Merrily Watkins Collection 3 Prayer Of The Night Shepherd And Smile Of A Ghost

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 1073 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782391517

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Merrily Watkins collection 3: Prayer of the Night Shepherd and Smile of a Ghost by Phil Rickman Pdf

The Prayer of the Night Shepherd 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. Young Jane Watkins is fascinated, but her mother, Merrily, Diocesan Exorcist, can soon see the sinister side. Especially when blood appears in the fresh snow. The Smile of a Ghost In the affluent, historic town of Ludlow, a teenage boy dies in a fall from the castle ruins. Accident or suicide? And why does the boy's uncle turn to exoricist Merrily Watkins? Merrily must work fast as the death toll rises, but there is a dangerous obsession lurking in these shadowed medieval streets.

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : 589 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Quercus
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Quercus
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623653095

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To Dream of the Dead by Phil Rickman Pdf

December, and the river is rising. The village of Ledwardine has never been flooded in living memory. Within days it will be an island. There's no electricity. The church is serving as a temporary mortuary for two people who drowned. Only one man feels safer. An aggressively atheist author has been moved, for his own safety, Rushdie-style, into a secluded house just outside the village. Fundamentalist Christians have hated him for years. Now he's offended the Muslims. Bad move. Meanwhile, archaeologists, assisted by Merrily's teenage daughter, Jane, are at work in Coleman's Meadow, unearthing an ancient row of standing stones which some people would rather stay buried. The atheist's temporary home is close to the site. And his young wife is becoming conspicuously agitated. Is it the fear of discovery--or the kind of fear that she, of all people, could never disclose? One thing is clear: the last person who's going to be welcome in that house is an exorcist. With the flood water washing up Church Lane towards the vicarage and the shop running out of cigarettes it looks like a cold and complex Christmas for Merrily Watkins in an ancient community forced to untangle its own history against the swirling uncertainty of the future.

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Atlantic Books
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 Ltd
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857890207

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The Lamp of the Wicked by Phil Rickman Pdf

Merrily must unearth the mysteries of the decaying village of Underhowle, and tackle a particularly stubborn Detective Inspector who strays off course... 'Few writers blend the ancient and supernatural with the modern and criminal better than Rickman.' - Guardian 'You're looking at his inspiration. These are ones he wishes he'd done, the ones he wishes he'd got to first.' After half a century of decay, the village of Underhowle looked to be on the brink of a new prosperity. Now, instead, it seems destined for notoriety as the home of a psychotic serial killer. DI Frannie Bliss, of Hereford CID, is convinced he knows where the bodies are buried, but Merrily Watkins wonders if Bliss isn't blinkered by personal ambition. Are the Underhowle deaths really linked to the legacy of Fred West and the most sickening cycle of killings in British criminal history?

Author : Eugene Field
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664563835

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A Little Book of Profitable Tales by Eugene Field Pdf

'A Little Book of Profitable Tales' is a collection of short stories written by Eugene Field. More than a dozen titles are presented in this book's pages, including 'The Oak-Tree and the Ivy', 'The Hampshire Hills', 'The Old Man', and 'The Little Yaller Baby'.

Author : Leland Ryken
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310874287

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Worldly Saints by Leland Ryken Pdf

"Ryken's Worldly Saints offers a fine introduction to seventeenth-century Puritanism in its English and American contexts. The work is rich in quotations from Puritan worthies and is ideally suited to general readers who have not delved widely into Puritan literature. It will also be a source of information and inspiration to those who seek a clearer understanding of the Puritan roots of American Christianity." -Harry Stout, Yale University "...the typical Puritans were not wild men, fierce and freaky, religious fanatics and social extremists, but sober, conscientious, and cultured citizens, persons of principle, determined and disciplined excelling in the domestic virtues, and with no obvious shortcomings save a tendency to run to words when saying anything important, whether to God or to a man. At last the record has been put straight." -J.I. Packer, Regent College "Worldly Saints provides a revealing treasury of primary and secondary evidence for understanding the Puritans, who they were, what they believed, and how they acted. This is a book of value and interest for scholars and students, clergy and laity alike." -Roland Mushat Frye, University of Pennsylvania "A very persuasive...most interesting book...stuffed with quotations from Puritan sources, almost to the point of making it a mini-anthology." -Publishers Weekly "With Worldly Saints, Christians of all persuasions have a tool that provides ready access to the vast treasures of Puritan thought." -Christianity Today "Ryken writes with a vigor and enthusiasm that makes delightful reading-never a dull moment." -Fides et Historia "Worldly Saints provides a valuable picture of Puritan life and values. It should be useful for general readers as well as for students of history and literature." -Christianity and Literature

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UIUC:30112002528336

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The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather Pdf

A novelist and short-story writer, Willa Cather is today widely regarded as one of the foremost American authors of the twentieth century. Particularly renowned for the memorable women she created for such works as My Antonia and O Pioneers!, she pens the portrait of another formidable character in The Song of the Lark. This, her third novel, traces the struggle of the woman as artist in an era when a woman's role was far more rigidly defined than it is today. The prototype for the main character as a child and adolescent was Cather herself, while a leading Wagnerian soprano at the Metropolitan Opera (Olive Fremstad) became the model for Thea Kronborg, the singer who defies the limitations placed on women of her time and social station to become an international opera star. A coming-of-age-novel, important for the issues of gender and class that it explores, The Song of the Lark is one of Cather's most popular and lyrical works. Book jacket.

Author : John Ashton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Devil
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020265518

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The Devil in Britain and America by John Ashton Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3004 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 083524749X

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Bowker's Guide to Characters in Fiction 2007 by Anonim Pdf