The Christmas Thief : A Novel
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The Christmas Thief
Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark
Simon & Schuster, Nov 2004, $21.00, 204 pp.
ISBN 0743271556
Packy Noonan is a natural born con artist who is able to talk people into investing over 100 million in his phony shipping company. He and his two confederates were about to cash out and leave the country when the scam was revealed. His two confederates escaped but Packy was caught and sent to jail. After serving twelve years he is freed and heads to Stowe, Vermont to get the diamonds that are hidden in an eighty foot blue spruce tree belonging to his one time employees Lenny & Viddy. He doesn’t know that the tree is due to be cut down and taken to Rockefeller Center where it will be seen by millions of people.
Opal, one of the people who lost money in Packy’s scam, is also going to Stowe for the weekend, along with Alviah Meshim and her husband, Megan Reilly, her fiancée and her parents. Opal spots Packy’s cohort Benny and winds up kidnapped. When Packy and company go to cut down the spruce they don’t realize that Lenny’s neighbor Wayne already found the diamonds. Packy is determined to get his jewels or die trying while Opal’s friends search for her before something dreadful happens.
Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter Carol Higgins Clark have written a holiday mystery that is entertaining and at times funny in a sardonic way. The Clarks put the readers in the holiday spirit with THE CHRISTMAS THIEF, a novel that stars characters from other books written by these talented authors. Readers will feel sorry for Packy who sees his dreams of getting rich slowly evaporate forcing a final Hail Mary.
Harriet Klausner
Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark
Simon & Schuster, Nov 2004, $21.00, 204 pp.
ISBN 0743271556
Packy Noonan is a natural born con artist who is able to talk people into investing over 100 million in his phony shipping company. He and his two confederates were about to cash out and leave the country when the scam was revealed. His two confederates escaped but Packy was caught and sent to jail. After serving twelve years he is freed and heads to Stowe, Vermont to get the diamonds that are hidden in an eighty foot blue spruce tree belonging to his one time employees Lenny & Viddy. He doesn’t know that the tree is due to be cut down and taken to Rockefeller Center where it will be seen by millions of people.
Opal, one of the people who lost money in Packy’s scam, is also going to Stowe for the weekend, along with Alviah Meshim and her husband, Megan Reilly, her fiancée and her parents. Opal spots Packy’s cohort Benny and winds up kidnapped. When Packy and company go to cut down the spruce they don’t realize that Lenny’s neighbor Wayne already found the diamonds. Packy is determined to get his jewels or die trying while Opal’s friends search for her before something dreadful happens.
Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter Carol Higgins Clark have written a holiday mystery that is entertaining and at times funny in a sardonic way. The Clarks put the readers in the holiday spirit with THE CHRISTMAS THIEF, a novel that stars characters from other books written by these talented authors. Readers will feel sorry for Packy who sees his dreams of getting rich slowly evaporate forcing a final Hail Mary.
Harriet Klausner
