What readers are saying . . . 
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"An excellent who-done-it; believable characters and a plot that keeps you guessing. Will definitely continue with this series."
--- Robert H. on Amazon.

"There’s much to learn in reading Rick Homan’s book Dark Mural. First, keep food and drinks close by so you don’t have to put it down because you won’t want to."
--- Phillip Donahue on Amazon.

". . .  I enjoyed learning about the small communities in rural Ohio that led to small towns and colleges."
--- Ria Darling on Amazon.

Dark Mural  by
Rick Homan

Art history becomes a matter of life and death.

Nicole Tang Noonan, an art historian from San Francisco, gets her first job at a small college in rural Ohio. She hopes to launch an academic career, but when one of her students is murdered, and another is accused of the crime, she needs to find the real killer.

As her investigation brings her closer to identifying the murderer, and her study of a mural awakens the past, colleagues shun her, the local sheriff threatens her, and she wonders if she’ll live long enough to give a midterm exam.

​If you enjoy art, an academic setting, and a female amateur sleuth who just won’t quit, you will enjoy reading Dark Mural, the first in a series of traditional mysteries.