The Christmas thief: a novel
Mary Higgins Clark, America's Queen of Suspense, and her daughter, bestselling mystery writer Carol Higgins Clark, have again joined forces to create a suspenseful and humorous holiday tale.
Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, teams up with private investigator Regan Reilly to solve another Christmas mystery. In Deck the Halls, they rescued Regan's kidnapped father. This time they get in the middle of a case involving a beautiful eighty-foot blue spruce that has been chosen to spend the holidays as Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree. The folks who picked the tree don't have a clue that attached to one of its branches is a flask chock-full of priceless diamonds that Packy Noonan, a scam artist just released from prison, had hidden there over twelve years ago.
An excited Packy breaks his parole and heads to Stowe, Vermont, to reclaim his loot. Once there, he is horrified to discover that his special tree will be heading to New York City the next morning. With a bumbling crew consisting of Jo-Jo, Benny, and an unsuccessful poet, Milo, he knows he has to act fast.
What Packy does not know is that Alvirah and Regan are on a weekend trip to Stowe with Alvirah's husband, Willy; Regan's fiancé, Jack; Regan's parents, Luke and Nora; and Alvirah's friend Opal, a lottery winner who lost all her winnings in Packy's scam. On Monday morning when they're supposed to head home, they learn that the tree is missing, Packy Noonan may be in the vicinity, and Opal has disappeared.
From two of America's beloved storytellers, The Christmas Thief is filled with suspense, comic characters, and holiday cheer, and is sure to delight its readers.
Christian life -- Fiction
Christmas
Christmas -- Fiction
Christmas stories
Christmas trees
Christmas trees -- Fiction
Cozy
Cozy -- Mystery & Detective
Downloadable audio books
Electronic books
Fiction
Holidays
Holidays -- FICTION
Meehan, Alvirah (Fictitious character)
Meehan, Alvirah (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Mystery fiction
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Reilly, Regan (Fictitious character)
Reilly, Regan (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Rockefeller Center -- Fiction
Stealing
Stealing -- Fiction
Suspense
Vermont -- Fiction
Women private investigators
Women private investigators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
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Grouping Title | christmas thief |
Grouping Author | mary higgins clark |
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Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2021-02-28 04:32:07AM |
Last Indexed | 2021-02-28 04:57:56AM |
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series | Regan Reilly mysteries | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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subject_facet | Christian life -- Fiction Christmas -- Fiction Christmas stories Christmas trees -- Fiction Cozy -- Mystery & Detective Downloadable audio books Electronic books Holidays -- FICTION Meehan, Alvirah (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Mystery fiction New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction Reilly, Regan (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Rockefeller Center -- Fiction Stealing -- Fiction Vermont -- Fiction Women private investigators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | The Christmas thief : a novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | The Christmas Thief A Novel The Christmas Thief A Novel [eBook] Clark, Mary Higgins The Christmas thief : a novel / Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark The Christmas thief [electronic resource] / Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | The Christmas thief | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | a novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Christian life Christmas Christmas trees Cozy Fiction Holidays Meehan, Alvirah (Fictitious character) Reilly, Regan (Fictitious character) Stealing Suspense Women private investigators |