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The Lamp of the Wicked

Merrily Watkins, Book 5

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The Lamp of the Wicked

By: Phil Rickman
Narrated by: Emma Powell
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The 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 human depravity.

After half a century of decay, the village of Underhowle looked to be on the brink of a new prosperity. Now, instead, it seems destined for notoriety as the home of a psychotic serial killer.

DI Frannie Bliss, of Hereford CID, is convinced he knows where the bodies are buried, but Merrily Watkins wonders if Bliss isn't blinkered by personal ambition. Are the Underhowle deaths really linked to the legacy of Fred West and the most sickening cycle of killings in British criminal history?

©2003 Phil Rickman (P)2006 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Detective Mystery Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Fiction Paranormal Suspense

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Critic reviews

"Few writers blend the ancient and supernatural with the modern and criminal better than Rickman." (Guardian)

"[T]he research is impeccable...[an] enthralling novel." (Tribune)

"Terrific." (The Times)
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I stumbled upon the first two of the series on the library audio app and I’m hooked. The writing is brilliant, the characters well drawn and always
developing, and the story lines are gripping. Just fab!

Wonderful series

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Loved it! This is a well written and fascinating series, can't get enough, recommended

Another Phill Rickman success

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Really wish Merrily and Jane didn't have cornish accents all of a sudden. Hard to get into it wlhen thats all you can hear 🤦‍♀️

Really wish...

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The author’s work is right up there with Le Carre and Mantel - but the narrator is wrong for these - having read the books I just cannot listen to them - Hopefully it’s just me as the series of books deserve a large audience.

Great book - but the narrator is wrong for it

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