Now in mass market, New York Times bestselling author Carol Higgins
Clark delivers the thirteenth installment in her crowd pleasing Regan
Reilly mystery series, this time with Regan trying to find a mysterious
woman's identity while on vacation in Cape Cod, in a story The Daily
Beast calls "thrilling."
Private Investigator Regan Reilly and her husband, Jack "no relation"
Reilly, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, are about to celebrate their
first wedding anniversary. They are looking forward to a quiet romantic
weekend out of town. Wouldn't you know their choice of destination
provides them with anything but!
Regan and Jack had considered going to Bermuda, but instead they decide
to spend four days at his parents' beautiful beachfront home on Cape
Cod, a wonderful spot where they'd never been alone. During the summer
the house overflowed with Jack's family, bubbling with activity from
morning until night. But to be up there for a weekend in April, just the
two of them, sounded like a perfect escape.
However, the best laid plans...
In the bedroom, Regan opens the curtains to find Skip, the Reillys'
young caretaker, pressing his nose against the glass, supposedly
checking for leaks. A moment later, Jack arrives home from the market,
two gossipy older women who live up the street in tow. A branch crashed
through their living room window, and they need a place to stay. When
Regan thought things couldn't get any worse, Skip comes running into the
house, distraught that he'd just discovered Adele Hopkins, the woman
renting the house next door, in a heap at the bottom of her staircase to
the beach. Regan and Jack run back down with him, but huge waves are
crashing on the shore. Hopkins is gone, presumably swept out to sea.
Regan and Jack begin an investigation to help their friends track down
Hopkins's family. They start by interviewing two young women who own the
shop where Adele had bought the pillows. Pippy and Ellen opened Pillow
Talk after they both lost their jobs. When a newspaper article revealing
the terrible way the women had been treated by their former employers
was posted on the Internet, business took off, they started to become
well-known, and the Pillow Talk website became a place for people who
had had similar experiences to vent their feelings.
Pippy and Ellen just received an anonymous e-mail from someone who spews
venom about her former rowing coach--Adele Hopkins. Could she be the
same Adele Hopkins?
Regan and Jack's search for clues to this mysterious woman's identity
makes for an anniversary weekend they'll never forget!
