THE FOURTEENTH INSTALMENT IN THE MERRILY WATKINS SERIESMerrily 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 & legends & weaving them into a compelling contemporary narrative
- Mail on Sunday IN THE DARK HEART OF THE COUNTRYSIDEAidan Lloyd's cold & sombre funeral suggests he won't be resting in peace But not even diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins foresees its unearthly aftermath As a string of killings shakes the wintry Welsh border & a farming feud intensifies Merrily
- personally threatened by an enemy within
- confronts secrets hidden in ancient dances & the walls of an enigmatic medieval church