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'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…

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Phil Rickman decided to include Covid in this book, the latest in his Merrily Watkins series, and it pays off.

The wave of pain that Covid brought to the world is told sparingly and powerfully as the series hero, Merrily Watkins, tries to take on the burdens of all around her. Merrily is the most interesting hero of any series I read – vicar, single mother, and diocesan exorcist. She deals with human and (maybe) diabolical evil, and whatever your beliefs, you wish she were your local vicar.

Rickman’s ability to create an atmosphere is unparalleled. Whatever you believed at…

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Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…

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