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Tomorrow, April 7th, my mother and I both have new books out.  Hers is called JUST TAKE MY HEART, and mine is CURSED.  You can read the first chapter of CURSED right here and for  information about my mother's book, you can go to www.MaryHigginsClark.com.

In CURSED I decided to have Regan head back to Los Angeles, to help out a former neighbor, who believes she is cursed. You can read a description of the book below.  I'm so happy that once again my mother and I will be going on book tour together.  As always, it's great to meet our readers at the signings.  If you click on the schedule section, you can see where we'll be. I will be updating it as appearances are added.

Tomorrow morning we start with an appearance on Imus In The Morning. We will be on at approximately 7:30 AM Eastern Time. In New York, he is on 770 AM - WABC. He can be seen on RFD television.

Cheers!
Carol Higgins Clark
  

CURSED

"Clark's rambunctious 12th Regan Reilly mystery....Clark's bubbly humor makes this a great vacation read for fans of mystery lite who love a Hollywood twist."
Pubishers Weekly

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 brings her back to her old stomping ground.

CURSED opens on a col 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 movies sets, Abigail was recently injured at work when a piece of scaffolding fell and knocked her over.  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 out 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 most dangerous of all.... 

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.