The Christmas Thief / Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark / 224 pages / Winter Holiday Themed Book

This quick Christmas read features a stolen Christmas tree - the one destined for Rockefeller Center in New York.  The tree unfortunately was the hiding place for a flask of diamonds stolen by Packy Noonan.  Packy has just been released from prison, plans to collect the diamonds, and flee the country for warmer climes.  Much to his dismay, a jealous neighbor has decided to cut branches from the chosen tree so that it will be rejected in favor of one of his trees.  The setting is Stowe, Vermont and the forecast is a delightful suspense story filled with comic characters and holiday cheer.