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The Lamp of the Wicked

Merrily Watkins, Book 5

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By: Phil Rickman
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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 Crime Murder Suspense

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

Another Phill Rickman success

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Don’t read true crime. Feel like I had it forced upon me. Too many references to the Wests

Enjoy the series

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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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I’m addicted to this series now and am devouring them one after the other. I found this hard going though. It’s very dark. Not really bedtime reading. If you’re a sensitive soul i’d recommend missing this one out and going on to next in the series.

Brilliant! But very dark

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Love Phil Rickman's books. and they have all been narrated really well so far. I'll continue his books

Well written and well narrated too

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