much for a quiet reunion.

The quirky, colorful personalities who work at the college and the local television studio, as well as the Quiltier grads and others who and find their way to the campus keep the story light as the mysteries pile up. Cameo appearances by Regan’s husband—Detective Jack Reilly, Head of the NYPD major case squad—and her parents—Nora Reilly the famous mystery writer and Luke Reilly, the owner of several funeral homes in New Jersey—will appeal to Carol’s fans. The unusual mix of characters and unexpected events will keep readers turning the pages of this fast-paced and fun mystery.

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…

A Week in The Hamptons can be Murder Sleuth Regan Reilly is hired as a bodyguard for singer Brigid O'Neill, a rising country star who has been receiving threatening "love notes." Brigid also possesses a "magical" Irish fiddle said to be cursed-whoever takes it out of Ireland will have an accident or face death. Still, Brigid brings it to the Hamptons, where her band will perform at a Fourth of July concert. Chappy Tinka, heir to a thumbtack fortune, and his ditzy wife, Bettina, are their hosts. Regan joins them at "Chappy's Compound," an oceanfront estate where they encounter Bettina's guru Peace Man, Chappy's bumbling sidekick Duke, a feng shui specialist obsessed with rearranging furniture-and a party guest found floating face-down in the pool. Is the curse of the fiddle real? Is there a murderer in the house? As the concert nears, the menace to Brigid grows, and Regan must discover the truth before it's too late...

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.

In The Bestselling Tradition Of The Christmas Thief . . . A Holiday Mystery At Sea

America's Queen of Suspense -- Mary Higgins Clark -- joins forces with her daughter Carol -- bestselling author of the Regan Reilly mysteries -- in this fast-paced novel set on a special holiday cruise that sets sail from Miami the day after Christmas.

Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth; recently "hitched" private detective Regan Reilly; and their husbands Willy and Jack, are guests on the Royal Mermaid's maiden voyage, the Santa Cruise. The cruise is Commodore Randolph Weed's gift to a select group of people who in the last year made the world a better place. What he doesn't know is that his ne'er-do-well nephew, Eric, has smuggled two escaping criminals on board. As the Royal Mermaid sails through troubled waters, Alvirah and Regan uncover clues that lead them to the dangerous men who were not on the original guest list!

Filled with suspense and humor, Santa Cruise is a holiday mystery you won't want to miss. Join the Clarks' as they bring this unpredictable voyage to a hair-raising and heartwarming conclusion and ring in the New Year.

Book Description Regan Reilly and her best friend, Kit, are on vacation in Honolulu, intent on having a Hawaiian adventure. They won't be disappointed! When we last saw L.A.-based private detective Regan Reilly, she'd recently become

In their first acclaimed work of collaboration, Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, and her daughter, bestselling author Carol Higgins Clark, create an exciting and entertaining story of a holiday kidnapping.

Three days before Christmas, Regan Reilly, the dynamic young sleuth featured in the novels of Carol Higgins Clark, accidentally meets Alvirah Meehan, Mary Higgins Clark's famous lottery winner and amateur detective, at a New Jersey dentist's office. That's where it all begins.

While Regan's mother, Nora, the famous mystery writer, is in the hospital with a broken leg, her husband, Luke, and his chauffeur, Rosita, are kidnapped and held for a million-dollar ransom. Together, Regan and Alvirah track the case as the inept yet dangerous kidnappers make their demands known. Meanwhile, Luke and Rosita are held captive on a houseboat on the Hudson River and a fierce winter storm is gathering force.

A true Christmas classic, Deck The Halls blends suspense with poignancy, laugh-out-loud humor, and all-around holiday cheer.

PI Regan Reilly moved from Los Angeles to New York City when she married Jack “no relation†Reilly, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad. To help a friend, Regan takes on a case that takes her back to her old stomping grounds. . . .
On a snowy day in New York City, PI Regan Reilly gets an urgent call from her former neighbor, Abigail Feeney. A Hollywood hairdresser, Abigail believes her life has been cursed since the day she was born— Friday the 13th.

Always unlucky in love, Abigail now needs Reganâ€s help in tracking down an ex-boyfriend who was just spotted in downtown Los Angeles—a “nogood bum†who borrowed $100,000 from her three months ago, then promptly disappeared. Abigail desperately needs to get that money back, money given to her by her grandmother who is heading to L.A. Grandma Feeney, no shrinking violet, has plans to buy an old friendâ€s condo for Abigail and will need that hard-earned money to make the deal.

With hubby Jack away, the weather in New York miserable, and the guiltprovoking memory that Abigail had brought her chicken soup when she was sick, Regan agrees to hop a plane. Before long, the hunt for Abigailâ€s ex takes some dangerous turns. . . . But when Abigail becomes a suspect in a murder investigation, Regan begins to wonder if the curse is real—and possibly contagious!

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 Bestselling Tradition Of The Christmas Thief . . . A Holiday Mystery At Sea America's Queen of Suspense -- Mary Higgins Clark -- joins forces with her daughter Carol -- bestselling author of the Regan Reilly mysteries -- in this fast-paced novel set on a special holiday cruise that sets sail from Miami the day after Christmas. Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth; recently "hitched" private detective Regan Reilly; and their husbands Willy and Jack, are guests on the Royal Mermaid's maiden voyage, the Santa Cruise. The cruise is Commodore Randolph Weed's gift to a select group of people who in the last year made the world a better place. What he doesn't know is that his ne'er-do-well nephew, Eric, has smuggled two escaping criminals on board. As the Royal Mermaid sails through troubled waters, Alvirah and Regan uncover clues that lead them to the dangerous men who were not on the original guest list! Filled with suspense and humor, Santa Cruise is a holiday mystery you won't want to miss. Join the Clarks' as they bring this unpredictable voyage to a hair-raising and heartwarming conclusion and ring in the New Year.