The first in thehistorically rich, atmosphericmystery series featuring female exorcist Reverend Merrily Watkins The new vicar had never wanted a picture-postcard parish or a huge and haunted vicarage.
Nor had she wanted to walk into a dispute over a controversial play about a 17th-century clergyman accused of witchcraft, a story that certain long-established families would rather remained obscure.
But this is Ledwardine, steeped in cider and secrets.
A paradise of cobbled streets and timber-framed houses.
And also as Merrily Watkins and her teenage daughter, Jane, discover a village where horrific murder is a tradition that spans centuries.
Atlantic Books (uk) The wine of angels, paperback/phil rickman
