Deck the Halls - (Holiday Classics) by Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark (Paperback)

About the Book

Bestselling mother-and-daughter authors join forces to create this entertaining and suspenseful novel played out against a holiday setting. Just before Christmas, Regan Reilly, Carol Higgins Clark's dynamic young sleuth, meets Alvirah Meehan, Mary Higgins Clark's famous lottery-winning amateur detective, and both embark on a desperate search for Regan's kidnapped father.

Book Synopsis

Mary Higgins Clark, America's beloved "Queen of Suspense," and her daughter, bestselling mystery novelist Carol Higgins Clark, team up to write a spine-tingling and heartwarming story.

Combining Carol Higgles Clark's ongoing central character, the young and feisty Regan Reilly, and Mary Higgins Clark's Willy and Alvirah, featured earlier in the bestsellers The Lottery Winner and All Through the Night, the story begins when Regan's businessman father Luke Reilly goes missing just before Christmas, held hostage for ransom by his partner's angered and disinherited son. Regan turns for help to her parents' Central Park South neighbors, Willy and Alvirah, with whom she shares not only a talent for detection, but an unusually accommodating genius of a dentist who brings them together.

Together, as New York City prepares for Christmas, the three of them join forces to find Luke, only to discover that he is not just missing, but kidnapped, along with the driver of the taxi in which he was riding, a Hispanic single mother of two.

The result is a fast-paced novel of suspense perfect for the Christmas season.

Review Quotes

A dynamic team. -- People magazine

A seamless collaboration . . . a thriller that fits right into the Yuletide spirit. -- San Diego Union-Tribune

About the Author

The #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark wrote over forty suspense novels, four collections of short stories, a his­torical novel, a memoir, and two children's books. With bestselling author Alafair Burke she wrote the Under Suspicion series including The Cinderella Murder, All Dressed in White, The Sleeping Beauty Killer, Every Breath You Take, You Don't Own Me, and Piece of My Heart. With her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, she coauthored five suspense novels. More than one hundred million copies of her books are in print in the United States alone. Her books are international bestsellers.

Carol Higgins Clark (1956-2023) was the bestselling author of the Regan Reilly mysteries. She was the daughter of suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark, with whom she coauthored a bestselling holiday suspense series. Also an actress, Carol Higgins Clark studied at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and recorded several novels. She received AudioFile's Earphones Award of Excellence for her reading of Jinxed.