• Friends of the Dusk

  • Merrily Watkins, Book 14
  • By: Phil Rickman
  • Narrated by: Emma Powell
  • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins

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Friends of the Dusk

By: Phil Rickman
Narrated by: Emma Powell
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Publisher's summary

When autumn storms blast Hereford, centuries-old human bones are found among the roots of a tree blown down on the city's Castle Green. But why have they been stolen? At the nearby Cathedral, another storm is building around a modernising new bishop who believes that if the Church is to survive, it must phase out irrelevant archaic practices. Not good news for Merrily Watkins, consultant on the paranormal or, as it used to be known, diocesan exorcist. Especially as she's now presented with the job at its most medieval.

In the moody countryside on the edge of Wales, a rambling 12th-century house is thought to be haunted. Although its new owners don't believe in ghosts, they do believe in spiritual darkness and the need for exorcism. But their approach to Merrily is oblique and guarded. No one can be told – least of all, the new bishop. Merrily's discovery of the house's links with the medieval legend of a man who resisted mortality threatens to expose the hidden history of a more modern cult and its trail of insidious abuse – a trail that may not be closed.

©2013 Phil Rickman (P)2014 Isis Audio

Critic reviews

'No-one in the business deals with the spooky stuff better.' (Crime Review UK)
'Intelligent rationalists will enjoy the way Rickman engages with the supernatural.' (The Times)
'Rickman's series is gaining a mass of fans with each book. This one will keep you entranced until the final page.' (Crimesquad.com)

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