The Christmas Thief & other stories: Three delightful stories for the Christmas Season!

by Mary Higgins Clark

Steal yourself away this winter with a collection of festive mysteries from the Queen of Suspense and international bestseller, Mary Higgins Clark.

The Christmas Thief

When someone steals a ninety-foot Christmas tree on its way to Rockefeller Center, Alvirah Meehan, lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, must track it down. He knows the tree is irreplaceable. But he doesn’t know that, hidden in a hole in the tree’s trunk, is a fortune in priceless gems…
 
Dashing through the Snow

The quiet town of Branscombe is famous for its annual Yuletide Festival of Joy. But joy is in short supply this Christmas season, when a local man is cheated out of a winning $160 million lottery ticket, and then vanishes. It’s up to Alvirah to figure out where the missing man is…and who wound up with his ticket.
 
Silent Night

A little boy named Brian is the only witness to a crime: a pickpocket stealing a precious family heirloom from his mother. Brian takes matters into his own hands and follows the thief into New York’s labyrinthine subway system, determined to get the heirloom back, as he believes it will cure his seriously ill father. But it’s not long before Brian, his mother and the thief become part of an extraordinary story that will teach them the true meaning of Christmas.

Each of these stories is a delightful, Christmassy treat, perfect reading for cold winter nights.

Genres: Christmas, Mystery

584 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

About the author

The #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark has written thirty-eight suspense novels, four collections of short stories, a his­torical novel, a memoir, and two children’s books. With bestselling author Alafair Burke she wrote the Under Suspicion series. With her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, she has coauthored five more suspense novels. Her sister-in-law is the also author Mary Jane Clark.

Clark’s books have sold more than 100 million copies in the United States alone. Her books are beloved around the world and made her an international bestseller many times over.

Reviews

[Joy Hinson · Rating 1 out of 5]

Twee stories full of misprints and mid-spelling. Very poor editing spoiling otherwise exceptionally undemanding moralistic drivel

[Jude · Rating 2 out of 5]

Many type errors in this

[Ceri · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this 3 stories in one Christmas feast.

All of the stories were quite predictable, and were the literary equivalent of a Hallmark Christmas film. There were a lot of coincidences, many conveniences and a lot of the plot points were very contrived.
However, they felt like a big mug of hot chocolate with marshmallows and cream and I very much enjoyed them.

One thing that really irritated me was the amount of errors and typos in the last story - I refuse to believe this book has been through any sort of editing as the sheer amount of typos was ridiculous.

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed the first two of the stories in this big volume but not the last one. As other readers have pointed out they are very predictable but I liked that in the first two and the fact that the characters were the same through both books.
The last of the three stories however I found really boring. It had different characters in but I found the whole plot really strung out and not very inspiring.

[Stuart · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the book version of Channel 5 Christmas films in November/December each year, A bit of mystery, a bigger bit of romance and of course Christmas. I much preferred the third story though oddly it was full of typos. This pulled the trio into a 3*.

[Claire Robinson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy reading, cosy mysteries that were mostly quite enjoyable. However, the third story was ABSOLUTELY FULL of typos and completely incorrect words that skewed the meaning of sentences. Was it written with voice-to-text? Did no one edit this?? It really annoyed me and was a big let down, hence the 3 stars.

[chlorinda naish · Rating 5 out of 5]

At Christmas time!

First story wasn't so good, second story was better and like the three bears the third story was very good! Gripping thriller, hoping that the boys Dad didn't die, and that Brian the "dork "was found, all ended happily at Christmas night mass.

[Leanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent stories

These are amazing festive stories the only problem is how it's been translated to kindle there are sadly a lot of spelling mistakes and wrong words in. Nothing wrong with the writing and the authors are amazing it's sad that the kindle version has let them down.

[Nicole West · Rating 4 out of 5]

Three lighhearted Christmas Detective Stories.

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

3 fabulous crime stories based around Christmas.

[HILARY M · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gripping storylines

Excellent stories but too many typos. Needs checking over. Very clever plots and certainly super stories for the Christmas period.