The Chalice

Glastonbury, legendary resting place of the Holy Grail, is a mysterious and haunting town. But when plump, dizzy Diane Ffitch returns home, it's with a sense of deep unease - and not only about her aristocratic family's reaction to her broken engagement and her New Age companions.

Plans for a new motorway have intensified the old bitterness between the local people and the 'pilgrims', so already the sacred air is soured. And, as the town becomes increasingly split by violence and death, Diane, local bookseller Juanita Carey and the writer Joe Powys must now face up to the worst of all possibilities: the existence of an anti-Grail - the dark chalice.

About the author

PHIL RICKMAN lives on the Welsh border where he writes and presents the book programme Phil the Shelf on BBC Radio Wales. He is the hugely popular author of The Bones of Avalon, The Heresy of Dr Dee and the Merrily Watkins Mysteries.

Summary

A standalone supernatural thriller from the author of the chilling Merrily Watkins Mysteries. Glastonbury Tor is the legendary resting place of the Holy Grail. But something else also rests beneath the hill...

Foreword

A standalone supernatural thriller from the author of the chilling Merrily Watkins Mysteries. Glastonbury Tor is the legendary resting place of the Holy Grail. But something else also rests beneath the hill...

Product details

• Authors: Phil Rickman, Phil (Author) Rickman, Philip Rickman, Rickman Phil
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2013
• EAN: 9780857896964
• ISBN: 978-0-85789-696-4
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 364 g
• Series: Phil Rickman Standalone; Phil Rickman Standalone
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Thrillers / Supernatural, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FICTION / Gothic, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Occult fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Horror and supernatural fiction