Zapped (Regan Reilly Series #11)

A great mystery

After spending a delightful weekend at the Cape, NYPD Major Case Squad Chief Detective Jack Reilly and his wife private investigator Regan return to Manhattan. Jack stops for some Chinese take-out while Regan enters their partially renovated apartment where she finds a stun gun on the floor. Obviously someone broke and entered leaving behind evidence. However, a blackout engulfs the city leaving Reilly in the dark. Lorraine Lily is cursing her estrange husband for selling the pad to the Reillys without informing her while she was performing in London. She had a safe built that she needs to open before the Reillys find it or watch her career die.------------------- Not too long afterward Jack is in Soho investigating a theft of valuable sculptures from an art gallery. Meanwhile their friend Kit calls frantically as she says she was with deranged Georgina at a comedy club when the woman vanished just as the blackout occurred they know Georgina hates and hurts blond men.. Regan gathers a group to find them before her date is branded. Ironically the person who broke into her apartment and left the stun gun behind helps on the search------------------- The chance meter is stratospheric as a series of coincidences especially the final spin stacks the deck. However, fans will not care as Regan works the B&E, Jack the art theft, and together the Georgina branding in a fast-paced suspense crime thriller in which Manhattanites think nothing of a blackout in July as this is somewhat the norm.--------------- Harriet Klausner

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Good book

Zapped is an excellent edition to the cozy mysteries written by Carol Higgins Clark. The book is set during a blackout in New York and you feel almost as if you are there with them. It's great how she can write about the different character's stories and how they all relate to each other and tie together. I especially enjoyed the part of how the stolen items were recovered. And it was great how there was the one hotel that opened early so that people could stay there and enjoy the "state of the art generator" that was working so that at least a few people didn't have to be out in the heat and they could ride the elevators during the blackout. Wouldn't it be nice if all apartment buildings and hotels had generators like that for during blackouts, ice storms, etc.?

Carol's books are always cozy, amusing mysteries and I find myself laughing several times during the books. Her books are cozies, not like the sometimes scary suspense her mother, Mary Higgins Clark, writes. Carol's books are for those who prefer cozies. Any adult who likes cozies can read these and understand them. That's often what mysteries are about, cozy or otherwise, different characters whose lives all tie together somehow. Even regular adult fiction is like that.

I look forward to Cursed and many more books by Carol.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Zapped

This book was terrible. When I was a young girl,I read "The Nancy Drew Mysteries". That was wonderful because I was about twelve years old. This book was geared for a reader of that age. For an adult, not only was the plot ridiculous but it bordered on stupid. For instance, on Page 161, during a total blackout, two of the characters ran out of a hotel suite and took and elevator - duh!! I have read Carol Higgins Clark's books before and tried to give her a chance. No more. They are a waste of time and not even entertaining. Unfortunately, she does not have the talent of her mother. She would never be published if not for her mother's reputation.

Margaret

1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

This one Zapped me for the better!

I was looking for a mystery but yet something light...and this was the perfect choice! It was the first Jack/Regan book I have read...and it did not matter that I had not read the others. The story was interesting and it was kind of fun to see how people kept intertwining with each other. For a change of pace, read this one!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Good as a cozy mystery.

This story deals with Regan and Jack returning from their honeymoon and redecorating their apartment. I liked the story, but as a cozy mystery, not as a suspense, as there was little suspense to this story.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Snowclaw

Snow white she- cat with ice blue eyes

This book was entertaining and interesting

I would recommend this book due to easy to follow yet having suspense and keeping my interest.

Disappointing!

I stopped reading Carol Higgins Clark years ago but this book sounded good enough to try again. Really disappointed. The book is not written for an adult, it is written for an immature reader. The plot was flimsy and there were a number of large holes in it, especially for somebody who lived through the 2003 blackout in NYC. Buy it for your 12 year old daughter but don't bother with it otherwise.

If you want a good mystery, get one of the "In Death" books by J.D. Robb.

Carol Clark Higgins "Zapped" it Again

The story is quirky with all of the characters interacting and relating in unexpected ways. Ms Higgins is always an entertaining read.

ZAPPED!

I love Carol Higgins Clark Regan Reilly series.

Great Book!

Zapped was another fast and exciting story from Carol. I have several of her books and find them all very entertaining. I read almost every night to relax my thoughts, sometimes though I will read until 1:00am because I can't put her book down!

Characters

Okay, so I enjoyed the story of this book and the plot was well thought up. The main thing I did not like about this book was that Carol and Mary put too many characters. It's like every chapter or so they introduce some other person into the story and it makes it hard to keep up with what they're all doing. I liked how its mysterious and I must admit, I did want to know what was going to happen but it took me a long time to read this book because of the fact I did not enjoy being confused with the different people. Sorry readers.

Zapped

Really didn't care for it. Had too many plots.
Wore me out trying to unwind it.

GREAT COZY!

If you like cozy mysteries, then the Regan R. series is one you'll most likely enjoy. Zapped was an excellent edition to this cozy mystery series. Sure, there may be mistakes in the books sometimes, even a mistake the equivalent of Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone using her keys at a door without returning to her car to get the keys out of the ignition (E is for Evidence I believe). Mistakes happen to the best of us, cozy or serious mystery. It's all part of life. I found Zapped to be a bit more suspenseful than her other books. If you're looking for Mary Higgins Clark's mysteries, then buy MHC's books, not CHC's. You wouldn't buy Sue Grafton's books looking for her father's writing, so don't do that with CHC's books. I enjoy both MHC AND CHC's books but actually prefer CHC's because they aren't as serious and I like to read cozies that are lighter and with cleaner language usually. Thank you CHC for another excellent cozy. I really enjoy Regan and Jack's adventures. I definitely recommend Zapped and all of CHC's series to cozy mystery fans, and those who, as myself, are capable of reading and enjoying cozy and serious mysteries.

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Written for the teenage audience

This is the second book in the Regan Reilly Mystery series that I have read (listened to). I enjoy her mother¿s work but Carol Higgins Clark is not the writer her mother, Mary Higgins Clark is. Don¿t believe that the daughter can write, just because her mother can.

The book never really got into a real mystery story, in my humble opinion. And, there were so many characters that I couldn¿t keep them all straight. ZAPPED left me feeling like it was written for a teenager reader.

A black out in New York City is the setting but instead of focusing on one mystery (problem), there were several. They included a gal drugging a guy to get revenge, stolen art glass, a divorcing couple, a computer geek, an apartment being renovated and a secret safe. Ms. Clark wove all these unrelated stories together so they all merged in the end but it was just too confusing for me to follow in a story that held my interest.

The main character of Regan Reilly and her husband, Jack, are a bigger than life couple. Regan is a detective and Jack is a cop. Between them, nothing seems impossible. It is just all too storybook for my tastes.

Ms. Higgins is the reader and there is nothing better than the author reading their own work. They know the inflections they wish the characters to have on certain words/sentences.

If you want to read a light, nonsensical book, ZAPPED is it. If you want a mystery to ¿get your teeth into¿, pick another book.

0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Sorry

I have every book written. by both mother and daughter. I so sorry couldn't keep interested. I never put there books down till finish. This did not hold my interest. I was really disappointed. Judy

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