Regan and Jack Reilly return to Manhattan after a summer weekend away just as a citywide blackout strikes. Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, is called to an art gallery burglary, while Regan helps her best friend, Kit, abandoned at a comedy club by a disturbed and possibly homicidal colleague. Meanwhile, actress Lorraine Lily - recently retruned from England - discovers her estranged husband sold their loft to the Reillys. Lorraine is determined to use any means necessary to retrieve the contents of a safe hidden in the loft, for those contents could destroy her budding career. And now the Reilly loft is empty in the dark ...
Now in mass market paperback, New York Times bestselling author Carol Higgins Clark's 11th delightful mystery, this one set in Manhattan, where newlyweds Regan and Jack Reilly renovate their apartment-- a topic Carol is familiar with and can describe with insight and humor. In ZAPPED, Clark takes readers on a tour of the city they won't forget and introduces them to a wonderful cast of colorful, eccentric characters whose stories intersect in precarious and often humorous ways during one very dark and hot summer night.