The Echo of Crows (Merrily Watkins #16)

'Brilliantly eerie' PETER JAMES
'Engrossing and beautifully dark . . . a cracking good read' JO BRAND
'A most original sleuth' THE TIMES

Welcome to the River a place of poetry, historic obsession... and occult murder.

Nestled deep in the Black Mountains, the village of Longtown is haunted by the double suicide of a lottery winner and his wife.

A rich Londoner, unaware of the town's dark history, buys the dead man's cottage in the hopes of refurbishing it...then begins to fall victim to a host of bad luck.

Luckily DS David Vaynor and Merrily Watkins - parish priest, single mum and renowned demon exorcist - are on the case.
More praise for Phil Rickman

'Cleverly illuminates the darkest corners of our imagination' John Connolly

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

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

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