The Strange and Deadly Portraits of Bryony Gray

The Strange and Deadly Portraits of Bryony Gray
by E. Latimer
New York, Tundra Books, 2018. 322 p.

Bryony Gray has a gift. She can paint the most beautiful, realistic portraits in London. The wealthy line up to have the fourteen-year-old girl paint their families. However, something strange begins to happen to these well-established British families. Sometime after their new portraits arrive, the people go missing. Bryony, who has been forced to live in her uncle's attic and paint tirelessly to grant him higher social status, breaks out of the only home she knows. She teams up with the odd brother and sister duo who live next door in hopes of finding out why her paintings are cursed. Could it run in the family?

This chilling and eerie retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray will have you sitting on the edge of your seat. The vivid imagery and solid, classically British themes are sure to captivate your eager middle grade readers.

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