The face on the wall : a Homer Kelly mystery

Annie's dreams of a thirty-five foot-wall on which to paint her masterpiece, a painting thick with fairy tales, come to a terrible end when her tenants' eight-year-old son is found murdered beneath her beautiful wall.

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"In Massachusetts, retired detective Homer Kelly and his historian wife, Mary, investigate the death of a boy who had his head crushed. The work of an adult or another child?"
"Children's illustrator Annie Swann is happy with the new wing on her home where she can finally paint the mural she's been planning for years. But someone keeps defacing it, no matter how many times she paints over it, and then she finds the son of her tenant dead under the mural wall. It's up to her uncle, sleuth Homer Kelly to save Annie and her beloved wall."
"While trying to start a new life, Homer’s niece uncovers a murder 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."
"Annie's dreams of a thirty-five foot-wall on which to paint her masterpiece, a painting thick with fairy tales, come to a terrible end when her tenants' eight-year-old son is found murdered beneath her beautiful wall."@en
"While trying to start a new life, Homer's niece uncovers a murder. 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."@en