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The Mystery of the Third Lucretia (Kari + Lucas Mysteries #1)
by
Susan Runholt (Goodreads Author)
If it hadn'�t been for Lucas'�s photographic memory, they might not have remembered the man. It had been almost a year since she and Kari had noticed him copying the famous Rembrandt painting in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. But now in the National Gallery in London, they�'re sure it'�s the same guy, copying another Rembrandt. What is going on?
The International Heral
...moreHardcover, 278 pages
Published
April 17th 2008
by Viking Juvenile
(first published January 1st 2008)
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Do you like a good mystery, Esteemed Reader? A hint of danger and some heart-pounding adventure? Unless you have some sort of special heart condition or a neurological disorder, I’ll assume that you do. And therefore you are going to love Susan Runholt’s Kari + Lucas Mysteries. The ninja loves them and is looking forward to future additions.
So we’re going to change things up a little bit this week. Instead of reviewing one book, I’m going to review two books in one post. Why? Well, I don’t revie...more
So we’re going to change things up a little bit this week. Instead of reviewing one book, I’m going to review two books in one post. Why? Well, I don’t revie...more
Aug 29, 2009
Gaby
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
detective-and-mystery,
ya-fiction
"This is the story of how two teenagers from Minnesota lived a tale of adventure involving a woman from ancient Rome, a seventeenth-century painter, forgery and murder, abduction and rescue, disguises and deductions, two continents, three museums, four countries, a criminal hideaway, and two nuns from Amsterdam's famous Quarter."
-The Mystery of the Third Lucretia by Susan Runholt
I was intrigued by this book from the start. Books with museums, child detectives, art fraud and adventures have alway...more
-The Mystery of the Third Lucretia by Susan Runholt
I was intrigued by this book from the start. Books with museums, child detectives, art fraud and adventures have alway...more
What happens when 14 year old girlfriends, Kari and Lucas, show a little too much curiosity around a mysterious artist in a Minneapolis art museum? What happens is an international mystery and intrigue happening around them. Kari and Lucas are delightful characters who are fun, smart, talented and curious. Their adventures take them overseas when Kari’s mother takes a job that allows them to travel with her.
The dialog is spot-on for the age of the characters, and I could almost hear their voice...more
The dialog is spot-on for the age of the characters, and I could almost hear their voice...more
I got onto The Mystery of the Third Lucretia by Susan Runholt courtesy of the Follow That Blurb Reading Challenge. This is a middle grade mystery which stars two fourteen year old girls who are best friends and interested in art. Kari Sundgren has a mom who writes for a magazine which sends her on assignments to other countries. Lucas Stickney comes from a wealthy family who doesn't mind if she flits off on these journeys with Kari and her mom. The mystery begins when the girls are at the Minnea...more
Have you ever been to an art museum and seen aspiring artists trying to copy their favorite paintings? That’s exactly what best friends Kari and Lucas (she’s a girl, yes) witness on their trip to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts except this guy is really good at it. He’s suspicious too, shooing people away from his secluded spot in the corner where he paints. A year later when the girls visit an art museum in London, the same mysterious man is working on the same painting … but while wearing a...more
Sep 10, 2009
Jennifer Wardrip
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
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Reviewed by Jennifer Rummel for TeensReadToo.com
Kari's mother works for a magazine that sends her to Europe at least once a year to write stories. Usually, they manage to bring along Kari's best friend, Lucas. Together the girls sometimes play tourist while Kari's mother works. Occasionally, they help her with her articles.
One trip to London proves to become a very different sort of trip than any of them imagined. While at the National Gallery, Kari and Lucas see an artist working near a Rembran...more
Kari's mother works for a magazine that sends her to Europe at least once a year to write stories. Usually, they manage to bring along Kari's best friend, Lucas. Together the girls sometimes play tourist while Kari's mother works. Occasionally, they help her with her articles.
One trip to London proves to become a very different sort of trip than any of them imagined. While at the National Gallery, Kari and Lucas see an artist working near a Rembran...more
What a fun mystery! Can't miss ingredients: exotic locations, art theft, and a nicely drawn friendship. The mystery worked really well and I especially enjoyed the relationships between the two girls and also the relationship between Kari and her mom. Can't wait for the next installment! Fans of the Balliett mysteries will love this.
I read this quarter 3:
It was a very very good book. It had every thing you would want: likable charictors, mystery, and a horrible bad guy. It was so good. It got me addicted on the first chapter.
Kari and Lucas are BFF and go on lots of trips together. This is because Kari's mom is a writer for the news paper and goes all over. Lucas's parents are mean rich slobs. (Lucas is a girl) Lucas has a photo graphic memory, so when they see a guy at two different museums a year apart she recognizes him....more
It was a very very good book. It had every thing you would want: likable charictors, mystery, and a horrible bad guy. It was so good. It got me addicted on the first chapter.
Kari and Lucas are BFF and go on lots of trips together. This is because Kari's mom is a writer for the news paper and goes all over. Lucas's parents are mean rich slobs. (Lucas is a girl) Lucas has a photo graphic memory, so when they see a guy at two different museums a year apart she recognizes him....more
Kari and Lucas realize something fishy is going on when they see the same man wearing a disguise, painting Rembrandts in two different galleries half way around the world. They decide to go undercover and investigate themselves as no adult would take two American teenagers seriously.
I love the concept of this book. It was like a modern-day Nancy Drew mystery except with travel and art. I loved the characters, they were well developed and Runholt depicted a teenage girl so perfectly, nuances, te...more
I love the concept of this book. It was like a modern-day Nancy Drew mystery except with travel and art. I loved the characters, they were well developed and Runholt depicted a teenage girl so perfectly, nuances, te...more
A really thoughtful and intelligent book for young teens, mid teens and adults, if you like following bright sassy kids on their adventures. I do and I learn something when i read Runholt's stuff. You will too.
In The Mystery of the Third Lucretia, Kari and Lucas use disguises during their surveillance so that their suspect will (hopefully) not notice them lurking around.
The girls are in London with Kari’s mom, a teen magazine journalist. They have tagged along to do some sightseeing but also stumble across an international art forgery mystery. I liked their story because they do a lot of legwork and piecing together clues - more like what I would expect a real detective to do. There are no fancy lab t...more
The girls are in London with Kari’s mom, a teen magazine journalist. They have tagged along to do some sightseeing but also stumble across an international art forgery mystery. I liked their story because they do a lot of legwork and piecing together clues - more like what I would expect a real detective to do. There are no fancy lab t...more
The Mystery of the Third Lucretia
Susan Runholt
Puffin Books/Penguin Young Readers
345 Hudson St; New York, NY 10014
www.penguin.com/sleuth
978-0-670-06252-2, $6.99, 2008
This book is about two 14 year old girls who are best friends, Kari Sundgren and Lucas Stickney. It starts off with the girls at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Museum and they first notice a man with an easel painting a Rembrandt painting. Kari being the curious one leans in for a closer look and the man shouts go away. His action...more
Susan Runholt
Puffin Books/Penguin Young Readers
345 Hudson St; New York, NY 10014
www.penguin.com/sleuth
978-0-670-06252-2, $6.99, 2008
This book is about two 14 year old girls who are best friends, Kari Sundgren and Lucas Stickney. It starts off with the girls at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Museum and they first notice a man with an easel painting a Rembrandt painting. Kari being the curious one leans in for a closer look and the man shouts go away. His action...more
Reading this was like spending a week with Susan traveling...but without having to leave my couch. How great is that?!! (Plus I could visit Minneapolis and St. Paul without flying on a plane....ahhh!)
I picked this book up when I was working at the children's library. The cover art looked very appealing, and the premise promising. It sucked me in after a few pages, and I found myself not wanting it to end.
The two heroines make a formidable team as they try to uncover the mystery surrounding a strange disguised man who they run into at no less than two art museums spanning two continents.
Part teen lit, part mystery, this book was an engaging read. Even though it's classified as children's/YA f...more
The two heroines make a formidable team as they try to uncover the mystery surrounding a strange disguised man who they run into at no less than two art museums spanning two continents.
Part teen lit, part mystery, this book was an engaging read. Even though it's classified as children's/YA f...more
I really need to stop reading mediocre mysteries because I have to see what happens even if I don't really like the characters or the writing. This one wasn't too bad, but I felt like there was way too much tell and not enough show. While I'm usually happy to suspend disbelief, I couldn't get over how perfectly arranged everything seemed with the girls and their families and how it allowed them to do certain things, and I really didn't get the out-of-the-blue summaries of romantic interests off-...more
Fun teen mystery. Kari and Lucas (girls) are best friends in Minnesota. They see a man copying a Rembrandt at the art Museum in MN. Later they see the same man in disguise copying a Rembrandt in at the London Art Gallery. They start their own detecting trying to view what he is drawing. Finally when a previously unknown Rembrandt is going to be unveiled in Amsterdam they persuade Kari's magazine writer mom they must go to see it. Great description of the art museums and the countries they visit....more
This book was alright...there's nothing spectacular about it. The mystery is fun but becomes a bit cumbersome after no thrilling developments occur during the second half of the book. The word "meep" also started to really grate on my nerves. Every time one of the characters said this I wanted to throw them out a ten-story high window. Honestly, I think I prefer actual expletives to substitutes that are reminiscent of the Road Runner. But I digress. The end did get slightly exciting, but I was h...more
International intrigue, disguises, art museums, and a red light district, what do all of these have in common? They are all part of the mystery adventure for two 14-year-old girls, Kari Sundgen and Lucas Stickney.
Kari and Lucas are best friends who are drawn together by their love of art. One afternoon, they are strolling through the Minneapolis Institute of Art when they notice a young man standing by an easel in the Rembrandt Room painting a copy of one of Rembrant's Lucretia paintings. Kari l...more
Kari and Lucas are best friends who are drawn together by their love of art. One afternoon, they are strolling through the Minneapolis Institute of Art when they notice a young man standing by an easel in the Rembrandt Room painting a copy of one of Rembrant's Lucretia paintings. Kari l...more
I wanted to like this book, I really did. However, it was just okay. I liked Kari and Lucas, but the writing frequently took me out of the story. Runholt tends to explain what is about to happen, then it actually happens. I'd much prefer for the action to just happen without any preview or warning.
I love YA/MG mysteries and highly recommend The Red Blazer Girls series by Michael D. Beil. The characters are great, the mysteries are layered and intriguing and they are well written. I may read the...more
I love YA/MG mysteries and highly recommend The Red Blazer Girls series by Michael D. Beil. The characters are great, the mysteries are layered and intriguing and they are well written. I may read the...more
I liked many things about this intense art mystery: A strong, independent, fun, yet realistic mom plays a key part in the story; the book travels to some great locations (London, Chicago, Paris, Amsterdam); and the art discussions are some of the best I've read in my middle grade/young adult reading. My only beef is that the book's language seems geared toward the 9-to-12-year-old, but some of the themes (rape, prostitution) seem a little much. Though the mystery is good and I love the art, I'm...more
What a fun charming book. I picked it up because the author lives in my neighborhood in St. Paul and I wanted to see if it was appropriate for my nine year old niece. I rarely read young adult novels, but this one was better written than many an adult novel I've read recently.
The dialogue accurately captured the way a young girl would speak and think. The descriptions made me want to head back to London and Amsterdam.
The mystery is fun and holds one's interest. I look forward to presenting thi...more
The dialogue accurately captured the way a young girl would speak and think. The descriptions made me want to head back to London and Amsterdam.
The mystery is fun and holds one's interest. I look forward to presenting thi...more
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I've been a voracious reader since I was a little girl. I never leave the house without a book & it's a great big crisis if I finish my book before I have to do something like ride BART. I like a lot of the same kinds of books now that I did when I was kid - fantasy, fairy tales, & mysteries.
One of the hardest things when I was growing up was finding books with strong heroines. I can count the number of books that fit that bill for me on one hand: Harriet the Spy, From the Mixed-up Files...more
One of the hardest things when I was growing up was finding books with strong heroines. I can count the number of books that fit that bill for me on one hand: Harriet the Spy, From the Mixed-up Files...more
This is a nifty book. It's smart, funny, fierce, and has great characters and locations. The narrator's voice is very current in tone without being elaborately hip (a dead giveaway of a grown-up author who's trying too hard or who's selling her audience short). I would heartily recommend it for any teen interested in art, travel, books about friendship, or even intrigue.
However, although there was nothing wrong with the book, it didn't hold my interest as an adult reader. I don't think this mean...more
However, although there was nothing wrong with the book, it didn't hold my interest as an adult reader. I don't think this mean...more
When 14-year-olds, Kari and Lucas notice the same man copying Rembrandt paintings in art museums in Minneapolis and London, they suspect that he is up to a no good art forgery scheme. Using disguises and their own drawing and painting skills, they work to uncover what he is up to and who he is. When people connected to the paintings start mysteriously dying, though, they begin to wonder if they are going to be in big trouble. A fun summer read.
A great mystery for younger teenage girls, it follows 2 14 year olds artists, traveling with one mother through Europe. As artists themselves, they like to visit art museums, however they keep running into the same rude man that has set up his easel near Rembrandt paintings. When they realize that he uses costumes to look different at every musuem, they realize something is not on the up and up and become intrigued.
Summary: While traveling in London, Paris, and Amsterdam, fourteen-year-old best friends Kari and Lucas solve an international art forgery mystery.
Good Nancy Drew Lite for the preteen set. Though the mystery is predictable, the friendship and voice of the two girls is good and contemporary. The author manages to pull in art history and travelog info on London and Amsterdam in painlessly incidental ways.
Good Nancy Drew Lite for the preteen set. Though the mystery is predictable, the friendship and voice of the two girls is good and contemporary. The author manages to pull in art history and travelog info on London and Amsterdam in painlessly incidental ways.
This is actually one of the mystery books I can stand! It's normal for a really long time, following and weaving a story through Camellia's clothes, starting in London to Paris and to the final showdown in Amsterdam. Lucas and Kari and Gillian (Kari's Mom) and off on an adventure to catch the forgery in the arts. This book is recommended for people who (girls) hate mystery!
The Mystery of the Third Lucretia is a very well-written YA mystery/thriller. Runholt infuses her story with plenty of art history and interesting geographical facts as well as immersing the reader in the adventures of her two very likeable herorines Kari and Lucas (yup, a girl). I look forward to reading more books in this delightful series.
This was okay. I didn't love it but wasn't completely annoyed by it. It's presented as a realistic fiction mystery but felt highly unrealistic. The characters were two-dimensional and pretty uninteresting overall. I don't think teens will like it very well; it's more appropriate as a tween read.
Jan 05, 2011
Emmet O'Neal Library- Children's Department
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
mystery
This is a really great mystery about two inquisitive, smart girls that travel the world and solve a mystery along the way. Gotta love a mystery that includes traveling to places like London and Amsterdam. The first book in Kari + Lucas Mystery Series. Great for fans of Nancy Drew!
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