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A VOYA 2016 Top of the Shelf Pick This well-paced mystery offers a pleasing protagonist and a very unusual setting. Vance cleverly injects the story with a bevy of secondary characters, many of whom readers will recognize from European paintings and popular art, and humorous footnotes from a fictional art-history textbook balance the tension. Themes of trust and loyalty figure prominently in this story, which explores what it means to be a true friend. --Booklist Readers will end up learning a great deal about art history along the way . . . an inspired concept. --School Library Journal

<b>A VOYA 2016 Top of the Shelf Pick</b></p> This well-paced mystery offers a pleasing protagonist and a very unusual setting. Vance cleverly injects the story with a bevy of secondary characters, many of whom readers will recognize from European paintings and popular art, and humorous footnotes from a fictional art-history textbook balance the tension. Themes of trust and loyalty figure prominently in this story, which explores what it means to be a true friend. --<i>Booklist</i></p> Readers will end up learning a great deal about art history along the way . . . an inspired concept. --<i>School Library Journal</i></p>

This well-paced mystery offers a pleasing protagonist and a very unusual setting. Vance cleverly injects the story with a bevy of secondary characters, many of whom readers will recognize from European paintings and popular art, and humorous footnotes from a fictional art-history textbook balance the tension. Themes of trust and loyalty figure prominently in this story, which explores what it means to be a true friend. Booklist Readers will end up learning a great deal about art history along the way . . . an inspired concept. - School Library Journal

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Alexander Vance works as a multimedia designer. He is the author of the YA novels The Heartbreak Messenger and Behind the Canvas. He lives in Western New York with his family.

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