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The Wine of Angels (Merrily Watkins 1) [Kindle Edition]

Phil Rickman (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (102 customer reviews)
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THE FIRST IN THE INCREDIBLE MERRILY WATKINS SERIESMerrily Watkins: late thirties, single mum, parish priest. Cosy? I don't think so...The new vicar had never wanted a picture-postcard parish - or a huge and haunted vicarage. Nor had she wanted to walk into a dispute over a controversial play about a seventeenth-century clergyman accused of witchcraft... a story that certain long-established families would rather remained obscure.But this is Ledwardine, steeped in cider and secrets...A paradise of cobbled streets and timber-framed houses. And also - as Merrily Watkins and her teenage daughter, Jane, discover - a village where horrific murder is a tradition that spans centuries.

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The Revd Merrily Watkins had never wanted a picture-postcard parish - or a huge and haunted vicarage. Nor had she particularly wanted to walk straight into a local dispute over a controversial play about a strange seventeeth-century clergyman accused of witchcraft ... a story that certain old-established families would rather remained obscure. But this is Ledwardine, steeped in cider and secrets. A paradise of cobbled streets and timber-framed houses. And also - as Merrily and her teenage daughter Jane discover - a village where horrific murder is a tradition that spans centuries.
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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 1114 KB
  • Print Length: 589 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0857890093
  • Publisher: Corvus (1 April 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B004S7BBOK
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (102 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #11,554 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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68 of 69 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A welcome return 11 April 2011
By Mr. T. Young
Format:Paperback
This is a very welcome re-issue of the first in Phil Rickman's Merrily Watkins series.
Here Merrily, as the new 'priest in charge' in the picturesque Herefordshire Village of Ledwardine, finds herself in the middle of a local disagreement about the possibility of using the church to stage a new play - about a previous incumbent who was accused of witchcraft - and more.
She also has to contend with a possibly haunted vicarage and problems with her teenage daughter Jane, who has Pagan tendencies and isn't at all happy about her mother's vocation.
And all this is before the killings start!
A marvellous, richly atmospheric story which will keep you enthralled right to the end. If you've never read a Merrily novel, this is the ideal place to start - but, if you have read any of the later books, do buy this one and find out how it all began.
Once you're hooked - and you will be - don't despair if you can't find the rest of the series, they are all to be republished at bi-monthly intervals.
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69 of 71 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Rickman is the Master 1 Feb 2009
By Mr
Format:Paperback
When you are SO bored of "Da Vinci Mode" books, badly written with vapid and badly drawn out female characters come home to Britain with possibly the best series of mystery/thrillers being written today. I happened across this book in a second hand book shop one summer and spent a cracking weekend sitting in the garden getting to know Merrily, Jane and Ledwardine.
Since then I have read all of the series and like all sustained efforts at writing it had its ups and its downs, but above and beyond that if you, like me, think that entertaining reading does not have to be simplistic this is the book for you. I envy you if you are about to click and hit the basket because going to Ledwardine for the first time is always the best. Turn down the lights, put another log on the fire and have a frothy mug of hot chocolate at the ready...Wine of Angels will keep you up late!
Possibly the most innovative and unique thriller writer working in the UK today. I often used to get confused on the series order...I would say read them in order if you can...it doesn't matter if you can't but the growth of the characters is so much clearer!

The Wine of Angels (1998)
Midwinter of the Spirit (1999)
A Crown of Lights (2001)
The Cure of Souls (2001)
The Lamp of the Wicked (2002)
The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (2004)
The Smile of a Ghost (2005)
The Remains of an Altar (2006)
The Fabric of Sin (2007)
To Dream of the Dead (2008)
The Secrets of Pain (2011)
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Pink Moon is gonna get ye all 29 Oct 2006
By A. Watson
Format:Paperback
Rickman seduces you into his sleepy, pastoral village of Ledwardine with promises of home brewed cider and fairies at the bottom of the orchard. Only when it's too late for the reader/listener to catch the last bus home does he scratch away the surface to reveal the sordid underbelly of English country life doused in incest, blood-feuds, rape and murder.

This, the first of the Merrily Watkins procedurals is a ghost story wrapped inside a mystery and bound tightly together with the twine of dark folklore. It also delivers a plot twist that gives the sort of jolt you would normally only expect from a gibbet trapdoor.

As always Rickman's dialogue is a joy as he fleshes out the various suicidal dreamers, quirky eccentrics and sexual predators who inhabit his strange little village. As Nick Drake, the quintessential lost soul himself, who makes an eerie cameo role in the book says - The Pink Moon is gonna get you all!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Opener to a very good series
Was going to give the book four stars but felt somewhat churlish as I have read all the rest of the books and in general find them all intelligent page turners if that is not a... Read more
Published 13 days ago by Csmith1000
5.0 out of 5 stars Still brilliant!!
This was my second reading and found it just as enthralling as the first time. Love all of Phils books
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I love a novel that draws you in, that is subtle and understated leaving much to the reader's imagination, that has characters who grow on you, that has an intricate well-plotted... Read more
Published 19 days ago by J. Proctor
1.0 out of 5 stars Boring!!!
I cannot believe the amount of 4 or 5 star ratings this book had been given by readers. Because of that fact I did perservere with it until about half way through, thinking I must... Read more
Published 21 days ago by Ann
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliance Begins
This is a review for the entire Merrily series rather than just the Wine of Angels.

It's difficult to narrow down why I feel this series of books is so good. Read more
Published 1 month ago by James Patrick
5.0 out of 5 stars The First Merrily Watkins Mystery got me Hooked
I really love this series, the characters develop nicely from one book to the next and the plots are interesting.
Published 1 month ago by Fran
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed
I think that I must not have read previous reviews of this book correctly as I did not realise that this was a ghost story which made it immediately difficult to read as this is a... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Charlie Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars Will read more in this series
I was recommended this by a friend on Goodreads and thoroughly enjoyed it. Spooky but not too scary, and a gripping story.
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