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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 Lamp of the Wicked
Series:: Merrily Watkins #5
Written by:: Phil Rickman
Read by:: Emma Powell
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 17
Duration:: 20 hours 2 minutes
Published:: June 01 2022
Available Date:: June 01 2022
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781867573814
Genres:: Fiction; Crime & Thriller; Detective; Mystery
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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Bestselling author
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Award winning journalist

The fifth and most devastating Merrily Watkins mystery takes Phil Rickman's endearingly fallible heroine from the wilder shores of millennial spirituality to the darkest hinterland of human depravity.

After half a century of decay, the village of Underhowle looked to be on the brink of a new prosperity. Now, instead, it seems destined for notoriety as the home of a psychotic serial killer. DI Frannie Bliss, of Hereford CID, is convinced he knows where the bodies are buried, but Merrily Watkins wonders if Bliss isn't blinkered by personal ambition. Are the Underhowle deaths really linked to the legacy of Fred West and the most sickening cycle of killings in British criminal history?

'Few writers blend the ancient and supernatural with the modern and criminal better than Rickman.'
Guardian

'... the research is impeccable ... [an] enthralling novel.'
Tribune

'Terrific.'
The Times

'One of the best.'
The Spectator