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Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
3.0

Read for Popsugar: A mystery or thriller

I think I would have eaten this up as a kid - it's giving Westing Game, it's giving Eleventh Hour - and I would have poured over the illustrations trying to figure out the secrets. As a grown-up, I still enjoyed it, but was less impressed that a lot of the mystery solving relied on coincidences, dreams, and intuition rather than true problem-solving.