The Christmas Thief

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.