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entertainment2 years ago

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

Best-selling author and made-for-TV movie star Carol Higgins Clark, known for her 18-book series focused on Private Investigator Regan Reilly, has died at the age of 66 due to appendix cancer. She also co-wrote four Christmas-themed novels with her mother, suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark, who died in 2020. Clark was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2016 and is survived by her siblings, Marilyn, Warren and David Clark, and by her nieces and nephews.

literature2 years ago

Mystery Writer Carol Higgins Clark Passes Away at 66.

Carol Higgins Clark, a popular suspense novelist known for injecting humor into her murder mysteries, has died at the age of 66. She was best known for her character Regan Reilly, a fictional private eye with a backstory that mirrored her own life. Clark often collaborated with her mother, Mary Higgins Clark, on Christmas-themed whodunits. She was also an actress and had a small role in the film adaptation of her mother's book "Where Are the Children?" Clark's cause of death was appendix cancer.

obituary2 years ago

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.

obituary2 years ago

Mystery Writer and Actress Carol Higgins Clark Passes Away at 66.

Carol Higgins Clark, a best-selling suspense novelist and daughter of Mary Higgins Clark, died at the age of 66 due to appendix cancer. She wrote more than a dozen novels on her own and collaborated with her mother on several Christmas-themed books. Her debut novel, "Decked," introduced Regan Reilly, a private investigator who would anchor almost all of her books. Carol's books were known for their humor, in contrast to her mother's psychological suspense. She also had a modest career as an actress, appearing in movies based on her mother's books.