Murder For Love

carol higgins clark

It would be naive, even downright foolish, to suppose that Carol Higgins Clark didn't have an advantage when she completed her first mystery novel, Decked. Her mother, Mary, was firmly established as the bestselling female mystery writer in the world, and it was expected that some of that fame and affection would spill over to her daughter.

In fact, the first book had numerous hardcover reprints and then made the paperback bestseller lists. All went as hoped and predicted. But affection for a writer's book, while it may make a reader curious enough to buy one book by a relative, cannot extend to a second purchase. If readers bought Decked because they liked Mary Higgins Clark, they bought Snagged because they liked Carol Higgins Clark. And Snagged, about murder at a panty-hose convention being held in the same hotel as a funeral directors' convention, did even better than her first book. It made the national bestseller lists both as a hardcover and as a paperback. Her third book, Iced, has been the biggest success of all.

The beautiful actress-turned-writer has enjoyed success in two careers, her bestselling status as an author having been preceded by starring roles in made-for-television movies, among other vehicles.

With "For Whom the Beep Tolls, " she sets off in yet another direction. The creator of the humorous Regan Reilly mysteries has produced her first short story ever, a few elements of which are based-believe it or not-on real-life incidents.

– O. P.