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The Remains of an Altar (Merrily Watkins Mysteries) by Rickman, Phil is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mum and Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford, heads for the Malvern Hills to investigate an alleged paranormal dimension to a spate of road accidents in the sleepy village of Wychehill. Merrily is called in when two people are killed in a head-on crash that is also linked to the revamped local pub which, it seems, has injected the valley with a shattering, strobing surge of inner-city nightlife... and drugs. When a dealer is found savagely murdered below the great earthen hillfort of Herefordshire Beacon, police ask: is it a ritual killing, a gangland disposal or a cry of outrage? As Merrily and the police follow separate paths towards the truth, Merrily's teenage daughter, Jane, faces the consequences of her own obsession with a possibly prehistoric site in their home village of Ledwardine. Until, on a night of frenzied violence, in a place at the centre of an ancient, universal mystery, the final, shocking connections are made.
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Rickman, Phil
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781847240910
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thrillers
- Rating
- 4.17 / 5 (54 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- The Remains of an Altar (Merrily Watkins Mysteries) (2013)
- Remains of an Altar: A Merrily Watkins Mystery (Merrily Watkins Mysteries) (2011)
- The Remains of an Altar (Merrily Watkins Mysteries) (2011)
- Ein dunkler Gesang : ein Merrily-Watkins-Mystery (2012)
- Remains of an Altar: A Merrily Watkins Mystery (Merrily Watkins Mysteries) (2016)
- The Remains of an Altar (A Merrily Watkins Mystery, Book 8) (2006)
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