The first unputdownable suspense novel in the bestselling Merrily Watkins series

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'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

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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.

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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'