Hitched (Regan Reilly Mysteries, No. 9) (U)

the Date Is Saturday, April 2. Five April Brides Discover Their Wedding Dresses Have Been Stolen. One Of The Brides Is Private Investigator Regan Reilly. Her Wedding Is In Seven Days.regan Reilly And Her Fianc , Jack No Relation Reilly -- Head Of The Nypd Major Case Squad -- Are Getting Married! Regan Had The Perfect Dress Made By Two Young Designers On Manhattan's Lower East Side. Arriving At The Bridal Salon To Pick Up Her Gown, Regan Discovers The Shop Has Been Broken Into, The Designers Bound And Gagged, And Wedding Dresses For Four Of The April Brides (her Dress Included) Are Missing. A Fifth Dress Is In Shreds On The Floor. Even Though It's A Week Before Her Wedding, Regan Gets On The Case, And In The Process She Meets An Unusual Mix Of Brides And Grooms-to-be, Or -- Perhaps Not-to-be.over At One Police Plaza, Regan's Bridegroom, Jack, Is Trying To Solve A Perplexing Series Of Bank Robberies. The Robber, Nicknamed The Drip By The Nypd Because He Always Strikes During Rainstorms, Has Been Eluding The Police For Months. Jack Is Determined To Crack The Case Before His Upcoming Nuptials.carol Higgins Clark Fuses The Two Seemingly Unrelated Mysteries With An Ingenious Twist, Taking Readers From The Streets Of New York City, To The Casinos Of Atlantic City, And Finally To That Most Popular Wedding Spot -- The One And Only Las Vegas. She Weaves A Web Of Mystery Around A Charming, Humorous Tale Of Five April Brides And The Trials And Tribulations They Face Planning Their Weddings.publishers Weeklynervous Brides May Want To Wait Until After The Wedding To Read Bestseller Clark's Winning Ninth Mystery To Feature Pi Regan Reilly (after 2005's Burned). With Her Wedding To Jack No Relation Reilly, Head Of The Nypd Major Case Squad, Only A Week Away, Regan Thinks She Has Everything Under Control. But When She Arrives To Pick Up Her Wedding Dress At Alfred And Charisse's Coutures In Little Italy, She Finds The Young Husband-and-wife Designers Bound And Gagged, A Wedding Dress Shredded On The Floor And Four Others Missing, Including Her Own. In Spite Of All She Must Do Before The Wedding, Regan Agrees To Investigate. Jack, Hoping To Solve A Big Bank Robbery Case Before Their Nuptials, Is More Than Supportive. To Regan's Surprise, Not All The Brides-to-be Who've Lost Their Gowns Are That Distraught. Regan's And Jack's Cases Convincingly Intertwine As The Sleuthing Trail Leads Them From The Streets Of New York To Las Vegas. With Her Usual Cast Of Quirky Characters, Clark's Lighthearted Romp Will Keep Readers Guessing Who Will And Who Won't Make It To The Altar. (apr.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.