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A spooky supernatural thriller by the author of the Merrily Watkins series
Liam Defford doesn't believe in ghosts. As the head of a production company, however, he does believe in high-impact TV. On the lookout for his next idea, he hires journalist Grayle Underhill to research the history of Knap Hall-a Tudor farmhouse turned luxury hotel, abandoned by its owners at the height of its success. The staff has been, paid to keep quiet about what happened...
2) Candlenight
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Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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A supernatural thriller exploring the darker side of rural life in a remote Welsh mountain village, where primal fears and ancient longings haunt the present day
Corpse-candles. Phantom funerals. The bird of death. It was insidious...
For Bethan, the schoolteacher, the old superstitions woven into the social fabric of her West Wales village are primitive and distasteful, which is why she's pleased to welcome the sophisticated newcomers: London journalist...
3) December
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In the ruins of a haunted medieval abbey, four musicians hope to tap into the site's dark history-an experience that almost destroys them
Thirteen years ago on a cold December night, a rock band called The Philosophers Stone gathered in the ancient ruins of an abbey to record their new album.The evening ended in bloodshed and death. Now, the tapes from that fateful recording session have been released as The Black Album, and the scattered members...
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The discovery of an Iron Age body preserved in the peat bogs surrounding the village of Bridelow is one of the finds of the century
Though dead for two millennia, he remains perfectly preserved in black peat. The Man in the Moss is one of the most fascinating finds of the century, but for the isolated Pennine community of Bridelow, his removal is a sinister sign. A danger to the ancient spiritual tradition maintained, curiously, by the Mothers' Union....
5) The Chalice
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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...
6) Curfew
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Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Every night for 400 years, a curfew bell has tolled from the church tower of Crybbe-superstitious ritual or sole defense against an ancient evil?
In Crybbe, only strangers walk at twilight...
For 400 years, the curfew bell has tolled nightly from the church tower of the small country town, Crybbe's only defense against the evil rising unbidden in its haunted streets. Radio reporter Fay Morrison came to Crybbe because she had no choice. Millionaire...
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Merrily Watkins mysteries volume 13
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English
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A medieval legend spawns an unhealthy cult, and a terrifying 13th case for Merrily WatkinsWhen autumn storms blast Hereford, centuries-old human bones are found among the roots of a tree blown down on the city's Castle Green. But why have they been stolen? At the nearby Cathedral, another storm is building around a new, modernizing bishop who believes that if the Church is to survive it must phase out irrelevant archaic practices. Not good news for...
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The angular, modernist house was an unexpected bargain for Zoe and Jonathan Mahonie, newcomers to the city of Hereford and apparently unaware that the house's pristine, white interior walls had been coated with the lifeblood of a previous owner. How is Merrily Watkins, diocesan exorcist for Hereford, to know if Zoe Mahonie is lying or deluded when she claims that the wrathful Susan Lulham is still in residence? Then comes another bloody death. Who...
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Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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THE FOURTH INSTALMENT IN THE MERRILY WATKINS SERIES
'Black poles against the pale night... like a site laid out for a mass-crucifixion.'
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
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Atlantic Books
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2011
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THE THIRD INSTALMENT IN THE MERRILY WATKINS SERIES
'This receptacle was found in the wall beside the fireplace. It has been suggested you may wish to restore it to its proper place.'
When a redundant church is bought by a young pagan couple, the local fundamentalist minister reacts with fury. In an isolated community on the Welsh border, a modern witch hunt begins. Diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins is expected
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Merrily Watkins mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Merrily is called to investigate a possible ghost sighting in her seventh fascinating adventure
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...
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Merrily Watkins mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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'Few writers blend the ancient and supernatural with the modern and criminal better than Rickman.' - Guardian
Diocesan Exorcist: a job viewed by the Church of England with such extreme suspicion that they changed the name. It's Deliverance Consultant now. Still, it seems, no job for a woman. But when the Bishop offers it to Merrily Watkins - parish priest and single mum - she's in no position to refuse.
It starts badly
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Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Hereford's Diocesan Exorcist must encounter a legacy of evil within the crumbling walls of an old hotel along with memories of murder...
'Merrily has become an ever more engaging protagonist, a passionate, flawed modern women every bit as concerned with the intricacies of crime as she is with demons that go bump in the night.' - Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail
'There were certain phrases you could feel, like fingers up your
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The first in the historically rich, atmospheric mystery series featuring female exorcist Reverend Merrily Watkins
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 17th-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....
15) The Magus of Hay
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When a man's body is, discovered in the picturesque town of Hay-on-Wye, his death appears to be "unnatural" in every sense. Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mother, and exorcist, is drafted in to investigate, in this 12th installment
A man's body is, found below a waterfall. It looks like suicide or an accidental drowning-until DI Frannie Bliss enters the dead man's home. What he finds there sends him to Merrily Watkins, the Diocese of Hereford's...
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It begins in the fog, with a bleak village funeral. In the early hours of the following morning, Merrily Watkins and her daughter Jane are made aware that Aidan Lloyd, son of a wealthy farmer, will not be resting in peace. A rural tradition is displaying its sinister side as an old feud re-ignites. It's already a fraught time for Merrily, her future threatened by a bishop committed to restricting her role as deliverance consultant, or diocesan exorcist....
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Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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In Merrily's fifth outing, a serial killer appears to be on the loose-and Merrily has her doubts about the detective in charge of the case
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 Francis Bliss, of Hereford CID, is convinced he knows where the bodies are buried. But Merrily Watkins, called in to...
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