Merrily Watkins Collection 1

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782391494

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Merrily Watkins collection 1: Midwinter of Spirit and Crown of Lights by Phil Rickman Pdf

A thrilling collection starring the intriguing Merrily Watkins - late thirties, single mum, and diocesan exorcist The Cure of Souls When the local vicar refuses to help his parishioners in the aftermath of a savage murder, diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins is sent in by the bishop. Already involved in the case of a schoolgirl whose mother thinks she's possessed by evil, Merrily is drawn into a deadly tangle of deceit as she uncovers the twisted secrets of the village's past. The Lamp of the Wicked A serial killer is on the loose in the small village of Underhowle. DI Francis Bliss is convinced he knows where the bodies are buried. But Merrily wonders if Bliss isn't blinkered by personal ambition. And are the Underhowle deaths really linked to some of the most sickening killings in British history?

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1322583269

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Merrily Watkins Collection 1 by Phil Rickman Pdf

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857890160

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The Wine of Angels by Phil Rickman Pdf

The Merrily Watkins series will have you hooked. Join Merrily in her chilling tales of murder, mystery and intrigue. 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. Few writers blend the ancient and supernatural with the modern and criminal better than Rickman. - Guardian

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Pan Books Limited
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 033037401X

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Midwinter of the Spirit by Phil Rickman Pdf

As an early winter slices through the old city of Hereford, a body is found in the River Wye, an ancient church is descrated, and there are even indications of evil in Hereford Cathedral itself, where the tomb of St. Thomas Cantilupe lies in fragments.

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623652982

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The Remains of an Altar by Phil Rickman Pdf

Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mother and Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford, heads for the Malvern Hills to investigate an alleged paranormal dimension to a spate of road accidents in the sleepy village of Wychehill. Merrily is called in when two people are killed in a head-on crash that is also linked to the revamped local pub which, it seems, has injected the valley with a shattering, strobing surge of inner-city nightlife... and drugs. When a dealer is found savagely murdered below the great earthen hillfort of Herefordshire Beacon, police ask: is it a ritual killing, a gangland disposal or a cry of outrage? As Merrily and the police follow separate paths towards the truth, Merrily's teenage daughter, Jane, faces the consequences of her own obsession with a possibly prehistoric site in their home village of Ledwardine. Until, on a night of frenzied violence, in a place at the centre of an ancient, universal mystery, the final, shocking connections are made.

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857890214

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The Prayer of the Night Shepherd by Phil Rickman Pdf

The sixth Merrily Watkins mystery finds her daughter embarking on a first job, and running into a dark local legend A crumbling hotel on the border of England and Wales, a suggestion of inherited evil, a strange love affair, and the long-disputed origins of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles. Fascinating for young Jane Watkins, flushed by the freedom of her first weekend job. But the sinister side becomes increasingly apparent to her mother, Merrily, diocesan exorcist for Hereford. Then come memories of a child-killer, blood in the fresh snow.

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Corvus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857890115

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A Crown of Lights by Phil Rickman Pdf

Merrily Watkins: late thirties, single mum, parish priest. Cosy? I don't think so.

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857894748

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The Secrets of Pain by Phil Rickman Pdf

Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mother, and exorcist, works for the Diocese of Hereford in a remote village on the border of England and Wales. Cozy? Not in the least. The elite warriors of the Hereford-based SAS know all about pain and the enduring of it. Syd Spicer, ex-SAS trooper, has found himself back in the Regiment, this time as its chaplain, responsible for the spiritual welfare of the hardest men in or out of uniform. Faced with a case which would normally be passed discreetly to Hereford diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins, Spicer is forced, for security reasons, to try and handle it himself, and is coming close to a breakdown. Meanwhile, the scattered communities along the Welsh border have their own crisis. With recession biting deep, urban crime has spilled into the countryside and old barbaric evils are revived. When a wealthy landowner is hacked to death in his own farmyard, the senior investigating officer DI Frannie Bliss is caught in the backlash, his private life in danger of exposure. With the framework of her own world beginning to crack, Merrily is persuaded to venture into areas where neither a priest nor a woman is welcome to unearth secrets linked with the border's pagan past—secrets which she knows can never be disclosed.

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857890191

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The Cure of Souls by Phil Rickman Pdf

Merrily Watkins faces multiple occult threats in her fourth outing In Herefordshire's hop-growing country, where the river flows as dark as beer, a converted kiln is the scene of a savage murder. When the local vicar refuses to help its new owners cope with the aftermath, diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins is sent in by the Bishop. Already involved in the case of a schoolgirl whose mother thinks she's possessed by evil, the hesitant Merrily is drawn into a deadly tangle of deceit, corruption, and sexual menace as she uncovers the secrets of a village with a past as twisted as the hop-bines which once enclosed it.

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786494603

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The Fever of the World by Phil Rickman Pdf

'Brilliantly eerie' PETER JAMES 'Engrossing and beautifully dark . . . a cracking good read' JO BRAND 'A most original sleuth' THE TIMES Welcome to the River Wye: a place of poetry, historic obsession... and occult murder. The curious death of an estate agent is being investigated by detective David Vaynor who, before joining the police, studied the famous 18th century poet William Wordsworth. As Vaynor is discovering, the dark paganism that changed Wordsworth's life still lingers on the banks of the River Wye today - and there are some killings even the police can't approach... Enter Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mum, and diocesan exorcist for Hereford. Called away from her local hauntings, Merrily finds herself confronting the riverside ghosts who, as Wordsworth puts it, 'promote ill purposes and flatter foul desires'. In the ancient heart of the Wye Valley, a buried grudge is about to come to light. *Book 16 in the Merrily Watkins series - now a critically acclaimed ITV drama starring Anna Maxwell-Martin!* More praise for Phil Rickman 'Cleverly illuminates the darkest corners of our imagination' John Connolly 'The layers, the characters, the humour, the spookiness - perfect' Elly Griffiths 'First rate crime with demons that go bump in the night' Daily Mail 'No one writes better of the shadow-frontier between the supernatural and the real world' Bernard Cornwell

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857890221

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The Smile of a Ghost by Phil Rickman Pdf

The Parish Priest must solve the mystery of a young boy's deathly fall from the Ludlow Castle ruins, and discovers a hidden obsession with the afterlife amongst the ancient streets... 'Compassionate, original and sharply contemporary. Rickman's crime series is one of the best around.' - Spectator In the affluent, historic town of Ludlow, a teenage boy dies in a fall from the castle ruins. Accident or suicide? No great mystery - so why does the boy's uncle, retired detective Andy Mumford, turn to Diocesan Exorcist Merrily Watkins? More people will die before Merrily - her own future uncertain - uncovers a dangerous obsession with suicide, death and the afterlife hidden within these shadowed medieval streets.

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782396994

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All of a Winter's Night by Phil Rickman Pdf

Merrily Watkins is the most singular of crime fiction protagonists... As ever [Rickman]'s supremely skillful at teasing out the menace that lies behind English folk customs and legends and weaving them into a compelling contemporary narrative. - Mail on Sunday IN THE DARK HEART OF THE COUNTRYSIDE... When Aidan Lloyd's bleak funeral is followed by a nocturnal ritual in the fog, it becomes all too clear that Aidan, son of a wealthy farmer, will not be resting in peace. Aidan's hidden history has reignited an old feud, and a rural tradition begins to display its sinister side. It's already a fraught time for Merrily Watkins, her future threatened by a bishop committed to restricting her role as diocesan exorcist for Hereford. Suddenly there are events she can't talk about as she and her daughter Jane find themselves potentially on the wrong side of the law. In the city of Hereford, DI Frannie Bliss, investigating a shooting, must confront the apparent growth of organised crime, also contaminating the countryside. On the Welsh border, the old ways are at war with the modern world. As the days shorten and the fog gives way to ice and snow, a savage killing draws Merrily Watkins into a conflict centred on one of Britain's most famous medieval churches, its walls laden with ancient symbolism. Midwinter of the Spirit, televised last year to worldwide critical acclaim, was the first novel to reflect the reality of exorcism in modern Britain. All of a Winter's Night is the 15th episode in this electrifying series.

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1322399107

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Merrily Watkins Collection 3 by Phil Rickman Pdf

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857896919

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The Chalice by Phil Rickman Pdf

Glastonbury Tor is the legendary resting place of the Holy Grail, but something else also rests beneath the hill Glastonbury, legendary resting place of the Holy Grail, is a mysterious and haunting town. But when plump, dizzy Diane Ffitch returns home, it's with a sense of deep unease—and not only about her aristocratic family's reaction to her broken engagement and her New Age companions. Plans for a new motorway have intensified the old bitterness between the local people and the "pilgrims," so already the sacred air is soured. And, as the town becomes increasingly split by violence and death, Diane, local bookseller Juanita Carey, and the writer Joe Powys must now face up to the worst of all possibilities: the existence of an anti-Grail—the dark chalice.

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 1163 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782391500

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Merrily Watkins collection 2: Cure of Souls and Lamp of the Wicked by Phil Rickman Pdf

The Cure of Souls When the local vicar refuses to help his parishioners in the aftermath of a savage murder, Diocesan Exorcist Merrily Watkins is sent in by the bishop. Already involved in the case of a schoolgirl whose mother thinks she's possessed by evil, Merrily is drawn into a deadly tangle of deceit as she uncovers the twisted secrets of the village's past. The Lamp of the Wicked A serial killer is on the loose in the small village of Underhowle. DI Francis Bliss is convinced he knows where the bodies are buried. But Merrily wonders if Bliss isn't blinkered by personal ambition. And are the Underhowle deaths really linked to some of the most sickening killings in British history?