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The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (Merrily Watkins Mysteries) by Rickman, Phil is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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There were certain phrases you could feel, like fingers up your spine. Hattie Chancery's room. The possessive. Present tense. Oh God... 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. Fascinating for young Jane Watkins, flushed by the freedom of her first weekend job. But the sinister side becomes increasingly apparent to her mother, Merrily, diocesan exorcist for Hereford. Then come memories of a child-killer, blood in the fresh snow... From Publishers Weekly When unemployed TV producer Ben Foley discovers that running murder-mystery weekends at Stanner Hall, an old Herefordshire mansion turned hotel hes purchased, isnt as profitable as he anticipated, he determines to prove his theory that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had in mind a tale from the Welsh border region, not Devon, for the background to The Hound of the Baskervilles. In British author Rickmans chilling fifth entry in his occult crime series (The Lamp of the Wicked, etc.) featuring Merrily Watkins, the single mom, Anglican priest and exorcist gets involved in sinister doings
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- Author
- Rickman, Phil
- Publisher
- Corvus
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780857890146
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, True Crime, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (830 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (Merrily Watkins Mysteries) (2004)
- The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (Merrily Watkins Mysteries) (2012)
- The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (2012)
- The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (A Merrily Watkins Mystery) (2004)
- The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (Merrily Watkins Mysteries) (2021)
- Merrily Watkins 06 - The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (2011)
- The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (Merrily Watkins Mysteries) (2011)
- The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (2004)
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