After two members of the Settlers' Club die of suspicious deaths, the clubs' president asks his friend Regan Riley who is in N.Y. for a crime conference, to help. The dead club members promised to donate valuable diamonds to the club but the diamonds are now missing, the book is great, it keeps you guessing until the very end about who commited the murder(if a murder even was commited).

Fleeced was a waste of my money. It was very slow, uneventful, and dull. The characters had nothing to say. In her other Reagan Reilly mysteries, Ms. Clark writes the characters very vibrantly. They are full of jokes and life. She must have rushed through it or something. If you want to read a real mystery, read "Daddy's Little Girl" by her mother, Mary Higgins Clark. I don't think that Ms. Clark the younger will ever reach her mother's caliber.

Fleeced is how I feel. I've read all of this lady's books and I keep hoping she will mature into someone of a similar talent as her mother. With this book I give up! Cardboard characters with cutsey-pie names and a total absence of plot combine to make this a waste of time and money. This is definitely somone who would not be published if it were not for Mommy.

I am a fan of Carol Higgins Clark and Mary Higgins Clark, but I was pretty disappointed with this book. While I enjoy Carol's humor and her quirky characters and plot lines, she went a bit over the top with this storyline. Stuffed sheep with diamonds in their eyes? Competitors trying to sabotage a butlering school? Ugh. Lots of loose ends at the end too.

I feel like I got fleeced into buying this book and I only paid $1.00 at Half Price Books. I still believe I was taken.Don't waste your money or especially your time on this garbage.

Carol (no relation) Higgins Clark is no match for her mother. This was a good idea for a plot, but very badly written. Characters are shallow and dialogue totally predictable. Everything falls conveniently into place with no subtlety whatsoever.