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Carol Higgins Clark, an actress in several television movies and best-selling author of the Regan Reilly series, died on June 12. She was 66.

Her family told The New York Times that she died in Los Angeles following a battle with appendix cancer.

Clark, the daughter of best-selling suspense author Mary Higgins Clark, who died in 2020 at the age of 92, was born on July 28, 1956, in New York City. After graduating from Mount Holyoke College in 1978, she went on to study acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse.

It was later that she found her way to becoming an author. Some of her most successful novels were centered around private investigator Regan Reilly, including Decked, which was nominated for the Agatha Award in 1992 and the Anthony Award for best first novel. Several of the books in the series were also made into TV movies, which she appeared in.

She also co-wrote several Christmas-themed novels with her late mother.

Carol Higgins Clark, author of the best-selling Regan Reilly series and an actress in several television series and made-for-tv movies, died June 12 in New York of appendix cancer. She was 66.

Clark was the daughter of best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark, who died in 2020. Mother and daughter collaborated on four novels.

In 1975, Carol Higgins Clark starred in Who Killed Amy Lang, which aired on Good Morning America. She also performed in Wendy Wasserstein‘s play Uncommon Women and played the lead in the film A Cry in the Night, based on a novel by her mother.

Her career highlight was an 18-novel series starring Private Investigator Regan Reilly, several of them made into television movies. She appeared in each one.

Her first novel was published in 1992, when she was 36. For that book, she was nominated for the 1992 Agatha Award and the Anthony Award for Best First Novel.

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