Phil Rickman. Corvus (IPG dist.), $12.95 trade paper (592p) ISBN 978-1-84887-273-8
Parish priest and exorcist Merrily Watkins, “deliverance consultant for the Diocese of Hereford,” investigates more than one strange death near the Welsh border in Rickman’s eerie 11th mystery to mix the natural and the supernatural (after 2008’s To
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Phil Rickman. Corvus (IPG, dist.) $19.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-78239-755-7
At the start of British author Rickman's assured novella, the 13th entry in his Merrily Watkins paranormal series (after 2014's The Magus of Hay), Zoe Mahonie and her husband, Jonathan, discover that their new home in Hereford, England, was...
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Phil Rickman, Author . Pan $7.95 (630p) ISBN 978-0-330-34268-1
In the U.S. release of Rickman's first title featuring Rev. Merrily Watkis and her teenage daughter, Jane, Rickman (Midwinter of the Spirit) moves farther away from the traditional horror genre to craft a first-rate thriller with supernatural...
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Phil Rickman, Author . Macmillan U.K. $28 (191p) ISBN 978-0-333-90623-1
Merrily Watkins, single mom and Anglican priest, faces more than one occult threat in her third chilling outing, set in northeast Herefordshire near the Welsh border, from British author Rickman (Midwinter of the Spirit; A Crown of Lights). In her...
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Phil Rickman, Author . Macmillan U.K. $19.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-333-90805-1
A serial killer stalks a small English town in British author Rickman's fourth Merrily Watkins mystery, a darker, more disturbing tale than last year's The Cure of Souls. The Anglican priest and single mom agrees to help a parishioner, Gomer
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Phil Rickman, Author . Macmillan $25 (473p) ISBN 978-1-4050-5169-9
Merrily Watkins faces her most challenging case yet in British author Rickman's unsettling seventh mystery to feature the Anglican priest and deliverance consultant to the diocese of Hereford (after 2004's The Prayer of the Night Shepherd
).
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Phil Rickman, Author . Quercus $24.95 (458p) ISBN 978-1-84724-084-2
British author Rickman once again cleverly blends supernatural elements with a conventional whodunit plot in his ninth Merrily Watkins novel (after 2007's The Remains of an Altar
). An apparition resembling the ghost in M.R. James's short...
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Phil Rickman, Author . Quercus $24.95 (474p) ISBN 978-1-84724-578-6
Past and present collide with fatal results in British author Rickman’s unsettling 10th mystery to feature parish priest Merrily Watkins (after 2008’s The Fabric of Sin
). A few days before Christmas, a body with a mutilated face turns...
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Phil Rickman, Author Putnam Publishing Group $23.95 (492p) ISBN 978-0-399-13861-4
New Age mystics, led by a record producer moonlighting as a necromancer, rouse a sleepy town's evil spirits in this stylish novel of the occult, the first U.S. publication for British author Rickman. Nestled between England and Wales, the decrepit...
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Phil Rickman, Author Jove Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-515-11715-8
This heartfelt account of Celtic terror by British author Rickman is more a socio-political commentary on globalization and nationalism than a horror novel. In Wales, where hoards of English immigrants buy up the land and dilute the cultural...
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Phil Rickman, Author Berkley Trade Pub $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-425-15377-2
In December 1980, a rock band whose members are all psychics, records an album amidst the ancient ruins of an abbey in Wales. The result is tragic; but 14 tormented years later, the band members are lured to a reunion by inescapable forces. Together,
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Phil Rickman, Author MacMillan UK $24.95 (535p) ISBN 978-0-333-90806-8
When unemployed TV producer Ben Foley discovers that running murder-mystery weekends at Stanner Hall, an old Herefordshire mansion turned hotel he's purchased, isn't as profitable as he anticipated, he determines to prove his theory that Sir Arthur...
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Phil Rickman. Minotaur, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-67238-6
Elizabeth I's controversial astrologer, John Dee, takes center stage in this serviceable thriller set in 1560 from British author Rickman (To Dream of the Dead and nine other Merrily Watkins mysteries). Sir William Cecil, the monarch's chief adviser,
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Phil Rickman. Corvus (IPG, dist.), $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-78239-697-0
Rickman effectively builds on the creepy opening of his 15th mystery featuring Anglican minister Merrily Watkins (after 2015’s Friends of the Dusk). Merrily, whose parish is near the Welsh border, feels guilty about the poor quality of the funeral...
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Phil Rickman, Author, Philip Rickman, Author . Quercus $24.95 (544p) ISBN 978-1-905204-51-9
In what may be the most captivating mystery to date in Rickman's Merrily Watkins series (after 2006's The Smile of a Ghost
), victims in several car accidents near the Malvern village of Wychehill report swerving to avoid ghosts. One doesn&
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