Carol Higgins Clark bestselling writer of Fleeced and co-author with Mary Higgins Clark of He Views You IF YOU ARE Sleeping, earnings in best form in her fresh Regan Reilly secret, blending her skill for intriguing locales, eccentric people, and fast-paced suspense laced with laughter.

In Jinxed, clever, saucy sleuth Regan Reilly encounters a new problem — the case of the missing wedding guest.

Regan, an L.A.-structured personal detective, returns to her office after a vacation with her beau, Jack ‘ about Jinxed no relation’ Reilly. Their tour of the wineries in Napa Valley and Santa Barbara State includes a visit Altered States, a run-down winery owned by three siblings who are all former hippies — Lilac, Earl, and Leon Weldon.

Regan is barely in her workplace when she gets an thrilled call from Lilac. The Weldon family has been asked to the marriage of ninety-three-year-old Lucretia Standish, a previous silent-screen superstar, who produced a killing within a dot-com before it went bankrupt and programs to give the Weldons $2 million each — if they all arrive at her wedding which is usually two days aside. However, Lilac’s girl Whitney, aka Freshness, a young actress, is out of contact and goes where the wind blows. If it generally does not blow her back into town by Sunday morning, the Weldon family will end up being out $8 million.

Regan’s job is to find Whitney. But Lucretia’s fiancé, the very much younger Edward Fields, is also on the hunt. He’s hired an accomplice in crime to locate Whitney and remove her.

With Jinxed, Carol Higgins Clark reaches her very best.