Mobbed

September 1, 2011

In this 14th installment of Clark's (www.carolhigginsclark.com) Regan Reilly mystery series, after Wrecked (2010)--also available from Recorded Books/S. & S. Audio--PI Regan and her famous-author mother, Nora, become concerned when they are asked to attend a garage sale and discover mysteriously for sale all of the possessions of missing actress Cleo Paradise. Regan has just wrapped up an investigation of a close friend's boyfriend, who turned out to be seeing another woman, to whom he had proposed. Amazingly, Regan finds the new fiancee working at the garage sale. Regan is quickly drawn into a search for Cleo and must sort through several jealous suspects to try to save her. This is one for series fans; it is assumed that listeners are familiar with the characters, as the story moves quickly and somewhat choppily from one event to the next. Tony Award-winning actress Michelle Pawk, as narrator, makes the best of the material. [See Prepub Alert, 10/25/10; the Scribner hc, published in April, was a New York Times best seller.--Ed.]--Mary Knapp, Madison P.L., WI

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March 28, 2011
In Clark's overly complicated 14th mystery featuring New York City PI Regan Reilly (after 2010's Wrecked), Reilly's mother, "well-known suspense writer" Nora Regan Reilly, asks Regan to join her in Bay Head, N.J. Nora is concerned about eccentric 78-year-old Edna Frawley, who's sold her house on the Jersey shore and is about to hold a big garage sale. The sale's prize items are personal possessions of movie actress Cleo Paradise, who recently rented the house, then left suddenly with a note to Edna authorizing her to do whatever she wanted with whatever was left behind. Life imitates art as a stalker begins leaving Cleo dead flowers, just as in her latest film, You Don't Bring Me Flowers, Alive or Dead. The action shifts perspectives to introduce a legion of people who wish the star dead. Cleo is so underdeveloped that few will be waiting with bated breath for the identification of the creep threatening her.