The Secrets of Pain - Couverture souple

Rickman, Phil

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848872755 ISBN 13 : 9781848872752

Editeur : Corvus, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Rickman Phil

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Ancient history, violent deaths, feuds, intrigues and murder. A most original sleuth. - The Times

First rate crime with demons that go bump in the night. - Daily Mail

Compassionate, original and sharply contemporary, Rickman's crime series is one of the best around. - Spectator

Few writers blend the ancient and supernatural with the modern and criminal better than Rickman. - Guardian

Rickman's writing [is] spooky and indirect, elegantly crafted but always a sense... that you've missed something you should have seen. - New York Review Of Books

A wonderful, enthralling read. Huge tensions. All too believable. You are there with poor Merrily every step of the way. - Daily Express

First class Guardian

One of the best Spectator

Compelling Mail on Sunday

First rate Daily Mail

Wonderful Daily Express

Terrific the Times

Wonderfully original Daily Telegraph

Spine-tingling... Delightfully sinister - CrimeReview.co.uk

Phil Rickman is one of my all-time favourites. I love everything he's done. - Diana Gabaldon

Complex, absorbing, fascinating... - Andrew Taylor

The layers, the characters, the humour, the spookiness - perfect. - Elly Griffiths

No shortage of excitement. - Ruth Rendell

Tight with atmosphere, thick with latent violence... Brilliantly eerie. - Peter James

What a shame I've read all this fab writer's books. - Katie Fforde

Imbues paranormal fiction with subtlety, ambiguity and uncertainty like no other writer. - F.G. Cottam

Mysteries in the classic sense, cleverly combining the supernatural and criminal elements to illuminate the darkest corners of our imaginations. - John Connolly

Scared the sh-t out of me. - Jo Brand

Well-written, haunting. - Jeff Abbott

No-one writes better of the shadow-frontier between the supernatural and the real world. - Bernard Cornwell

--Bernard Cornwell

Présentation de l'éditeur :

***SIGNED COLLECTORS' EDITION*** INTRODUCING MERRILY Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mother, exorcist, works for the Diocese of Hereford in a remote village on the border of England and Wales. Like many men and women doing an essentially medieval job in an increasingly secular society, she's never certain how much she can permit herself to believe. It doesn't help that she sometimes has to work with psychiatrists and the police. Or that her employer, the Church of England, is far from free of prejudice, sexism, greed and corruption. Or that Merrily's teenage daughter is more interested in paganism than the priesthood. No wonder she smokes. No wonder she occasionally lapses into language hard to find in the Bible. THE SECRETS OF PAIN The elite warriors of the Hereford-based SAS know all about pain and the enduring of it. Syd Spicer, ex-SAS trooper, has found himself back the Regiment - this time as its chaplain, responsible for the spiritual welfare of the hardest men in or out of uniform. Faced with a case which would normally be passed discreetly to Hereford diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins, Spicer is forced, for security reasons, to try and handle it himself...and is coming close to a breakdown. Meanwhile, the scattered communities along the Welsh border have their own crisis. With recession biting deep, urban crime has spilled into the countryside and old barbaric evils are revived. When a wealthy landowner is hacked to death in his own farmyard, the senior investigating officer, DI Frannie Bliss is caught in the backlash, his private life in danger of exposure. With the framework of her own world beginning to crack, Merrily Watkins is persuaded to venture into areas where neither a priest nor a woman is welcome...to unearth secrets linked with the border's pagan past. Secrets which she knows can never be disclosed.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Corvus
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1848872755
• ISBN 13: 9781848872752
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 592