Name: The Remains of an Altar

Author: Phil Rickman
Year: 2006
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9781905204519
1905204515		 Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mother and Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford, heads for the Malvern Hills to investigate an alleged paranormal dimension to a spate of road accidents in the sleepy village of Wychehill. Merrily is called in when two people are killed in a head-on crash that is also linked to the revamped local pub which, it seems, has injected the valley with a shattering, strobing surge of inner-city nightlife... and drugs. When a dealer is found savagely murdered below the great earthen hillfort of Herefordshire Beacon, police ask: is it a ritual killing, a gangland disposal or a cry of outrage? As Merrily and the police follow separate paths towards the truth, Merrily's teenage daughter, Jane, faces the consequences of her own obsession with a possibly prehistoric site in their home village of Ledwardine. Until, on a night of frenzied violence, in a place at the centre of an ancient, universal mystery, the final, shocking connections are made.
This book is part of the "Merrily Watkins" series. Here are some other books from this series:
"All of a Winter's Night"
First published in 2017
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"Friends of the Dusk"
First published in 2015
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"The Magus of Hay"
First published in 2013
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"The Secrets of Pain"
First published in 2011
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"To Dream of the Dead"
First published in 2008
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"The Fabric of Sin"
First published in 2007
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"The Prayer of the Night Shepherd"
First published in 2004
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"The Lamp of the Wicked"
First published in 2003
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"A Crown of Lights"
First published in 2001
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"The Cure of Souls"
First published in 2001
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"Midwinter of the Spirit"
First published in 1999
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"The Wine of Angels"
First published in 1998
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"The Smile of a Ghost"
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