MERRILY WATKINS: SINGLE MUM, PARISH PRIEST. COSY? I DON'T THINK SO... 'FIRST CLASS' - 'TERRIFIC' - 'WONDERFUL' - 'FIRST RATE' GUARDIAN - THE TIMES - DAILY EXPRESS - DAILY MAIL
Phil Rickman lives on the Welsh border where he writes and presents the book programme Phil the Shelf on BBC Radio Wales. He is the hugely popular author of The Bones of Avalon and the Merrily Watkins Mysteries.
The most challenging and intelligent crime novel I encountered last
year. Rickman writes with care and sympathy and doesn't shy away
from the horror.
*Eurocrime*
The good thing about Merrily Watkins is that she's not full of
righteous certainty and intuitive detective skills, she is flawed
and filled with doubts. A reminder that good fiction based on
unsettling ideas can be as illuminating as any number of earnest
documentaries.
*Sunday Mercury*
Monumentally ambitious . . . Merrily links criminal, psychological,
moral, sociological, spiritual and supernatural realms to dig
deeper into evildoing just when most fictional sleuths would be
calling it quits.
*Kirkus Reviews, USA*
Few writers blend the ancient and supernatural with the modern and
criminal better than Rickman.
*Guardian*
Phil Rickman is one of my all-time favourites. I love everything
he's done, from horror to mystery to supernatural thriller - often
all in the same book.
*Diana Gabaldon*
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