CURSED by Carol Higgins Clark - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK
See all titles by Carol Higgins Clark.Private Investigator Regan Reilly moved from Los Angeles to New
York City when she married her husband, Jack "no relation" Reilly, head
of the NYPD Major Case Squad. To help a friend she ends up taking on a
case that calls her back to her old stomping ground...
Cursed
opens on a cold and gray January morning. Sleet and snow are swirling
as Regan arrives at a warehouse in Long Island City with a trunk full
of her old case files from Los Angeles. After carting all her boxes
into a storage unit, she heads back out into the snow, and her cell
phone rings.
Abigail Feeney, a young woman who had lived across
the hall from Regan in an apartment complex in the Hollywood Hills, is
on the line. Abigail believes her life has been cursed since birth. She
was born on Friday the 13th of January, and her parents gave her a name
with 13 letters. A hairdresser on movie sets, Abigail was recently
injured at work when a piece of scaffolding fell and knocked her over,
and her arm was broken in two places. But that isn't why she is
calling. "Regan!" she exclaims. "The 'no good bum' has been spotted in
town. I desperately need the money he owes me. Can you please come out
here and help me find him?"
Regan immediately knows the identity
of the "no good bum." From her L.A. apartment, Regan had often seen
Abigail's ex, Cody Castle, sitting by the pool, bent over his cell
phone, text messaging nonstop. Before he disappeared three months ago,
he borrowed $100,000 from Abigail. He promised to pay her back in three
months.
"Find him?" Regan asks.
"Yes! My grandmother is
flying here tomorrow. There's a condo she wants to buy me. But we need
that money. She can't find out I don't have it.Regan, can't you spend a
few days with me?"
If Regan weren't freezing, she might have made
an excuse. But Jack was away at a seminar, Regan had never liked the
"no good bum," and Abigail had brought her chicken soup when she'd had
the flu last winter. Within hours Regan is on a flight to Los Angeles
where her adventure with Abigail will take her from the beaches of
Malibu, to the mountains north of the city, to the renovated lofts of
downtown L.A.
Regan starts to feel Abigail's curse is contagious
as she encounters a cast of characters who aren't always welcoming.
Some are downright dangerous. And there's one who is the most dangerous
of all...
