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<p>In 1934, the dying composer Sir Edward Elgar feebly whistled to a friend the theme from his Cello Concerto and said, If you're walking on the Malvern Hills and hear that, don't be frightened. It's only me. Seventy years later, Merrily Watkins&#8212;parish priest and Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford&#8212;is called in to investigate an alleged paranormal dimension in a spate of road accidents in the Malvern village of Wychehill. There, Merrily discovers new tensions in Elgar's countryside. The proposed takeover of a local pub by a nightclub owner with a criminal reputation has become the battleground between the defenders of Olde Englande and the hard men of the drug world&#8212;with extreme and sinister elements on both sides. And as the choral society prepares to stage an open-air performance of Elgar's <U>Caractacus</U> at a prehistoric hill fort, the deaths begin&#8230;Another spellbinding thriller in Phil Rickman's lauded occult mystery series.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p><P>In what may be the most captivating mystery to date in Rickman's Merrily Watkins series (after 2006's <I>The Smile of a Ghost</I>), victims in several car accidents near the Malvern

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Author
Philip Rickman
Publisher
Trafalgar Square
Published
2006
Language
EN
ISBN
9781905204519
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller
Rating
4.17 / 5 (932 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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