Fun Fun Fun and more Fun This would make a very funny movie. Every scene in this romp novel was great and easy to visualize. It's been a long time since I was able to be so nicely distracted from life realities. This was my first Carol Higgens Clark read but it won't be the last. Delicious.
A great book After two members of the Settlers' Club die of suspicious deaths, the clubs' president asks his friend Regan Riley who is in N.Y. for a crime conference, to help. The dead club members promised to donate valuable diamonds to the club but the diamonds are now missing, the book is great, it keeps you guessing until the very end about who commited the murder(if a murder even was commited).An Actual Crime&The Crime Convention... A murder mystery, robbery, farcical characters, love story, dynamic sleuth, Regan from L. A. flies to New York to visit family and friends and to attend a 'crime' conference. She gets involved in a real crime when Thomas Pilsner, asks for her help in located some missing diamonds which were anticipated as dowry for the continuation of the Settler's Club. Two of the members had pledged four expensive diamonds but, before they can contribute this largesse, they are victims of suspicious deaths.
Thomas fears that he will lose his position with the almost-defunct club and perhaps be indicted for the murders of these two old men. Lydia and her ex-boyfriend, Burkhardt, appear to be a part of the conspiracy to keep the killer from being found. A couple of "stuff sheep" (Dolly&Bah-Bah) have a bit to do with locating the diamonds for Regan, so that she can discover the real killer and get on with her love-life with suitor, Jack. She has to invite him to accompany her home to California to have any privacy from this erratic group.
At the celebration party, securing the future of the Settler's Club and Mr. Pilsner as continuing President, one of the guests intervened to suggest that she and Jack drive down the Coast (which is something Jeff did while out in LaJolla one summer); "Gorgeous. Just gorgeous. You two should try it..."
Since this book was released, Carol Clark has come out with JINXED&POPPED (both in 2003) and BURNED&HITCHED (both in 2005); I am curious to know whether she married Jack!
