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A disused church near a Welsh border hamlet has already been sold off by the Church when it's discovered that the new owners are "pagans" who intend to use the building for their own rituals. Rev. Merrily Watkins, the diocesan exorcist, is called in, unaware of a threat from a deranged man.
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Over the years, Phil Rickman has won high acclaim for his chilling supernatural tales, including Celtic thrillers as well as the Reverend Merrily Watkins Mysteries, featuring Britain’s first female exorcist. Meticulously researched, rich in historic detail, these atmospheric procedurals are all cracking–good reads.
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The Merrily Watkins series is a set of novels about the people whose job is to investigate the paranormal and attempt to deal with any antisocial elements it appears to throw up.
Here in Britain, there's a very long-established tradition of exorcism, but it's been changing recently. Exorcists -and there's one in every diocese- are now known as Deliverance ministers or consultants. Their job is to advise the regular clergy on all aspects of possible psychic disturbance: ghostly and poltergeist phenomena, negative spiritual practices and, very occasionally, possession.
It's a risky and controversial occupation- especially for a woman.
Merrily Watkins is a widow in her mid-to-late thirties, she's deeply insecure, often paranoid about some of the things she's called on to do, would hate ever to be thought pious and.. oh yes, she has a volatile teenage daughter, Jane, who is more interested in paganism.
Merrily is vicar of a rural parish in Herefordshire, on the Welsh Border, and her Deliverance work is run from an office near Hereford Cathedral.
In her job -as with a number of the exorcists I've talked to in the course of continuing research- Merrily is frequently involved in police investigations. So this series is, essentially, crime. Most of the crime is very dark, sometimes a little nightmarish.
Not horror, though, and definitely not fantasy- even if the element of mystery sometimes exists on, shall we say, more than one level..?
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- PublisherMacmillan
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0333751744
- ISBN 13 9780333751749
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages496
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