Regan Reilly is in New York to attend a crime conference organized by her celebrity-author mother. A friend, Thomas Pilsner -- the frenetic president of the Settlers' Club on Gramercy Park -- calls Regan, desperately pleading for help. Thomas is distraught over the sudden suspicious deaths of two members of the Settler's Club. The men had promised to donate a cache of valuable diamonds to save the Club. But now the diamonds re gone, the men are dead,...

Private eye Regan Reilly is spending the Christmas holidays with her parents in Aspen, when million-dollar paintings start disappearing, and her friend Eben, an ex-con, becomes a prime suspect.

The book opens on Cape Cod. Regan's husband, Jack "no relation Reilly" is one of six children. His three sisters, two brothers, and their children often gather at Jack's parents' vacation home on Cape Cod. Regan and Jack join the Reilly clan for a simple family vacation on the Cape; but it turns out to be something quite different. Following on the heels of Cursed, Carol's most successful hardcover yet, this title is written with the same light,...