The Muralist

MURDER MEETS STREET ARTStreet gods and goddesses preside over Philadelphia. From their places in the scenes of over 6,000 murals, these muses embody athletes and activists, poets and preachers, lovers and heroes. They remember history. They celebrate culture. And in The Muralist, they inspire a serial killer.To catch the murderer — a figure that stages victims in mural scenes — a detective team must learn the history of the Delaware River waterfront, navigate homeless encampments of opioid addicts, and unriddle clues in murals throughout the city."Carrie Hagen’s success with tense narrative in the chilling true-crime book We Is Got The Kidnapping That Changed America transfers deftly to fiction in The Muralist with a sensational bolt of action that creates an exciting, disturbing, and satisfying conclusion." — Minerva Rising