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Mobbed (Regan Reilly Mystery #17)

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New York Times bestselling author Carol Higgins Clark is a native of New Jersey. So is her sleuth Regan Reilly. In Mobbed, Clark sends Regan “down the shore” where they have both vacationed since childhood. But this trip turns out to be no vacation for Regan! PI Regan Reilly and her husband, Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, plan to spend the weekend at the Jersey s...more New York Times bestselling author Carol Higgins Clark is a native of New Jersey. So is her sleuth Regan Reilly. In Mobbed, Clark sends Regan “down the shore” where they have both vacationed since childhood. But this trip turns out to be no vacation for Regan! PI Regan Reilly and her husband, Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, plan to spend the weekend at the Jersey shore with her parents. Regan’s mother, suspense writer Nora Regan Reilly, will be celebrating her birthday on Saturday. But Regan’s weekend gets off to an early start when she receives a phone call from her mother asking if she’d hop on a train right away.

Regan had just finished delivering bad news to a high school classmate. Hayley Patton is a successful New York City event planner, who had become suspicious that her beau, Scott, was seeing other women and hired Regan to follow him. When Hayley got the lowdown on Scott’s treachery, she vowed revenge with such vehemence that Regan is worried that Hayley might go too far.

Turns out Nora had also just spoken to an agitated high school classmate. Karen Frawley Fulton, who lives in San Diego, called Nora after learning her mother’s plans for the day. To Karen’s shock, Edna Frawley just sold their home at the Jersey shore and is having a garage sale to end all garage sales. Everything the beautiful young actress Cleo Paradise left behind when she recently rented the house is up for grabs. The irrepressible Edna even rented a plane to fly over the beach touting the sale, using Cleo’s name as bait. Karen’s heading East but asks Nora to please go to the house and, she hopes, curtail any other outrageous antics her mother probably has in mind. Nora agrees and asks Regan to join her.

Regan and Nora arrive at the Frawley home to find a mob of garage-sale junkies waiting at the front gate. Regan is astonished to see Scott’s brand-new fiancée, who quickly makes herself scarce.

Once inside the house, Regan becomes increasingly suspicious about why Cleo left so many belongings behind when she vacated Edna’s home unexpectedly. Was she in that much of a hurry? Regan wonders. “Where did Cleo go?” is a question too many people are suddenly asking. But no one has the answer. It isn’t long before Regan finds herself searching for Cleo, whose next hours may be her last.

Mobbed is another “fast-paced mystery with unexpected plot twists and Clark’s trademark humor” (The Daily Beast).(less)

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Published April 5th 2011 by Scribner (first published January 1st 2011)

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Apr 10, 2012 Susan Ashcraft rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: light mystery readers

Shelves: detective, fiction, mystery

A Regan Reilly Mystery

Cleo Paradise, a rising new star with an Oscar nomination, is nowhere to be found and is not answering her cell phone. Leaving only a note, she abruptly leaves the New Jersey shore home she was renting from Edna Frawley.

In San Diego, Karen Fulton receives an upsetting email from her mother. With the sale of her childhood home and a large garage sale set to happen that very day on the East Coast, Karen asks her old friend Nora Regan Reilly to go check on her mother in Bay He...more

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Apr 10, 2011 Jeannie and Louis Rigod rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"Mobbed" by Carol Higgins Clark. Actually that is all I needed to read in order to place a pre-order. I would have been very shocked if I hadn't enjoyed this latest novel in the "A Regan Reilly Mystery" series.

As I predicted the book was a hit with me.

Megan and husband, Jack are looking forward to spending her Mother's birthday on the Jersey Shore. Jack has a high powered position with the NYPD, and Megan is a licensed Private Investigator which is another stressful job.

Before Megan can pack th...more

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Oct 16, 2011 Mary rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Well, as a Regan Reilly Mystery fan and I have read them all, this one was OK. There was no murders, but it took place at the Jersey shore. The Jersey Shore is dear to my heart. I have spent many happy times there especially at Seaside Heights, Ortley Beach, and Point Pleasant with all of my family. Carol Higgins Clark always writes about the New York area and New Jersey, even though she had Regan living in California the first few books of the series.

Regan has come home to New York and is marr...more

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Jul 03, 2011 CD rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, suspense

A great title and storyline about the Jersey Shore, garage sales, movie stars, dates from hell, stalkers and the book has a great cover! A dust jacket that teases the reader with all the pertinent highlights and really doesn't give away too much but just enough. Wow! So what went wrong and earned this a two star rating of 'it was ok'?

The book has a weak opening. The pacing of the story line is not to my liking. What is presented in the first twenty pages is close to sophomoric writing. This 255...more A great title and storyline about the Jersey Shore, garage sales, movie stars, dates from hell, stalkers and the book has a great cover! A dust jacket that teases the reader with all the pertinent highlights and really doesn't give away too much but just enough. Wow! So what went wrong and earned this a two star rating of 'it was ok'?

The book has a weak opening. The pacing of the story line is not to my liking. What is presented in the first twenty pages is close to sophomoric writing. This 255 page book has 80 chapters! Yes, 80 chapters. Why? Well ...

It's a television screenplay at best. The book comes off as just having emerged from the computer application for writers who want to generate various presentations and treatments from the same work. There is complete dialogue for each character in each scene/chapter. There are descriptions of the appropriate establishing shots for each scene buried in the prose that begins chapter after chapter. This book is cut up like a looooongggg treatment for some made-for-TV show. 80 chapter. 80 scenes. 30 seconds to two minutes each. Two hour movie or three night mini-series with some additional filler scenes and an added flash back or two so that it isn't so, so, well just G-rated.

The reveal of the 'bad guy' is anti-climatic. The opening characters don't do anything at the end other than go to a picnic at the beach and they want to do it again next weekend. Not having read any other Regan Reilly book and unlikely to now, I have no knowledge to add to the quality or relationship of this book to the series. Sincerely do I wish that this is the worst. This style of formula based writing has potential to churn out readable fun books one after another. The application here however leaves me unsatisfied and perhaps mildly annoyed. I am disappointed that a book at first blush had all the ingredients for one of my favorite types of entertainment reading and failed so miserably to deliver.

I even ran across a few switches in tense that slipped through the grammar parser. Sentences that grammatically are perfect, but suddenly for one or two 'lines' switches the narration to first person and then just as suddenly back to the third person. Weird, but typical of a mass market generated work. I just wish after all these decades of this happening in popular literature, it would not.

Mobbbed had great potential and a definite catchy outline; it doesn't deliver. (less)

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May 06, 2011 Rhonda rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

its a typical regan mystery. I liked it. Regan is a P.I who lives in New York with her husband police detective Jack. Regan found out for a high school friend that the guy she is dating got engaged the night before. Regan and Jack are going to New Jersey shore to be with her parents Nora whos a author and her father Luke.
Nora's old friend from school calls her up and tells her mother has sold the house and selling everything all of a sudden and would she go check on her mom. She in L.A. and is c...more

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May 19, 2011 Karen B rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: anyone who has enjoyed Carol Higgins Clark's previous work

Shelves: read-since-joining-goodreads, mystery, cozy, large-print-edition

First I have to point out the one disappointing aspect of the book. I live in New Jersey and I really looked forward to reading this book. The dust jacket describes the characters as traipsing from the beauitifully restored Victorian resort town of Cape May to....

The characters are never in Cape May. It mentions the casinos and walking the boardwalk of Atlantic City --- one character in one part of one scene takes place on the Boardwalk of Atlantic City.

Regan Reilly supposedly runs into old fri...more

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Aug 14, 2012 Lauren rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2012

This series definitely gets better as it goes along. Regan becomes more comfortable as a character and the addition of Jack was a nice one and they work well together as a detective pair. Ms. Clark also makes better use of supplementary characters. A lot of them felt more like they could be real people rather than the caricatures more common in the earlier installments in the series, which made them feel very day time tv.

It basically all amounts to good clean mystery fun. I'm actually finding m...more

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May 05, 2011 BJ rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: local-library, 2011, mysteries-suspense, series-more-than-3

"Mobbed" by Carol Higgins Clark is another in her Regan Reilly Mystery series. I really like this series. Regan is a really likeable character, as is her new husband, Jack, Head of the NYPD Major Case Squad. This story takes place at the Jersey Shore where Regan and Jack head for a little R and R with Regan's Mom and Dad for her Mom's Birthday. As usual, their R and R turns into a mystery, or a couple of mysteries involving a movie star, a garage sale, a trunk full of skulls, and a business call...more

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Apr 20, 2011 Janice rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another quick read by Carol Higgins Clark. This book is about a garage sale on the Jersey Shore where a star (Cleo's) items were sold. A stalker has been sending Cleo dead roes with thorns as real life imitates the movie she starred in. Cleo's mom hires private investigator Regan Reilly to find her daughter who has many enemies among the envious Hollywood crowd. Cleo hides out and relaxes at a dude ranch nearby but is unaware that someone is closing in on her to hurt her. A typical Carol Higgins...more

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Jul 29, 2011 Glenda Alexander rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Great plot, it's a different style of writing that is taking some getting accustomed to.

I had really looked forward to receiving this book as I have enjoyed several of Carol Higgins Clark books in the past. Maybe I would have enjoyed it more had I read the previous "Regan Reilly Mysteries" (which means I have a lot of catching up to do).

It was a very fast read and would be a good book for a quick read.

Wish they had a 1/2 star, this is 3.5 almost a 4, and might be a 4 after I read the rest of the...more

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Apr 17, 2013 Kari Anderson rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-book

From Goodreads.com
PI Regan Reilly and her husband, Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, plan to spend the weekend at the Jersey shore with her parents. Regan’s mother, suspense writer Nora Regan Reilly, will be celebrating her birthday on Saturday. But Regan’s weekend gets off to an early start when she receives a phone call from her mother asking if she’d hop on a train right away.

Regan had just finished delivering bad news to a high school classmate. Hayley Patton is a successful New York...more From Goodreads.com
PI Regan Reilly and her husband, Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, plan to spend the weekend at the Jersey shore with her parents. Regan’s mother, suspense writer Nora Regan Reilly, will be celebrating her birthday on Saturday. But Regan’s weekend gets off to an early start when she receives a phone call from her mother asking if she’d hop on a train right away.

Regan had just finished delivering bad news to a high school classmate. Hayley Patton is a successful New York City event planner, who had become suspicious that her beau, Scott, was seeing other women and hired Regan to follow him. When Hayley got the lowdown on Scott’s treachery, she vowed revenge with such vehemence that Regan is worried that Hayley might go too far.

Turns out Nora had also just spoken to an agitated high school classmate. Karen Frawley Fulton, who lives in San Diego, called Nora after learning her mother’s plans for the day. To Karen’s shock, Edna Frawley just sold their home at the Jersey shore and is having a garage sale to end all garage sales. Everything the beautiful young actress Cleo Paradise left behind when she recently rented the house is up for grabs. The irrepressible Edna even rented a plane to fly over the beach touting the sale, using Cleo’s name as bait. Karen’s heading East but asks Nora to please go to the house and, she hopes, curtail any other outrageous antics her mother probably has in mind. Nora agrees and asks Regan to join her.

Regan and Nora arrive at the Frawley home to find a mob of garage-sale junkies waiting at the front gate. Regan is astonished to see Scott’s brand-new fiancée, who quickly makes herself scarce.

Once inside the house, Regan becomes increasingly suspicious about why Cleo left so many belongings behind when she vacated Edna’s home unexpectedly. Was she in that much of a hurry? Regan wonders. “Where did Cleo go?” is a question too many people are suddenly asking. But no one has the answer. It isn’t long before Regan finds herself searching for Cleo, whose next hours may be her last.

My Thoughts:
It’s been a while since I listened to this on audio book, so my thoughts are going to be short and sweet. Unfortunately, I don’t even remember what happened with Cleo. I vaguely remember some of the possible suspects connected to her going missing, but I don’t remember how it turned out.

But I thought this book had a great story line and I loved Cleo’s story, the Frawley’s story and Hayley’s story all weave into each other. That’s one of the things I love most about Mary and Carol Higgins Clark’s books. They all have several different plots and mold and weave into one another and come together at the end.

I am a huge fan of the Regan Reilly mysteries. I love strong female characters and Regan is definitely one. I also love the relationship between Regan and her husband Jack. They are both very strong on their own, but when they come together, it’s like nothing else in the world matters. They are each other’s rock. There is always a scene where they come together and it just makes your heart melt.

I was a little hesitant to read Carol’s books at first because I loved her mother’s so much, I was afraid they would be a let down. But after listening to a couple now, I am growing to like them more and more, but I still like Mary’s better.

I give Mobbed 4 out of 5 bookmarks.(less)

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Jul 09, 2011 Jessica rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: library, mystery

Carol Higgins Clark's books are always fun and zany - but they're a bit too zany for my taste. They're always a quick read, though, and a departure from what I normally read. The books aren't the type of mysteries where you can figure out who did it; you just enjoy the story and wait until the end to find out - sometimes its someone completely out of left field. Try this series if you're looking for an afternoon diversion. I read this book in a couple hours.

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May 16, 2011 Linda Munro rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another easy reading, Regan Reily mystery. Sometimes we just need a book that you can breeze through without engaging your brain and Carol Higgins Clark is a master in this arena. Regan's cases get always entangled, this mystery is no exception; but, how can one conceive that having a potential mate investigated, the mysterious disappearence of a well-known celebrity and a yard sale could cause such an adventure? Only in the life of private invstigator Regan Riley can such an adventure entangle...more

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Sep 22, 2012 Bonnie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was definitely light reading, or listening in my case since I listened to the audiobook edition. It was maybe a bit fluffy for my taste, but it was fun and I can see why Ms. Clark's books sell well. The plot kind of made me think of a balloon or shuttlecock being batted back and forth but never falling down. I really liked the fact that it doesn't contain gratuitous sex, violence and foul language.

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Nov 25, 2012 Jessi rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012, appealing-characteristic-story, contemporary, mystery, part-of-a-series

Regan is onto another set of mysteries. This one revolves around a garage sale and includes subplots of her friends Hayley (boyfriend just proposed to another woman) and Kit (latest setup, courtesy of Regan, was more interested in talking about invertebrates than talking to her) struggling to find love. The main plot is of an actress whose quick departure precipitates the garage sale.

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Nov 20, 2011 Sayres2974 rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: nobody

Thin plot. This is more misery than mystery She will never be as good as her mother. Every time I pick up one of her books I am disappointed. She is trading on her name. Don't bother with this one. I read it in one afternoon that I just wanted to sit and rest. I rested my body and my mind because I could follow it without using my brain. Sorry Carol I think I'm finished with you

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Aug 06, 2011 Debbie Buscher rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

For once I actually really enjoyed this book by Carol Higgins Clark. The writing and story line was better than usual and it wasn't completely obvious who the killer was. Jack and Regan are set to spend some vacation time at the Jersey Shore when a famous actress goes missing. Regan is on the case and Alvira (the lottery winner) is part of the fun.

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Jul 08, 2012 Isabel rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I always enjoy the Regan Reilly mysteries because they are a quick read. There were definitely some very interesting characters; I never even guessed who was stalking Cleo. It is a very light read that is not complex at all, and sometimes it's ok to read a more simplistic book. Overall, a very enjoyable plot line with enjoyable characters.

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Apr 29, 2011 big hiker 2 rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Fast-paced and entertaining, this novel gets 4 stars because of the uncanny ability of its author to keep readers guessing all the way to the VERY end. She introduces so many different characters who could be the culprit, and keeps them up as suspicious characters to the very last page or so. My first by CHC, it won't be the last. I really liked it! =)

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Dec 16, 2011 Cheri added it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-book

Just terrible shit! I listened to this on a road trip and considered MANY times if the AM Radio bible banging religious white guy telling me I was going to hell would be better than listening to this book. It was a toss up. So glad it was from the library and I could put it in the dropbox and no one would see me.

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Jan 13, 2013 Amber Davis rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was horribly slow and hard to get into. There were far too many characters and I didnt have an emotional bond with any of them! At the end when the big reveal of the stalker happened they said his name and I immediately though "i dont even know who that is". Definitely not up to par with her mothers brilliant writing style.

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Dec 26, 2011 Jessica Wilson rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

How can anyone not think this book was funny? It was a good escape for a few days. I couldn't put the book down and like always was surprised by the ending. You never can guess who the culprit will be. I just can't wait to see Regan and Jack finally have kids. That will be an adventure in of itself.

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Oct 17, 2011 Kay rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fluff

I found this book to be lame. I don't expect her books to be a great novel but usually I enjoy the light 'finish in a few hours' entertaining books she writes. This one failed on all accounts. It seemed to be more haphazard than previous ones and I was looking for any excuse to put it down.

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Apr 25, 2013 Michelle rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

As always I love these books. The way the author weaves the stories to entwin the lives of several different character together is great. When I think that I know who it is she again shocks me and the story ends totally differently that I expected.

Thank you again Carol Higgins Clark

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May 17, 2011 Jennie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another fun read from Carol Higgins Clark. A light mystery, there are always lot of entertaining characters and enough twists and turns that while you may have met the bad guy(s), the end result isn't quite what you expected. Quick and fun, I always look forward to these releases.

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Feb 29, 2012 Kathy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: adult-fiction

This book is exactly what I wanted - light-weight, a little mystery, a little humor, no heavy thinking. The Regan Reilly mysteries are great for fun, light reading and this was no exception. The plot was a little far fetched but this is escape reading and is fine in that light.

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Aug 20, 2011 Jacquelynn Fritz rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Regan and Nora go a friend's mother's garage sale and find a missing film actress, who left some of her belongings at the house. At the parents' request Regan goes looking for the actress. Its a light mystery with humor thrown in and why I like to read them, just for the fun.

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Oct 03, 2012 Stephanie rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It's challenging for me to follow a book where there are many different characters, all using first person. I had to figure out who was talking and then who that person was in relation to the main character. I don't typically enjoy books where I have to think a lot! But I was happy that I figured out "who did it" before it was revealed.

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Jun 28, 2012 Chocbookworm rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another good quick read mystery. A famous actress tries to be low key posing as an author in a rented log cabin after quickly disappearing from a rental property leaving her belongings behind. When her best friend , Daisy, and her parents are unable to locate her the panic begins.

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Jan 02, 2012 Kathy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I have read quite a few of the books in the Regan Reilly series by Carol Higgins Clark and they are all good light reads. Mobbed is a good read as well. I really enjoyed the story. It moved along quickly and there was plenty of action and suspense.

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Carol Higgins Clark (1956– ) is an American mystery author. She is also the daughter of author Mary Higgins Clark , with whom she has co-authored novels, and the former sister-in-law of author Mary Jane Clark.

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