Best-selling mystery author Carol Higgins Clark passes away at 66.

Carol Higgins Clark, the famed author and New Jersey Hall of Fame inductee, died at the age of 66 after a three-year battle with appendix cancer. Her career spanned decades and included an 18-novel series starring Private Investigator Regan Reilly as the central character. Clark even teamed up with her mother for four novels. She was also involved in charity including Catholic Charities and Project Angel Food, an organization that prepares and delivers medically tailored meals to people living with serious illness as well as ACPMP, an appendix cancer research foundation.