Carol Higgins Clark, a writer of popular suspense novels who infused the corpses-and-clues genre with doses of dark humor, died at a hospital in Los Angeles. She was 66.
, Ms. Clark’s sleuth Reilly crosses paths with one of her mother’s recurring characters, Alvirah Meehan, a lottery winner who becomes an amateur detective.
, “Weep No More, My Lady,” Ms. Clark was stunned that Meehan was killed off. Ms. Clark thought she was too interesting of a character to lose.telling her mother. “Well, I begged for Alvirah’s life and she kept her alive.”Carol Ann Higgins Clark was born on July 28, 1956, in Manhattan and raised in Washington Township in northern New Jersey. Her father, who had been a sales manager for Capital Airlines, died when she was 8.
She lived most recently in West Hollywood and was active in Los Angeles-area charities aiding homeless people and others with disabilities. She recorded a public service video supporting a foundation researching appendix cancer.
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