Zapped, Carol Higgins Clark
Zapped, Carol Higgins Clark
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Zapped
A Regan Reilly Mystery

Author: Carol Higgins Clark

Narrator: Carol Higgins Clark

Unabridged: 5 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/08/2008


Synopsis

It's a hot, humid July night in New York City. Where were you when the lights went out?

As Zapped begins, the Reillys return home from a summer weekend to the loft in Tribeca they are in the agonizing process of renovating and expanding. They are looking forward to a quiet supper on their newly acquired rooftop terrace. But it's not meant to be. While Jack goes to pick up Chinese food, Regan enters their apartment, unaware that a nervous thief, who preceded her by minutes, is hiding in the front closet. A thief who knows about a hidden safe that Regan and Jack have yet to discover. Minutes later, the blackout strikes, and both Reillys are called into action.

A new gallery in SoHo, featuring treasured glass sculptures from all over the world, has been burglarized. As head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, Jack oversees several departments. Art theft is one of them.

PI Regan hears from her best friend, Kit, who is in Manhattan on business. She's been abandoned at a comedy club by a colleague from an insurance convention, Georgina Mathieson, who ran out for a cigarette moments before the blackout struck and never came back. Kit gets a call that Georgina is disturbed and dangerous. Fueled by her rage at a college boyfriend who dumped her, Georgina seeks revenge on unsuspecting young blond men. She was last seen getting into a cab outside the club—with a tall blond. Regan heads the search for Georgina and her potential victim.

Meanwhile, Lorraine Lily, an almost famous actress, returns to New York City the night of the blackout, after spending three months in England doing a play, and is informed by her estranged husband, Conrad Spreckles, that he'd sold his loft to their next-door neighbors, the Reillys. Lorraine had never told him about the hidden safe she'd had installed in the closet. If she doesn't get back what's in there, she's sure her budding career will be ruined.

In Zapped, Clark takes readers on a tour of the city they won't forget and introduces them to a wonderful cast of colorful, eccentric characters whose stories intersect in precarious and often humorous ways during one very dark and hot summer night.

About Carol Higgins Clark

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.   


Reviews

Goodreads review by Luffy Sempai on August 23, 2019

I enjoyed 'Zapped' in my own way. I was glad that there were not too many characters to keep track of. I only thought that the stakes weren't high enough. But what Carol Higgins Clark does is not simple. She is the author whose work gives me the most pause, because I know it took a lot of her to crea......more

Goodreads review by Dharia on May 25, 2014

Since I don't normally write reviews unless I have something specific to say, here's the break down of how I rate my books... 1 star... This book was bad, so bad I may have given up and skipped to the end. I will avoid this author like the plague in the future. 2 stars... This book was not very good,......more

Goodreads review by Jerry on October 31, 2022

A quick read, but a fun one, and clean-cut, too. Reminds me of the old-school TV mystery series.......more

Goodreads review by Hasan on October 17, 2013

This is a harmless little story – weak mystery with way too many coincidences. All the characters know each other and run into each other during the NYC blackout of 2003. It turns out that this is the 11th in a series by Carol Higgins Clark featuring the detective Regan Reilly. This might be a book......more

Goodreads review by John on October 09, 2019

Too many characters that found out they knew each other. Very predictable ending.......more