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Deck the Halls (Alvirah Meehan, Regan Reilly)
Deck the Halls - Alvirah Meehan, Regan Reilly
Author: Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark
Three days before Christmas, Regan Reilly, the dynamic young sleuth featured in the novels of Carol Higgins Clark, accidentally meets Alvirah Meehan, Mary Higgins Clark's famous lottery winner and amateur detective, at a New Jersey dentist's office. That's where it all begins. — While Regan's mother, Nora, the famous mystery write...  more »
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PBS Market Price: $8.09 or $4.19+1 credit
ISBN-13: 9780743418133
ISBN-10: 0743418131
Publication Date: 11/1/2002
Pages: 320
Rating:
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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3.7 stars, based on 157 ratings
Publisher: Pocket
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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gottasalsa avatar reviewed Deck the Halls (Alvirah Meehan, Regan Reilly) on + 38 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
A delightful collaboration my mother-daughter mystery writers, Mary Higging Clark and Carol Higgins Clark, teaming up their respective female detectives. A kidnapping by a couple of incompetents. A lot of fun to read.
reviewed Deck the Halls (Alvirah Meehan, Regan Reilly) on + 16 more book reviews
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On her own, each Clark has written reliably entertaining mystery/thrillers that occasionally exhibit storytelling magic. The authors' first collaborationDwhich also sees a collaboration by their respective publishers, as well as the teaming of two of their best-known sleuthsDis only middling, however, though it will please their many fans. Three days before Christmas, Luke Reilly, who owns a string of funeral homes, and his young female driver, Rosita Gonzalez, are kidnapped for ransom. Luke is the husband of Nora Regan Reilly, a bestselling mystery writer based somewhat on Mary Higgins Clark; both are parents to Regan Reilly, Carol Higgins Clark's series detective (Twanged, etc.). Regan gets on the case at once, but she doesn't make much headway until she pairs up with Alvirah Meegan, the cleaning woman who turned private eye after winning a $40-million lottery in Mary Higgins Clark's Weep No More My Lady. (Here, Regan and Alvirah make each other's acquaintance at a dentist's office.) Meanwhile, Luke and Rosita remain chained on a small boat offshore from New Jersey as their two bumbling kidnappers plan, execute and bobble a ransom run. The boat starts to sink. Will Luke and Rosita drown? There's probably not a reader alive who thinks they will, and it'll surprise no one when Regan and Alvirah trip over clues as big as Christmas trees to save the day. But if the novel generates little suspense, it does go down like roasted chestnuts, and fans will greatly enjoy the pairing of two favorite detectivesDand two popular writersDin a lightweight but amiably lighthearted Christmas ornament of a book. (Nov. 1)
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Holiday Romantic Suspence. Blends suspence with poignancy, laugh out loud humor, and all around holiday cheer.
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reviewed Deck the Halls (Alvirah Meehan, Regan Reilly) on + 204 more book reviews
I finished this book in one sitting. Not because the book was that well written or that engrossing, but because it felt like something I read in grade school. Roberts should be ashamed of herself for this disaster.
reviewed Deck the Halls (Alvirah Meehan, Regan Reilly) on + 6 more book reviews
Exciting small book with the "who done it " style of the author
reviewed Deck the Halls (Alvirah Meehan, Regan Reilly) on + 19 more book reviews
A story with Regan Reilly and Alvirah Meehan.Has lots of twists and turns. This is the first Mary Higgins Clark book I've read and will read more.
tigers9494 avatar reviewed Deck the Halls (Alvirah Meehan, Regan Reilly) on + 49 more book reviews
Alvirah & Regan Reilly...enough said!
reviewed Deck the Halls (Alvirah Meehan, Regan Reilly) on + 58 more book reviews
Right before Xmas, Regan Reilly meets Alvirah Meehan at a NJ dentist's office. That where it all begins. While Regan's mom, Nora, has a broken leg in the hospital, her husband and his chauffeur are kidnapped and held for $1,000,000 ransom. Together, Regan and Alvirah track the case. During this, a winter storm is gathering force.

This is a suspenseful, humorous, story.
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I read this book around Christmas time. It was a very good book, especially if you like Mary Higgins Clark!


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