SINOPSIS

Title 
                           : Chasing Vermeer

Author                        : Blue Balliet

Illustrated by             : Brett Helquist

Publisher                    : Scholastic

City & year                 : New York, 2005

Colation                      : 254
pages, illustration; 20 cm

On
a warm October night in Chicago, three deliveries were made in the same neighborhood.
A plump tangerine moon had just risen over Lake Michigan. The doorbell had been
rung at each place, and an envelope left propped outside. Each front door was
opened on to an empty street. Each of the three people who lived in those homes
lived alone, and each had a hard time falling asleep that night. The letter
about asking help in indentifying a crime.

This
book is about murder in that city, as soon a the FBI had finish their
questioning, Mrs.Sharpe, Calder and Petra got together again for tea in
Mrs.Sharpe’s kitchen. People sometimes twisted what was actually in front of
them to fit what they thought should be there, never even realizing they were
doing it. People like to see what they were supposed to see, and find what they
were supposed to find. Calder in his research, found that Johannes Vermeer had
collapsed, quite suddenly, in December 1675. He had been buried in the Oude
kerk. It was thought that he died several days earlier.

This
book is full of unexpected plot twists, the storyline is very complex, yet the
book is presented in a narrative style that is very detailed.