Thanks for signing on.  It's that time of year when I have a new book out and I'm going around doing signings and appearances.  My mother, Mary Higgins Clark, also has a new book and we do the tour together which we really enjoy.  My new one is ZAPPED and hers is WHERE ARE YOU NOW?  I have posted our schedule.  If we are going to be in your town, it'd be great to meet you.  We've done a couple of signings already and it's always fun to visit with and get feedback from our readers.  We know there are a lot of books out there to choose from and are most grateful to those people who enjoy our work.   We also love hearing feedback about our characters!   After spending so much time at the computer writing, it's nice to get out!

I'm writing a newsletter so if you'd like to sign up for it, you can on this page.  I'll send out notices about appearances and new books.  I also will post pictures from our tour on the web site.

Best wishes to you all.  Hope you're enjoying the spring.  It's finally arriving in New York City!

Cheers,
Carol Higgins Clark
  

P.S. Following are descriptions of my two latest books:

HITCHED
The date is Saturday, April 2nd.  Five April brides discover their wedding dresses have been stolen.  One of the brides is private investigator Regan Reilly.  Her wedding is in seven days.

Regan Reilly and her fiance, Jack "no relation" Reilly - head of the NYPD Major Case Squad - are getting married!  Regan had the perfect dress made by two young designers on Manhattan's Lower East Side.  Arriving at the bridal salon to pick up her gown, Regan discovers the shop has been broken into, the designers bound and gagged, and wedding dresses for four of the April brides (her dress included) are missing.  A fifth dress is in shreds on the floor.  Even though it's a week before her wedding, Regan gets on the case, and in the process she meets an unusual mix of brides and grooms-to-be, or -- perhaps "not-to-be."

Over at One Police Plaza, Regan's bridgegroom, Jack, is trying to solve a perplexing series of bank robberies.  The robber, nicknamed "The Drip" by the NYPD because he always strikes during rainstorms, has been eluding the police for months.  Jack is determined to crack the case before his upcoming nuptials.

HITCHED takes readers from the streets of New York City, to the casinos of Atlantic City, and finally to that most popular wedding spot -- the one and only Las Vegas.  It's a tale of five April brides and the trials and tribulations they face planning their weddings.

And LACED --

A haunted castle, a pair of international jewel thieves, and a hotel fire -- so begins Regan and Jack Reilly's honeymoon in Ireland.

Regan and Jack have just gotten hitched!  They've headed to Hennessy Castle, a romantic spot in western Ireland -  seemingly the perfect place to escape the world and the criminals they deal with daily - to begin their lives together.  But Hennessy Castle is hardly relaxing!

Their first afternoon in Ireland, Regan and Jack go out for a jog, stopping at an old graveyard at the edge of town.  The first tombstone they see is marked REILLY.  Turns out May Reilly, who died in 1822, was a talented lacemaker who made an exquisite tablecloth for a banquet at Hennessy Castle but was never paid.  Legend has it that May has haunted the castle ever since.

Awakened in the middle of the night, Regan spots a mysterious woman on the back lawn of the castle.  At the sound of Jack's voice, Regan turns her head for a moment.  When she turns back, the woman is gone.  A moment later, the hotel's fire alarm goes off.

In the ensuing melee, Regan and Jack meet a young American Irish couple, Sheila and Brian O'Shea, who have started a business selling Irish memorabilia - but on this trip to Ireland their "business" is to pick up paintings they've commissioned from a superstitious amateur artist who doesn't realize the value of her work.  The last thing these two online entrepreneurs want is for Regan and Jack to figure out what they're up to.

The following morning, May Reilly's famous tablecloth is discovered missing from the memorabilia room at the castle, and a note has been left for Jack by an elderly couple who checked out immediately after the fire.  The "elderly" couple is, in fact, two international jewel thieves in disguise, who refer to themselves as "Jane and John Doe."  Taunting Jack, who was been on their trail for more than a year, they claim responsibility for the theft of May Reilly's tablecloth, knowing full well that Jack won't be able to enjoy his honeymoon when he finds out they were right under his nose and may still be in Ireland.

With the help of Regan's Irish cousin - Galway resident Gerard Reilly - Regan and Jack hunt for the thieves who have eluded law enforcement for so long.  Their search takes as many twists and turns as the winding country roads of the Emerald Isle, as they travel from tiny villages to the crowded pubs of Galway and back to Hennessy Castle -  where May Reilly is not resting in her grave!

Carol Higgins Clark’s 10th suspense novel, "Laced": A Regan Reilly Mystery, was published by Scribner in April, 2007.

She is the author of nine previous bestselling Regan Reilly mysteries, "Decked", nominated as Best First Novel for both the Agatha and Anthony Awards, "Snagged", "Iced" and "Twanged", published by Warner Books and "Fleeced", 'Jinxed", "Popped", "Burned" and "Hitched", published by Scribner.

She is the daughter of America's # 1 bestselling suspense writer, Mary Higgins Clark. They have co-authored four bestselling holiday suspense novels, "Deck the Halls" (Simon & Schuster/Scribner 2000), "He Sees You When You’re  Sleeping", (Simon & Schuster/Scribner 2001), "The Christmas Thief" (Simon & Schuster/Scribner 2004)
and "Santa Cruise" (Simon &  Schuster/Scribner  2006).

Carol Higgins Clark, jointly with Mary Higgins Clark, received the University of Scranton's Distinguished Author Award in September 2000.

She has recorded several works by Mary Higgins Clark, including the novels, "The Cradle Will Fall", "A Cry in the Night", "All Through the Night" and the stories, "Death on the Cape", "That's the Ticket", "Voices in the Coal Bin" and "The Body in the Closet". She has also recorded her own novels, "Snagged", "Iced", "Twanged", "Fleeced", "Jinxed", "Popped", "Burned", "Hitched" and "Laced".  She received AudioFile’s Earphones Award of Excellence for her reading of "Jinxed".  She has also recorded the four holiday suspense novels co-authored with Mary Higgins Clark.

Born in New York, Carol Higgins Clark obtained her B.A. from Mt. Holyoke College. She then studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. She starred in "Who Killed Amy Lang?", a mini-mystery aired on "Good Morning, America" and performed in New York's Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall) in Wendy Wasserstein's play, "Uncommon Women and Others",  produced as part of the 21st Century Playwrights Festival.  She was the lead in the film, "A Cry in the Night", based on the novel by Mary Higgins Clark. The film was shown at the Cannes TV Festival and the Montreal Film Festival and nationally on U.S. television.

Carol Higgins Clark lives in New York City.