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The protagonist of Phil Rickman’s thoroughly modern, paranormal mysteries is Merrily Watkins, Anglican priest and Deliverance Consultant – or exorcist – for the Diocese of Hereford. Her work is the unravelling of mysteries, spiritual, psychological, supernatural and criminal, in the isolated villages of the Welsh borders. The seven titles included in this set are: The Secrets of Pain (Read more...) The Magus of Hay (Read more...) The Smile of a Ghost (Read more...) The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (Read more...) The Lamp of the Wicked (Read more...) A Crown of Lights (Read more...) Midwinter of the Spirit (Read more...)

Merrily Watkins is Paranormal Advisor, or ‘exorcist’ as it was once known, in the Diocese of Hereford. When a medieval corpse in the old city is uncovered by a storm, she has to work with the police and other experts to decipher its secrets.

When a converted kiln in hop-growing country is the scene of a savage murder, diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins is sent to investigate the dark secrets of the local villagers, and a schoolgirl who has apparently been possessed by evil spirits.

When a teenager falls from Ludlow’s castle tower, the boy’s father suspects foul play. Asked to investigate, Merrily discovers a worrying obsession with suicide and the afterlife in the ancient town.

Set in 8th-century Scandinavia, the second of Brun’s Wanderer Chronicles follows Erlan, bodyguard to the Sveärs’ king, and the king’s daughter Lilla. With the Danes threatening war, the pair must choose between their duty and their love for each other.

Merrily’s daughter Jane has a part-time job at Stanner Hall, a crumbling Gothic hotel, where the Sherlock Holmes-obsessed owner hosts murder mystery weekends. Behind the make-belief, Merrily detects a disturbing reality.

Newly appointed as Deliverance Consultant by the Bishop of Hereford, Merrily Watkins is off to an ominous start: an ancient church is desecrated, a saint’s tomb is smashed and a body is found in the River Wye.

In Hay-on-Wye, a couple are setting up a new pagan bookshop; meanwhile, a man is found drowned near the town. Investigating David Hambling’s death, DI Bliss is alarmed by his strange library and calls on the expertise of the exorcist.

Merrily, in Underhowle to conduct a funeral, intervenes when the village is suspected of being the home of a psychotic serial killer, and an ambitious DI links the village deaths to the sickening crimes of Fred West.

Amid the gang violence of early 19th-century New York, a young girl has been brutally murdered. As Marshall Justy Flanagan and teacher Kerry O’Toole separately seek the killer, they discover a web of political conspiracy and criminal enterprise.

Grace catches glimpses of her dead boyfriend, Henry, everywhere. She dismisses the sightings as a manifestation of her grief, but when she meets a man who is the mirror image of her lost love, she must untangle his past from her future.

Sent to a village on the Welsh border to make peace between the local fundamentalist priest and a pagan couple who have bought a ruined church nearby, Merrily uncovers the sinister dynamics of Old Hindwell.

When bodies are discovered bearing the mark of an inverted cross, physician Nicholas Shelby and mysterious tavern keeper Bianca join forces to find a killer who appears to be preying on the weak and destitute of Elizabethan London.

In this romantic comedy set at Christmas, Eve breaks up with her cheating fiancé, meets a new man and learns how to cook, but can she find out why an angry goose is stalking her boat?

When Alexander Palmer opened his pharmacy in Victorian Edinburgh, Rebecca, his new wife, looked forward to a prosperous and genteel future. Instead, Alexander’s infidelities, sexual desires, greed and his invention – heroin – leads them both into a world of dark passions and addiction.

Will Hurley, Dublin’s ‘Canal Killer’, is ten years into his prison sentence when the body of a young woman is pulled from the Grand Canal. It looks like a copycat murder and detectives want to speak to Will, but he will only talk to one person: his girlfriend of ten years ago.

Defeated by a complex problem, the chaplain of the Hereford-based SAS calls in the Deliverance Consultant. Merrily must confront both dark secrets within the regiment and the mysteries of region’s brutal pagan past.