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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1992
  • Latest Book:
    April 2012
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Carol Higgins Clark is the author of the bestselling Regan Reilly mysteries. She is coauthor, along with her mother, Mary Higgins Clark, of a bestselling holiday suspense series. Also an actress, Carol Higgins Clark studied at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and has recorded several novels. She received AudioFile’s Earphones Award of Excellence for her reading of Jinxed. She lives in New York City. Her website is CarolHigginsClark.com.

Update: June 12, 2023

Carol Higgins Clark, author of the best-selling Regan Reilly series and an actress in several television series and made-for-TV movies, died June 12 in New York of appendix cancer. She was 66.

Full Series List in Order

A Regan Reilly Mystery

1 - Decked (Jul-1992)
2 - Snagged (Jun-1993)
3 - Iced (Jun-1995)
4 - Twanged (Mar-1998)
5 - Fleeced (Nov-2001)
6 - Jinxed (Aug-2002)
7 - Popped (Sep-2003)
8 - Burned (Mar-2005)
9 - Hitched (May-2006)
10 - Laced (Apr-2007)
11 - Zapped (Apr-2008)
12 - Cursed (Apr-2009)
13 - Wrecked (Apr-2010)
14 - Mobbed (Apr-2011)
15 - Gypped (Apr-2012)

Book List in Order: 17 titles



  • The daughter of a successful mystery writer and a P.I. with pizzazz, Regan Reilly is attending her class reunion at St. Polycarp's, England, when the long-dead body of her former roommate turns up under the bushes. It's a case Regan would lov...



  • Murder at a Miami panty-hose convention? It's a perfect case for a sleuth with panache and great legs. Coming to trendy South Beach for a wedding, Regan Reilly meets the bride's favorite relative, the seventy-something Uncle Richie. He's also headed ...



  • SOLVING A CRIME AT A SKI RESORT CAN BE ALL DOWNHILL! P1. Regan Reilly has high hopes for her Aspen vacation -- such as meeting an unmarried man! But a mystery soon has the chic detective snooping rather than skiing. Million-dollar paintings have b...



  • Sixteen stories about love gone wrong consider the link between romance and death and include contributions by such popular authors as Mary Higgins Clark, Jonathan Kellerman, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain, and Joyce Carol Oates. Reprint....



  • Joining together for a good cause brings out the best in today's top mystery and suspense writers! For this marvelously entertaining anthology, these outstanding contributors rose to a unique literary challenge: each penned a tale that ingeniously fe...



  • Regan Reilly plans to spend her Fourth of July week vacationing in the Hamptons at her parents' home and also with her best friend, Kit, who has a share in a group house. A last-minute phone call, however, casts Regan's trip in a new light. B...



  • 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" R...



  • Savvy young Los Angeles P.I. Regan Reilly faces an unusual challenge when she gets an urgent call from Lilac Weldon, owner -- with her two hippie brothers -- of the run-down California winery Altered States. Lilac asks Regan to find her actress daugh...



  • L.A.-based private detective Regan Reilly heads to Las Vegas to help out her old school chum Danny Madley. Danny is producing a reality TV show featuring three married couples who have all suffered the proverbial "Seven Year Itch," but are now vying...






  • Regan Reilly is vacationing at the Waikiki Waters Playground and Resort, spending one last girls' weekend with her best gal pal before she ties the knot with Jack "no relation" Reilly. But the fun is suddenly interrupted when the body of Dorinda Dawe...



  • The date is Saturday, April 2. 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...



  • A haunted Irish castle, international jewel thieves, and a hotel fire -- New York Times bestselling author Carol Higgins Clark has sent Regan and Jack Reilly on a honeymoon like no other! Private Investigator Regan Reilly and her new husband, Jack...



  • Regan and Jack Reilly return to Manhattan after a summer weekend away just as a citywide blackout strikes. Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, is called to an art gallery burglary, while Regan helps her best friend, Kit, abandoned at a comedy cl...



  • 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 N...



  • PI Regan Reilly and her husband, Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, arrive at his parents' beachfront home on Cape Cod late on an April night, just in time to experience the beginning of a major storm. The weather doesn't matter -- they're at t...



  • New Jersey native Carol Higgins Clark sends her sleuth Regan Reilly and her mother Nora "down the shore" -- the real Jersey Shore -- in this classic suspense novel featuring a mixture of murder, mayhem, and a cast of suspects you'll never forget. Ex...



  • When Regan Reilly returned to the West Coast, where she began her career as a PI, she never imagined that her unsuccessful appearance on a game show seven years earlier would throw her trip totally off course! REGAN REILLY is in Los Angeles with h...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Carol Higgins Clark has published 17 books.

Carol Higgins Clark does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Gypped, was published in April 2012.

The first book by Carol Higgins Clark, Decked, was published in July 1992.

Yes. Carol Higgins Clark has 1 series.