The remains of an altar : a Merrily Watkins mystery
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- ISBN: 9781847240910 (mass market pbk.) :
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506 p. ; 18 cm. - Publisher: London : Quercus, 2006.
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General Note: | "A Merrily Watkins mystery" -- Cover. |
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Subject: | Watkins, Merrily (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Women clergy -- England -- Fiction Village communities -- England -- Herefordshire -- Fiction Herefordshire (England) -- Fiction |
Genre: | Mystery fiction. Occult fiction. |
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Hazelton Public Library | PBA - Mystery (Text) | 35154000070924 | Adult Mystery Paperback- Green Dot Spin Racks | Volume hold | Available | - |
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Summary:
In 1934, the dying composer Sir Edward Elgar feebly whistled to a friend the theme from his Cello Concerto and said, "If you're walking on the Malvern Hills and hear that, don't be frightened. It's only me." Seventy years later, Merrily Watkins — parish priest and Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford — is called in to investigate an alleged paranormal dimension in a spate of road accidents in the Malvern village of Wychehill. There, Merrily discovers new tensions in Elgar's countryside. The proposed takeover of a local pub by a nightclub owner with a criminal reputation has become the battleground between the defenders of Olde Englande and the hard men of the drug world — with extreme and sinister elements on both sides. And as the choral society prepares to stage an open-air performance of Elgar's Caractacus at a prehistoric hill fort, the deaths begin…