![]() ![]() It's a situation that will take Merrily Watkinsalone for the first time in yearsto the edge of madness. ![]() But behind this pastiche a dark design was taking shape, creating a hidden history of murder and ritual-magic, the relics of which are only now becoming horribly visible. It's been nearly 40 years since Hay was declared an independent state by its self-styled kinga development seen at the time as a joke, a publicity scam. What he finds there sends him to Merrily Watkins, the Diocese of Hereford's official advisor on the paranormal. It looks like suicide or an accidental drowninguntil DI Frannie Bliss enters the dead man's home. 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. When a man's body is discovered in the picturesque town of Hay-on-Wye, his death appears to be "unnatural" in every sense. I have a thing for long series with complex characters, moral ambiguity and evocative writing, and Rickman’s Merrily Watkins series is one of the very best Merrily is an Anglican vicar, a widow with an obnoxious teenaged daughter-and is also the official Exorcist for the Diocese of Hereford. ![]()
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