THE FIRST IN THE INCREDIBLE MERRILY WATKINS SERIES
Merrily Watkins: late thirties, single mum, parish priest. Cosy? I don't think so...
The new vicar had never wanted a picture-postcard parish - or a huge and haunted vicarage. Nor had she wanted to walk into a dispute over a controversial play about a seventeenth-century clergyman accused of witchcraft... a story that certain long-established families would rather remained obscure.
But this is Ledwardine, steeped in cider and secrets...
A paradise of cobbled streets and timber-framed houses. And also - as Merrily Watkins and her teenage daughter, Jane, discover - a village where horrific murder is a tradition that spans centuries.
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Ancient history, violent deaths, feuds, intrigues and murder. A most original sleuth. - The Times
First rate crime with demons that go bump in the night. - Daily Mail
Compassionate, original and sharply contemporary, Rickman's crime series is one of the best around. - Spectator
Few writers blend the ancient and supernatural with the modern and criminal better than Rickman. - Guardian
Rickman's writing [is] spooky and indirect, elegantly crafted but always a sense... that you've missed something you should have seen. - New York Review Of Books
A wonderful, enthralling read. Huge tensions. All too believable. You are there with poor Merrily every step of the way. - Daily Express
First class – Guardian
One of the best – Spectator
Compelling – Mail on Sunday
First rate – Daily Mail
Wonderful – Daily Express
Terrific – the Times
Wonderfully original – Daily Telegraph
Spine-tingling... Delightfully sinister - CrimeReview.co.uk
Phil Rickman is one of my all-time favourites. I love everything he's done. - Diana Gabaldon
Complex, absorbing, fascinating... - Andrew Taylor
The layers, the characters, the humour, the spookiness - perfect. - Elly Griffiths
No shortage of excitement. - Ruth Rendell
Tight with atmosphere, thick with latent violence... Brilliantly eerie. - Peter James
What a shame I've read all this fab writer's books. - Katie Fforde
Imbues paranormal fiction with subtlety, ambiguity and uncertainty like no other writer. - F.G. Cottam
Mysteries in the classic sense, cleverly combining the supernatural and criminal elements to illuminate the darkest corners of our imaginations. - John Connolly
Scared the sh-t out of me. - Jo Brand
Well-written, haunting. - Jeff Abbott
No-one writes better of the shadow-frontier between the supernatural and the real world. - Bernard Cornwell
Phil Rickman was born in Lancashire and lives on the Welsh border where he writes and presents the book programme Phil the Shelf on BBC Radio Wales. He is the acclaimed author of Dr Dee, The Bones of Avalon, Midwinter Spirit (now a major ITV series), the Merrily Watkins Mysteries and the John Dee papers. Visit his website at: www.philrickman.co.uk
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