'A smile so cold, so bleak, so devoid of hope ... only this perpetual, bitter ... terminality.' In the affluent, historic town of Ludlow, a teenage boy dies in a fall from the castle ruins. Accident or suicide? No great mystery, so why does the boy's uncle, newly-retired detective sergeant Andy Mumf
The Smile of a Ghost
β Scribed by Rickman, Phil
- Book ID
- 109236201
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 253 KB
- Series
- Merrily Watkins 7
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780857890153
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β¦ Synopsis
Merrily is called to investigate a possible ghost sighting in her seventh fascinating adventure
In the affluent, historic town of Ludlow, a teenage boy dies in a fall from the castle ruins. Accident or suicide? No great mysteryβso why does the boy's uncle, retired detective Andy Mumford, turn to diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins? More people will die before Merrily, her own future uncertain, uncovers a dangerous obsession with suicide, death, and the afterlife hidden within these shadowed medieval streets.
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In the affluent, historic town of Ludlow, a teenage boy dies in a fall from the castle ruins. Accident or suicide? No great mystery - so why does the boy's uncle, retired detective Andy Mumford, turn to diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins? More people will die before Merrily, her own future uncertain,
'A smile so cold, so bleak, so devoid of hope ... only this perpetual, bitter ... terminality.' In the affluent, historic town of Ludlow, a teenage boy dies in a fall from the castle ruins. Accident or suicide? No great mystery, so why does the boy's uncle, newly-retired detective sergeant Andy Mumf
Overview: Phil Rickman, born in Lancashire, has won awards for his TV and radio journalism. After five acclaimed novels, he introduced the fascinating Merrily Watkins series with The Wine of Angels. He is married and lives on the Welsh Border.
**The Prayer of the Night Shepherd ** A crumbling hotel on the border of England and Wales. A suggestion of inherited evil, a strange love affair... and the long-disputed origins of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's _The Hound of the Baskervilles_. Young Jane Watkins is fascinated, but her mother, Merrily,