The Smile of a Ghost (Merrily Watkins 7) (Merrily Watkins Series)

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Review ------ Ancient history, violent deaths, feuds, intrigues and murder. A most original sleuth. - The Times First rate crime with demons that go bump in the night. - Daily Mail Compassionate, original and sharply contemporary, Rickman's crime series is one of the best around. - Spectator Few writers blend the ancient and supernatural with the modern and criminal better than Rickman. - Guardian Rickman's writing [is] spooky and indirect, elegantly crafted but always a sense... that you've missed something you should have seen. - New York Review Of Books A wonderful, enthralling read. Huge tensions. All too believable. You are there with poor Merrily every step of the way. - Daily Express First class – Guardian One of the best – Spectator Compelling – Mail on Sunday First rate – Daily Mail Wonderful – Daily Express Terrific – the Times Wonderfully original – Daily Telegraph Spine-tingling... Delightfully sinister - CrimeReview.co.uk Phil Rickman is one of my all-time favourites. I love everything he's done. - Diana Gabaldon Complex, absorbing, fascinating… - Andrew Taylor The layers, the characters, the humour, the spookiness - perfect. - Elly Griffiths No shortage of excitement. - Ruth Rendell Tight with atmosphere, thick with latent violence… Brilliantly eerie. - Peter James What a shame I've read all this fab writer's books. - Katie Fforde Imbues paranormal fiction with subtlety, ambiguity and uncertainty like no other writer. - F.G. Cottam Mysteries in the classic sense, cleverly combining the supernatural and criminal elements to illuminate the darkest corners of our imaginations. - John Connolly ed the sh-t out of me. - Jo Brand Well-written, haunting. - Jeff Abbott No-one writes better of the shadow-frontier between the supernatural and the real world. - Bernard Cornwell Book Description ---------------- The seventh instalment in the Merrily Watkins series: The Parish Priest must solve the mystery of a young boy's deathly fall from the Ludlow Castle ruins, and discovers a hidden obsession with the afterlife amongst the ancient streets...