Carol Higgins Clark dies (the daughter)

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/carol-higgins-clark-murder-mystery-novelist-with-dash-of-humor-dies-at-66/ar-AA1cGzjl

Carol Higgins Clark, a writer of popular suspense novels who infused the corpses-and-clues genre with doses of dark humor, while also teaming up with her mother, famed mystery author Mary Higgins Clark, on Christmas-themed whodunits, died June 12 at a hospital in Los Angeles. She was 66.

A family statement said the cause was appendix cancer.


Ms. Clark built her literary brand around the character Regan Reilly, a fictional private eye whose backstory had some autobiographical touches. Reilly’s mother was a famous mystery novelist. Reilly was raised in New Jersey, like Ms. Clark, and drifted to the West Coast.

Ms. Clark’s more than a dozen books also took Reilly on cases that often traced Ms. Clark’s life. “Decked” (1992), Ms. Clark’s first novel, peers into a cold-case murder in England, where Ms. Clark spent a college semester. In “Wrecked” (2010), a mysterious death is investigated on Cape Cod, where Ms. Clark vacationed many summers. The plot of “Mobbed” (2011) involves trying to prevent bloodshed on the New Jersey shore.

“As a writer you always use what you know and take things from life,” Ms. Clark told a Montreal radio station in 1995. “So, sure, I think there is some of me in Regan.”


Ms. Clark didn’t set out to follow her mother’s literary career. She aspired to become an actress. Ms. Clark found her spark as a writer while helping type the final versions of some of her mother’s manuscripts in the 1970s.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/carol-higgins-clark-murder-mystery-novelist-with-dash-of-humor-dies-at-66/ar-AA1cGzjl

[CentralMass]

1. Don Imus used to have both Clark's on to discuss their books.

You could tell that they had a good mother daughter bond and were and interesting pair. 66 is too young. May sh rest in peace

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2. I never heard of appendix cancer.

You’d think the doctors could have removed it when they found cancer. Of course, there obviously is more to it. Rest in peace.

[TwilightZone]

3. The cancer had more than likely already spread.

If it originated in the appendix and spread to other organs, removing the appendix wouldn't solve the problem, of course.

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4. I read her mom's books, but not hers.