The Fever of the World
The fifteenth gripping novel in the bestselling series from the master of the supernatural thriller
Published on 2. June 2022
368 pages
978-1-78649-460-3 (ISBN)
Description
The fifteenth unputdownable novel in the bestselling Merrily Watkins series
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'Brilliantly eerie' PETER JAMES
'Engrossing and beautifully dark . . . a cracking good read' JO BRAND
'A most original sleuth' THE TIMES
Welcome to the River Wye: a place of poetry, historic obsession... and occult murder.
The curious death of an estate agent is being investigated by detective David Vaynor who, before joining the police, studied the famous 18th century poet William Wordsworth. As Vaynor is discovering, the dark paganism that changed Wordsworth's life still lingers on the banks of the River Wye today - and there are some killings even the police can't approach...
Enter Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mum, and diocesan exorcist for Hereford. Called away from her local hauntings, Merrily finds herself confronting the riverside ghosts who, as Wordsworth puts it, 'promote ill purposes and flatter foul desires'. In the ancient heart of the Wye Valley, a buried grudge is about to come to light.
*Book 16 in the Merrily Watkins series - now a critically acclaimed ITV drama starring Anna Maxwell-Martin!*
More praise for Phil Rickman
'Cleverly illuminates the darkest corners of our imagination' John Connolly
'The layers, the characters, the humour, the spookiness - perfect' Elly Griffiths
'First rate crime with demons that go bump in the night' Daily Mail
'No one writes better of the shadow-frontier between the supernatural and the real world' Bernard Cornwell
____________________________
'Brilliantly eerie' PETER JAMES
'Engrossing and beautifully dark . . . a cracking good read' JO BRAND
'A most original sleuth' THE TIMES
Welcome to the River Wye: a place of poetry, historic obsession... and occult murder.
The curious death of an estate agent is being investigated by detective David Vaynor who, before joining the police, studied the famous 18th century poet William Wordsworth. As Vaynor is discovering, the dark paganism that changed Wordsworth's life still lingers on the banks of the River Wye today - and there are some killings even the police can't approach...
Enter Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mum, and diocesan exorcist for Hereford. Called away from her local hauntings, Merrily finds herself confronting the riverside ghosts who, as Wordsworth puts it, 'promote ill purposes and flatter foul desires'. In the ancient heart of the Wye Valley, a buried grudge is about to come to light.
*Book 16 in the Merrily Watkins series - now a critically acclaimed ITV drama starring Anna Maxwell-Martin!*
More praise for Phil Rickman
'Cleverly illuminates the darkest corners of our imagination' John Connolly
'The layers, the characters, the humour, the spookiness - perfect' Elly Griffiths
'First rate crime with demons that go bump in the night' Daily Mail
'No one writes better of the shadow-frontier between the supernatural and the real world' Bernard Cornwell
Reviews / Votes
No one writes better of the shadow-frontier between the supernatural and the real world. * Bernard Cornwell, praise for Merrily Watkins * Ancient history, violent deaths, feuds, intrigues and murder. A most original sleuth. * The Times, praise for Merrily Watkins * Phil Rickman is one of my all-time favourites. I love everything he's done. * Diana Gabaldon, praise for Merrily Watkins * Tight with atmosphere, thick with latent violence... Brilliantly eerie. * Peter James, praise for Merrily Watkins * Compassionate, original and sharply contemporary, Rickman's crime series is one of the best around. * Spectator, praise for Merrily Watkins * Complex, absorbing, fascinating... * Andrew Taylor, praise for Merrily Watkins * Few writers blend the ancient and supernatural with the modern and criminal better than Rickman. * Guardian, praise for Merrily Watkins * Supremely skillful at teasing out the menace that lies behind English folk customs and legends and weaving them into a compelling contemporary narrative * Mail on Sunday * The layers, the characters, the humour, the spookiness - perfect. * Elly Griffiths, praise for Merrily Watkins * First rate crime with demons that go bump in the night. * Daily Mail, praise for Merrily Watkins * Classic mysteries... [which] cleverly illuminate the darkest corners of our imaginations. * John Connolly, praise for Merrily Watkins * Engrossing and beautifully dark... a cracking good read ensues. * Jo Brand, praise for Merrily Watkins *More details
Series
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Atlantic Books
File size
2,54 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78649-460-3 (9781786494603)
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Phil Rickman
The Fever of the World
The fifteenth gripping novel in the bestselling series from the master of the supernatural thriller
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Phil Rickman lives on the Welsh border where he writes and presents the book programme Phil the Shelf on BBC Radio Wales. He is the hugely popular author of the Merrily Watkins series and the John Dee papers.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Part One
- 1 The lolly and the stick
- 2 Cold fire
- 3 Bringer of Light. Also.
- 4 Reopening an old door
- 5 Burnout
- 6 Dead children
- 7 Doctor's badge
- 8 Woad
- 9 Abodes of darkness
- 10 Confuse a tortured spirit
- Part Two
- 11 Creeping erosion
- 12 Struck by lightning
- 13 Apoplectic
- 14 Joyless heart
- 15 In Agony
- 16 Undercurrents
- 17 Death's Dynamo
- 18 Keys, please
- 19 Along the heart
- 20 Pious bitch
- 21 Metaphysics
- 22 Sealing the can of worms
- 23 Intruder
- 24 A sleep and a forgetting
- 25 Husks
- 26 Other layers of time
- 27 Burial at sea
- Part Three
- 28 Darth
- 29 Finger
- 30 Laid asleep in body
- 31 Mental-patient stuff
- 32 Not just Mum's case
- 33 A decent horror film
- 34 Cold
- 35 Only the moon for light
- 36 Wild surmise
- 37 Called on darkness
- 38 Deep power of joy
- 39 Line through time
- Part Four
- 40 Prey
- 41 No hurry
- 42 Heavy house
- 43 Precocious
- 44 Elohim
- 45 Sour lights
- 46 Still, sad music
- 47 A priest to nobody
- 48 Coming down
- 49 Better come up
- 50 Work
- 51 Learning to die
- 52 The fever
- 53 We are seven
- Notes
