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Crime, Thriller & Mystery
The Cure of Souls When the local vicar refuses to help his parishioners in the aftermath of a savage murder, Diocesan Exorcist Merrily Watkins is sent in by the bishop. Already involved in the case of a schoolgirl whose... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
The Prayer of the Night Shepherd A crumbling hotel on the border of England and Wales. A suggestion of inherited evil, a strange love affair... and the long-disputed origins of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the... See More
Fantasy
The 12th instalment in the Merrily Watkins series When a man's body is discovered near the picturesque town of Hay-on-Wye, his death appears to be 'unnatural' in every sense. Merrily Watkins, priest, single mother and... See More
Horror
Merrily must unearth the mysteries of the decaying village of Underhowle, and tackle a particularly stubborn Detective Inspector who strays off course... 'Few writers blend the ancient and supernatural with the modern and... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery'Brilliantly eerie' PETER JAMES 'Engrossing and beautifully dark... a cracking good read' JO BRAND 'A most original sleuth' THE TIMES Welcome to the River Wye: a place of poetry, historic obsession... and occult murder.... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Single mother and Diocesan Exorcist Merrily Watkins must keep the peace in rural Hereford, quelling a modern witch hunt, and a killer with an old tradition to guard... Ancient history, violent deaths, feuds, intrigues and... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
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... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mum and Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford, heads for the Malvern Hills to investigate an alleged paranormal dimension to a spate of road accidents in the sleepy village... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Grimly sinister. Written with blood-curdling aplomb. - Sunday Telegraph Leo Defford doesn't believe in ghosts. But, as the head of an independent production company, he does believe in high-impact TV. Defford hires... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
The discovery of centuries old human bones; a haunted 12th century house; a medieval legend spawning a modern cult... Merrily must piece together a most insidious mystery. 'No-one in the business deals with the spooky stuff... See More
Horror
A supernatural thriller from the author of the chilling Merrily Watkins Mysteries. For Bethan, a schoolteacher, the old superstitions woven into the social fabric of her West Wales village are primitive and distasteful... See More
Horror
A standalone supernatural thriller from the author of the chilling Merrily Watkins Mysteries. December has the shortest days, the darkest nights... In the ruins of a medieval abbey on the Welsh Border, four young musicians... See More
Horror
A PHIL RICKMAN STANDALONE NOVEL A supernatural thriller from the author of the chilling Merrily Watkins Mysteries. Though dead for two millennia, he remains perfectly preserved in black peat. The Man in the Moss is one of... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'Brilliantly eerie' PETER JAMES 'Engrossing and beautifully dark... a cracking good read' JO BRAND 'A most original sleuth' THE TIMES Welcome to the River Wye: a place of poetry, historic obsession... and occult murder. The... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
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... See More
Horror
A standalone supernatural thriller from the author of the chilling Merrily Watkins Mysteries Glastonbury, legendary resting place of the Holy Grail, is a mysterious and haunting town. But when plump, dizzy Diane Ffitch... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
A rainy night in the cathedral city of Hereford. A grisly murder is linked by DI Francis Bliss with the campaign to preserve an ancient ritual site. And then Bliss is sidelined by his boss. What's going on? In the village... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
The Master House, close to the Welsh border, is medieval and slowly falling into ruins. Now the house and its surrounding land have been sold to the Duchy of Cornwall. But the Duchy's plans to renovate the house and its... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'Few writers blend the ancient and supernatural with the modern and criminal better than Rickman.' - Guardian Diocesan Exorcist: a job viewed by the Church of England with such extreme suspicion that they changed the name... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
The Parish Priest must solve the mystery of a young boy's deathly fall from the Ludlow Castle ruins, and discovers a hidden obsession with the afterlife amongst the ancient streets... 'Compassionate, original and sharply... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
A school girl possessed by evil spirits and a savage murder; Merrily is once again drawn into the deadly tangle of deceit and mystery in rural Herefordshire... Lies, cover-ups, danger and the unexplainable. The pace is fast... See More
Historical Fiction
Tudor intrigue, murder and the dark arts - the second in an acclaimed historical series starring Dr John Dee All talk is of the End-time... and the dead are rising. At the end of the sunless summer of 1560, black rumour... See More
Historical Fiction
Religious strife, Glastonbury legends, the bones of King Arthur and the curse of the Tudors... can astrologer John Dee help the young Queen Elizabeth to avoid it? It is 1560, and Elizabeth Tudor has been on the throne for a... See More
Horror
A standalone supernatural thriller from the author of the chilling Merrily Watkins Mysteries. For four hundred years, the curfew bell has tolled nightly from the church tower of the small country town, Crybbe's only defence... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Hereford's Diocesan Exorcist must encounter a legacy of evil within the crumbling walls of an old hotel along with memories of murder... 'Merrily has become an ever more engaging protagonist, a passionate, flawed modern... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
INTRODUCING MERRILY Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mother, exorcist, works for the Diocese of Hereford in a remote village on the border of England and Wales. Like many men and women doing an essentially medieval... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Midwinter of the Spirit The Church of England are so suspicious about having a Diocesan Exorcist that they've altered the job title - it's Deliverance Consultant now. But the name change hasn't done much to improve Merrily... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
The Diocesan Exorcist for Hereford must reveal the haunting presence of Susan Lulham... First rate crime with demons that go bump in the night. - Daily Mail The angular, modernist house was an unexpected bargain for Zoe and... See More
Children's eBooks
Welcome to Glastonbury. Real Place. Real Magic. Marco's summer in Glastonbury is starting to get seriously weird... The locals are having strange and terrifying visions, and then Marco's friend, Rosa, finds an ancient relic... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
When DI Bobby Maiden is revived in hospital after temporarily dying in a hit and run incident, his memories are of a cold, harsh place he never wants to revisit... memories that mean Maiden may be the only person who can... See More