Midwinter of the Spirit
By (Author) Phil Rickman
Atlantic Books
Corvus
8th July 2011
1st June 2011
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
560
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 33mm
386g
They'll follow you home . breathe down your phone at night . a prime target for every psychotic grinder of their dark satanic mills that ever sacrificed a chicken .
Diocesan Exorcist: a job viewed by the Church of England with such extreme suspicion that they changed the name. It's Deliverance Consultant now. Still, it seems, no job for a woman. But when the Bishop offers it to Merrily Watkins, Parish Priest and a single mum - she's in position to refuse.
It starts badly for Merrily and gets no easier. As an early winter slices through the old city of Hereford, a body is found in the River Wye, an acient church is descerated and signs of evil appear in the cathedral itself, where the tomb of a medieval saint lies in pieces.
'A haunting quality unique in crime fiction... rich in atmosphere and practically unique' Great British Fictional Detectives, Russell James 'The paranormal investigator with a down-to-earth attitude. This is no rural paradise' Sunday Telegraph
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 acclaimed author of The Heresy of Dr Dee, The Bones of Avalon, Midwinter of the Spirit (now a major ITV series), the Merrily Watkins series and the John Dee Papers. Visit his website at: www.philrickman.co.uk.