Merrily Watkins mysteries
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Merrily Watkins mysteries volume 1
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Pan Books
Pub. Date
1999
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631 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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A paradise parish of cobbled streets and timber-framed houses, and a huge, haunted vicarage were not what the Revd Merrily Watkins ever had in mind. Nor had she wanted to walk into a local dispute over a play about a curious 17th century cleric accused of witchcraft ... a story that certain old-established families would rather remained in obscurity. But this is Ledwardine, steeped in cider and secrets. And also - as Merrily and her teenage daughter,...
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Merrily Watkins mysteries volume 2
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Reverend Merrily Watkins finds herself replacing a retiring exorcist who is determined to make the transition as unpleasant as possible
Diocesan Exorcist: a job viewed by the Church of England with such extreme suspicion that they changed the name. It's Deliverance Consultant now. Still, it seems, no job for a woman. But when, the Bishop offers it to Merrily Watkins, parish priest and single mother, she's in no position to refuse. It starts badly...
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A crown of lights , Merrily Watkins mysteries volume 3
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The cure of souls , Merrily Watkins mysteries volume 4
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Lamp of the wicked , Merrily Watkins mysteries volume 5
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The prayer of the night shepherd: the sixth Merrily Watkins mystery , Merrily Watkins mysteries volume 6
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The smile of a ghost: A Merrily Watkins mystery , Merrily Watkins mysteries volume 7
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The remains of an altar , Merrily Watkins mysteries volume 8
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The fabric of sin , Merrily Watkins mysteries volume 9
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To dream of the dead , Merrily Watkins mysteries volume 10
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Merrily Watkins mysteries volume 11
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Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mother, and exorcist, works for the Diocese of Hereford in a remote village on the border of England and Wales. Cozy? Not in the least.
The elite warriors of the Hereford-based SAS know all about pain and the enduring of it. Syd Spicer, ex-SAS trooper, has found himself back in the Regiment, this time as its chaplain, responsible for the spiritual welfare of the hardest men in or out of uniform. Faced with a...
12) The Magus of Hay
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Merrily Watkins mysteries volume 12
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When a man's body is, discovered in the picturesque town of Hay-on-Wye, his death appears to be "unnatural" in every sense. 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. It looks like suicide or an accidental drowning-until DI Frannie Bliss enters the dead man's home. What he finds there sends him to Merrily Watkins, the Diocese of Hereford's...
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Merrily Watkins mysteries volume 13
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A medieval legend spawns an unhealthy cult, and a terrifying 13th case for Merrily WatkinsWhen autumn storms blast Hereford, centuries-old human bones are found among the roots of a tree blown down on the city's Castle Green. But why have they been stolen? At the nearby Cathedral, another storm is building around a new, modernizing bishop who believes that if the Church is to survive it must phase out irrelevant archaic practices. Not good news for...
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Merrily Watkins mysteries volume 14
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It begins in the fog, with a bleak village funeral. In the early hours of the following morning, Merrily Watkins and her daughter Jane are made aware that Aidan Lloyd, son of a wealthy farmer, will not be resting in peace. A rural tradition is displaying its sinister side as an old feud re-ignites. It's already a fraught time for Merrily, her future threatened by a bishop committed to restricting her role as deliverance consultant, or diocesan exorcist....
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The angular, modernist house was an unexpected bargain for Zoe and Jonathan Mahonie, newcomers to the city of Hereford and apparently unaware that the house's pristine, white interior walls had been coated with the lifeblood of a previous owner. How is Merrily Watkins, diocesan exorcist for Hereford, to know if Zoe Mahonie is lying or deluded when she claims that the wrathful Susan Lulham is still in residence? Then comes another bloody death. Who...
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THE SIXTEENTH INSTALMENT IN THE MERRILY WATKINS SERIES 'Merrily 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 and legends and weaving them into a compelling contemporary narrative.' Mail on Sunday ''I called on Darkness-but before the word Was uttered, midnight darkness seemed to take All objects from my sight...' William Wordsworth...