The Wine of Angels

The first unputdownable suspense novel in the bestselling Merrily Watkins series_________________________’Few writers blend the ancient and supernatural with the modern and criminal better than Rickman’ GUARDIAN’A most original sleuth’ THE TIMES’Brilliantly eerie’ PETER JAMES___________________________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._______________________Readers love Phil Rickman and the Merrily Watkins series…’Well done, Mr Rickman, well done!”Splendidly mixes mystery, suspense and the supernatural”The most enjoyable series of books I have ever read”The most innovative and unique thriller writer”A brilliant start to an excellent series’

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