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Phil Rickman

Phil Rickman is the author of the Merrily Watkins mysteries, the new John Dee series and several novels of the paranormal, including two for children under the name Thom Madley. He’s still trying to write the sometimes-transcendental thriller (an all-the-time transcendental thriller would be bloody unreadable, so it’s a balancing act). Born in Lancashire, he’s spent most of his adult life in Wales and the Border country, where he won a couple of awards for his work as a BBC radio and TV news reporter. First novel, Candlenight (1991) was discovered by the novelist and fiction-editor Alice Thomas Ellis and was followed by four other stand-alone ghost stories before the Merrily Watkins series began with The Wine of Angels. Phil lives near Hay-on-Wye with his wife and editor, Carol – they met as journalists on the same paper – and a bunch of animals. He writes and presents the book programme Phil the Shelf on BBC Radio Wales.

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Title:: The Cure of Souls (MP3)
Series:: Merrily Watkins #4
Written by:: Phil Rickman
Read by:: Emma Powell
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 1
Duration:: 17 hours 36 minutes
MP3 size:: 635 MB
Published:: April 01 2022
Available Date:: April 01 2022
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781867573906
Genres:: Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Crime & Thriller; Mystery
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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The Cure of Souls is the fourth instalment in the Merrily Watkins series from highly acclaimed author, Phil Rickman.

In Herefordshire's hop-growing country, a converted kiln is the scene of a savage murder. When the local vicar refuses to help its new owners cope with the aftermath, Merrily Watkins is sent in by the Bishop of Hereford to defuse the situation. Merrily, however, is already contending with a woman's claim that her daughter is possessed by evil. In both cases Merrily remains unconvinced, but nothing is ever quite what it seems. As she is drawn into a tangle of trickery, deceit, corruption and sexual menace, her hastily conducted exorcism produces unhappy results. With her career now on the line, she tries to uncover the secrets of Knight's Frome – a village concealing a past as twisted as the hop-bines which once enclosed it.

'Lies, cover-ups, danger and the unexplainable. The pace is fast and plot twists await the reader around every corner. Even sceptics will shudder.'
Publishers Weekly

'Highly-entertaining ... delivered with a panache we have come to expect.'
Crimetime