When a man's body is discovered near the picturesque town of Hay-on-Wye, his death appears to be 'unnatural' in every sense. Merrily Watkins is drafted in to investigate.
'Rickman's writing style reflects his subject matter: spooky and indirect, elegantly crafted but always a sense of shadow behind you, that you've missed something you should have seen.' - New York Review Of Books
'The wind was rising. A smokey cloud-mass shaped like a rabbit made a forward bound in slow motion and came apart over Hay Castle a mile away on the horizon . . .'
Hay-on-Wye: the Welsh-border town that became world-famous for declaring independence and crowning its own king. But now black clouds are gathering, to meet rising shadows from the past. As the town fights for its future, a man drowns in a deep pool below a waterfall, a woman disappears, and diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins - alone and vulnerable - uncovers a secret history of dark magic and ritual murder.
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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 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 The Heresy of Dr Dee, The Bones of Avalon, Midwinter of the Spirit (now a major ITV series), the Merrily Watkins series and the John Dee Papers. Visit his website at: www.philrickman.co.uk.
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