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Contributor(s): Higgins Clark, Carol (Author)

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ISBN: 0446517631     ISBN-13: 9780446517638
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 1998
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Annotation: Regan Reilly plans to spend her Fourth of July week vacationing in the Hamptons at her parents' home and also with her best friend, Kit, who has a share in a group house. A last-minute phone call, however, casts Regan's trip in a new light. Brigid O'Neill, a rising country star, has been getting frightening "love notes" and she hires Regan as her bodyguard for a Fourth of July concert in Southampton. Brigid plans to play a fiddle given to her in Ireland and said to have magic powers. She later learns the rest of its legend - whoever takes it out of Ireland will have an accident or face death. Brigid and her band are invited to stay at Chappy Tinka's oceanfront compound. Tinka, heir to a thumbtack fortune, and Bettina, his ditzy wife, are social climbers trying to get on the Hamptons "A" list. At Chappy's castle, Regan encounters a cast of characters including Chappy's bumbling sidekick and accomplice, Duke; Bettina's live-in guru, "Peace Man"; and a feng shui specialist obsessed with rearranging furniture. A guest found floating face-down in a pool at Chappy's welcoming party for Brigid is only the first in a series of ominous incidents. As Brigid's Fourth of July concert nears, it looks as if the cursed fiddle should be shipped back to Ireland - Express Mail! It's Regan's job to hold the curse at bay and fend off Brigid's pursuers.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Private Investigators
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 97032287
Series: Regan Reilly Mysteries (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.39" W x 9.14" L (1.19 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Cultural Region - Ireland
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Midwest
- Cultural Region - Northeast U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation - Irish
- Geographic Orientation - Missouri
- Geographic Orientation - New York
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
Features: Dust Cover
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/1997 pg. 60
Booklist 04/15/1997 pg. 1406
Publishers Weekly 12/22/1997 pg. 41
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/1998 pg. 160
Library Journal 02/01/1998 pg. 116
Library Journal 03/01/1997
Library Journal 02/01/1998
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 74511
Reading Level: 4.8   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 10.0
 
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Publisher Description:
Charming sleuth Regan Reilly conducts an up-tempo investigation in her fourth case in the increasingly popular New York Times bestselling series.

Branson, Missouri. Home of country music superstars and the starting point for Regan Reilly's latest case, as she's assigned to protect Budget, a singer whose life has been threatened. It soon becomes clear that Regan must follow her client to Ireland, where Budget is to warble in an ancient castle as part of a concert. Irish eyes aren't smiling, however, as Regan must thwart a murderer's plans and keep everyone on key in this rollicking international romp.

 
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