I just finished Masterpiece by Elise Broach. It’s a fun mystery with some art history thrown in. Marvin is a beetle; he and his family live a quiet, uncomplicated life in the Pompaday’s kitchen cabinet periodically helping the family solve problems (unbeknownst to the Pompadays)… like fishing out a contact lens from the bathroom sink and tightening wires in the microwave so the clock works. Marvin is drawn to son James who seems a bit shy. When James receives a pen and ink set from his father for his birthday things get interesting. Marvin discovers he’s an artist whose work is reminiscent of Durer; James takes credit (would anyone believe a beetle did it?) and all of the sudden the new friends are thrown into an art theft case involving the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Getty Museum in California. Elise Broach has a way of making complicated things accessible and interesting. Masterpiece is no different.
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