- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan (5 Jun 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333644859
- ISBN-13: 978-0333644850
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 4.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 736,673 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The new vicar in the village of Ledwardine does not need a haunted vicarage, or controversy over the first Ledwardine Festival. The event's focus is the mysterious death of a previous minister during the 17th-century witch-hunts. Then a girl disappears and an old apple-tree bears fruit.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Rickman is the Master,
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This review is from: The Wine Of Angels (Merrily Watkins Mysteries) (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)
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pink Moon is gonna get ye all,
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This review is from: The Wine Of Angels (Merrily Watkins Mysteries) (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!
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Read this book!!!,
This review is from: The Wine Of Angels (Merrily Watkins Mysteries) (Paperback)
The Wine of Angels is a fantastic book - deceptively quiet, with few moments out out-and-out horror; despite that though, it is still a brilliantly suspenseful ghost story. The lead character, Merrily Watkins, is very sympathetic, and well merits her own continuing series (which are all definitely worth reading). Ever since Crybbe/Curfew (Rickan's first highly-rare book) Rickman has been edging away from the fantastical in his work, but this is the first of his books which strikes the perfect medium between realism and fantasy/horror, and it's definitely the best one he's ever written. As annoyingly obvious a label as it is, Rickman's writing is reminiscent of Stephen King, but not due to it's content; it's more because of the superb characterisations which are what make King's, and Rickman's, books so good. Rickman is also especially good at conveying the setting of his novel - a sinister England/Wales borderland. Also, credit to him for introducing the amazing musician Nick Drake to more people.This book is definitely worth a read, as Rickman is a superb author, and deserves to be much wider read than he is.
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