Táto séria sleduje život Merrily Watkins, anglikánskej kňažky a slobodnej matky, ktorá sa vyrovnáva s komplexnými prípadmi vrážd a záhad. Príbeh sa odohráva v malebnom, no tajomnom prostredí neďaleko waleských hraníc. Každá časť ponúka napínavý kriminálny príbeh pretkaný osobnými dilemami hlavnej hrdinky a jej duchovnými otázkami. Je to pútavé čítanie pre milovníkov detektívok s nádychom psychologickej drámy a sociálnych tém.
The Revd Merrily Watkins had never wanted a picture-postcard parish - or a huge and haunted vicarage. Nor had she particularly wanted to walk straight into a local dispute over a controversial play about a strange seventeeth-century clergyman accused of witchcraft ... a story that certain old-established families would rather remained obscure. But this is Ledwardine, steeped in cider and secrets. A paradise of cobbled streets and timber-framed houses. And also - as Merrily and her teenage daughter Jane discover - a village where horrific murder is a tradition that spans centuries.
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.The post of Diocesan Exorcist in the Church of England has changed to the preferred term Deliverance Consultant. It sounds less sinister, more caring, so why not a job for a woman? When offered the post the Rev. Merrily Watkins cannot easily refuse, having suffered uncanny experiences of her own.
When a derelict country church is bought by a pagan couple, the local evangelical minister reacts with fury. A modern witch hunt begins, and Merrily Watkins is expected to keep a lid on the cauldron. Meanwhile, there is the problem of the man who won’t be parted from his dead wife, the ancient mystery of the five local churches dedicated to St. Michael, and a killer with an old tradition to guard.
The fourth instalment in the Merrily Watkins series: A school girl possessed
by evil spirits and a savage murder; Merrily is once again drawn into the
deadly tangle of deceit and mystery in rural Herefordshire...
The fifth instalment in the Merrily Watkins series: Merrily must unearth the
mysteries of the decaying village of Underhowle, and tackle a particularly
stubborn Detective Inspector who strays off course...
The sixth instalment in the Merrily Watkins series: Hereford's Diocesan
Exorcist must encounter a legacy of evil within the crumbling walls of an old
hotel along with memories of murder...
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...
In high summer, darkness descends on Elgar's England. Investigating a series
of road accidents in the Malvern Hills, Merrily Watkins stumbles into a barbed
tangle of alienation, murder... and a mystical obsession with the landscape.
NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA The Master House, close to the Welsh border, is medieval and slowly falling into ruins. Now the house and its surrounding land have been sold to the Duchy of Cornwall. But the Duchy's plans to renovate the house and its outbuildings are frustrated when the specialist builder refuses to work there. 'This is a place,' he tells the Prince's land-steward, 'that doesn't want to be restored.' Directed by the Bishop of Hereford to investigate, deliverance consultant Merrily Watkins discovers ancient connections between the house and the nearby church, built by the Knights Templar whose shadow still envelopes isolated Garway Hill and its scattered communities. Why did all the local inns have astrological names? What deep history lies behind the vicious feud between two local families? And what happened here to intimidate even the great Edwardian ghost-story writer M R James? When Merrily learns that she - and even her daughter, Jane - are under surveillance by the security services, she's ready to quit. But a sudden death changes everything, and she returns to Garway to uncover fibres of fear and hatred stitched into history and now insidiously twisted in the corridors - and the cloisters - of power.
With the flood water washing up Church Lane towards the vicarage and the shop
running out of cigarettes it looks like a cold and complex Christmas for
Merrily Watkins in an ancient community forced to untangle its own history
against the swirling uncertainty of the future.
When a man's body is discovered below a waterfall in the picturesque town of Hay-on-Wye, his death appears to be "unnatural" in every sense and Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mother, and exorcist, is drafted in to investigate.
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 modernizing 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 an 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.
The latest eerie supernatural thriller featuring the unforgettable Merrily
Watkins - parish priest, single mother and exorcist. Perfect for fans of John
Connolly, Ruth Rendell and Midsomer Murders.
