The Magus of Hay - A Merrily Watkins Mystery

When a man's body is discovered near the picturesque town of Hay-on-Wye, his death appears to be 'unnatural' in every sense. Merrily Watkins is drafted in to investigate.

'Rickman's writing style reflects his subject matter: spooky and indirect, elegantly crafted but always a sense of shadow behind you, that you've missed something you should have seen.' - New York Review Of Books

'The wind was rising. A smokey cloud-mass shaped like a rabbit made a forward bound in slow motion and came apart over Hay Castle a mile away on the horizon . . .'

Hay-on-Wye: the Welsh-border town that became world-famous for declaring independence and crowning its own king. But now black clouds are gathering, to meet rising shadows from the past. As the town fights for its future, a man drowns in a deep pool below a waterfall, a woman disappears, and diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins - alone and vulnerable - uncovers a secret history of dark magic and ritual murder.

About the author

Phil Rickman, geboren in Lancashire, ist ein englischer Autor und Radiomoderator. Zu seinen Werken gehören auch bemerkenswert erfolgreiche Spannungsromane, die er unter dem Pseudonym Will Kingdom verfasst. Seit Ende der neunziger Jahre schreibt er an seiner Krimireihe um Merrily Watkins, die in England seit langem Kult-Status genießt.

Summary

The twelfth instalment in the Merrily Watkins series: When a man's body is discovered near the picturesque town of Hay-on-Wye, his death appears to be 'unnatural' in every sense. Merrily Watkins is drafted in to investigate.

Foreword

The twelfth instalment in the Merrily Watkins series: When a man's body is discovered near the picturesque town of Hay-on-Wye, his death appears to be 'unnatural' in every sense. Merrily Watkins is drafted in to investigate.

Report

Interweaves the threads of murder, police procedure, the power of landscape and faint but potent wisps of the supernatural to produce a literary cloth of gold. A unique talent in cracking form. Crime Fiction Lover

Product details

• Authors: Phil Rickman, Rickman Phil
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.06.2014
• EAN: 9780857898685
• ISBN: 978-0-85789-868-5
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 328 g
• Series: Merrily Watkins; Merrily Watkins Mystery; Merrily Watkins Series; Merrily Watkins Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION / Thrillers / Supernatural, FICTION / Ghost, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FICTION / Gothic, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Occult fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Horror and supernatural fiction, Crime and mystery: women sleuths