The Lamp of the Wicked

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'The book that will mark his final, well-deserved breakthrough into the very first rank of thriller writers' Daily Mail The village of Underhowle appeared to be on the brink of a new prosperity after half a century of decay ... but now, instead, it seems destined for notoriety as the home of a psychotic serial killer of women. Dl Francis Bliss, of Hereford CID, is convinced he knows where the bodies are buried, but diocesan Deliverance Consultant Merrily Watkins - called in to conduct a controversial funeral - wonders if Bliss isn't blinkered by personal ambition. And are the Underhowle deaths really linked to possibly the most sickening mass murders in British criminal history? This 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 humán depravity. 'Subtle ... chilling ... The underlying themes of change, conflict, hidden worlds and inexplicable evil are... Tovább

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'The book that will mark his final, well-deserved breakthrough into the very first rank of thriller writers' Daily Mail The village of Underhowle appeared to be on the brink of a new prosperity after half a century of decay ... but now, instead, it seems destined for notoriety as the home of a psychotic serial killer of women. Dl Francis Bliss, of Hereford CID, is convinced he knows where the bodies are buried, but diocesan Deliverance Consultant Merrily Watkins - called in to conduct a controversial funeral - wonders if Bliss isn't blinkered by personal ambition. And are the Underhowle deaths really linked to possibly the most sickening mass murders in British criminal history? This 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 humán depravity. 'Subtle ... chilling ... The underlying themes of change, conflict, hidden worlds and inexplicable evil are a reminder that good fiction based on unsettling ideas can be as illuminating as any number of earnest documentaries' Sunday Mercury 'As no other crime novelist does, he deals with an area where belief and religion intersect with crime and justice. Let's just hope the television series is even half as good as the books' Andrew Taylor, Crime Time 'Monumentally ambitious ... Merrily links criminal, psychological, morál, sociological, spiritual, and supernatural realms to dig deeper into evil-doing just when most fictional sleuths would be calling it quits' Kirkus Reviews Vissza