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The Wine of Angels
Phil Rickman · 1998 · 608 pages
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.
Few writers blend the ancient and supernatural with the modern and criminal better than Rickman. -
Guardian
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Diana Gabaldon
“"Hmm... Sam Sykes (SEVEN BLADES IN BLACK - first book in a trilogy - epic fantasy); Phil Rickman (13-book series! THE WINE OF ANGELS, first book - mystery/supernatural), Elizabeth George (A GREAT DELIVERANCE - first of 21 books; British-set police/crime). All intensely readable!"”↗
