The Face on the Wall (The Homer Kelly Mysteries: Bk. 13)

By: Jane Langton

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Synopsis: Scholar/sleuth Homer Kelly comes to the aid of his artist niece, who&’s implicated in a death, in this &“taut, suspenseful, and absorbing&” whodunit (Kirkus Reviews). Life has not always been fair to Annie Swann. A bad marriage sullied her youth, but since her divorce she has made enough money illustrating children&’s books to add a wing to her house. The new addition&’s focal point will be a thirty-five-foot blank wall, where Annie plans an elaborate mural of the fairy tale characters who pay her bills. But as she paints, mysterious markings appear on the mural: first splotches, then a woman&’s face, ringed with blond hair and covered in blood. It seems to point to the disappearance of Pearl Small, a Harvard student who took classes from Annie&’s aunt Mary. As Mary and her husband, professor and ex-cop Homer Kelly, look for Pearl, Annie continues painting, unaware that with each brushstroke, she marks her wall with another layer of evil.