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It may be August, but we're all well aware that Christmas is coming and it waits for no one! In the season of hot, we encourage you to cool down with this book that does double-duty: two books in one by the mother/daughter author team of Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter Carol. And once you read it, you can buy it for all your reading pals and start on your Christmas shopping! If you've read MHC before, each of these are breezy reads that are in keeping with her talents of suspense and characteristic twists and turns that keep you thinking, even if you have read all her books.
Regan Reilly and her comrades always find that trouble is lurking not so far away, and as they tumble through New York (some more literally than others-watch out for the rug, Nora!) and beyond (Stowe, Vermont, New Jersey...) you'll go with them on another adventure that will have you turning red as a lobster in the sun because you won't be able to put this down-not even to reapply sunblock (but we think that would be a good idea too.) The fact that these are Christmas books and it is August should not phase you because if you like a good mystery, these are it. And besides, there's not another MHC coming out until next spring we believe, and we want to make sure we are feeding you the proper mysteries! We're not going to get into specifics but you know if it's by Mary Higgins Clark, it is well-written, well-developed, and highly entertaining.
Whom You Know Highly Recommends Deck the Halls and The Christmas Thief.
As far as mysteries go, nobody does it better!
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From beloved storytellers Mary Higgins Clark, America's Queen of Suspense, and her daughter, bestselling author Carol Higgins Clark, two favorite suspense novels filled with holiday cheer.
Deck the Halls (first published in 2000) was the mother-daughter duo's first collaborative effort, a brilliant story of high-stakes intrigue and detection played out against a holiday setting. Christmas is only three days away when Regan Reilly, the dynamic young sleuth featured in the novels of Carol Higgins Clark, accidentally meets Alvirah Meehan, Mary Higgins Clark's sharp-witted lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, at a New Jersey dentist's office. When a call comes through on Regan's cell phone notifying her that her father and his driver, Rosita Gonzalez, are being held for $1,000,000 ransom, Alvirah insists that Regan allow her to lend a hand in gaining their release. Complicating the situation is the fact that Regan's mother, the famous mystery writer Nora Regan Reilly, has just been hospitalized with a broken leg, and a brutal winter storm is bearing down on them all. Regan must comfort her mother while trying to meet the harsh demands of her father's kidnappers, who are not just rank amateurs but also laughably inept -- making them all the more dangerous and unpredictable.
In The Christmas Thief (2004), Alvirah and Regan team up again to investigate another kind of kidnapping. When an eighty-foot blue spruce is chosen to spend the holidays as Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree, the folks who picked the tree have no idea that attached to one of its branches is a flask chock-full of priceless diamonds that Packy Noonan, a scam artist just releasedfrom prison, had hidden there over twelve years ago. When an excited Packy breaks his parole and heads to Stowe, Vermont, to reclaim his loot, he discovers that his special tree will be heading to New York City the next morning, so he and his bumbling crew have to act fast. Meanwhile Alvirah Meehan and Regan Reilly happen to be on a weekend trip to Stowe with their families when they learn that the tree -- and Alvirah's friend Opal, who won the lottery, but lost all her winnings in Packy's scam -- has gone missing.
With two novels filled with twists and turns, intrigue and danger, as well as a hearty dose of good cheer, Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark offer stories that are as breathlessly suspenseful as they are heartwarming Christmas classics for many holiday seasons to come.
