The Lamp of the Wicked
By Phil Rickman
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Merrily must unearth the mysteries of the decaying village of Underhowle, and tackle a particularly stubborn Detective Inspector who strays off course...
'Few writers blend the ancient and supernatural with the modern and criminal better than Rickman.' - Guardian
'You're looking at his inspiration. These are ones he wishes he'd done, the ones he wishes he'd got to first.'
After half a century of decay, the village of Underhowle looked to be on the brink of a new prosperity. Now, instead, it seems destined for notoriety as the home of a psychotic serial killer.
DI Frannie Bliss, of Hereford CID, is convinced he knows where the bodies are buried, but Merrily Watkins wonders if Bliss isn't blinkered by personal ambition. Are the Underhowle deaths really linked to the legacy of Fred West and the most sickening cycle of killings in British criminal history?
Phil Rickman
PHIL RICKMAN lives on the Welsh border where he writes and presents the book programme Phil the Shelf on BBC Radio Wales. He is the hugely popular author of The Bones of Avalon, The Heresy of Dr Dee and the Merrily Watkins Mysteries.
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Reviews for The Lamp of the Wicked
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Awesome writing, and the tendrils that Rickman bought together; extremely interesting, nauseating and horrifying( & the coincidences!!) the legacy that some evils can have on society. So interesting.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jane is so annoying in this book. She was always a difficult character to write but she is utterly delusional at times.
I feel so sorry for Merrily. In the first book Merrily felt she was being utterly manipulated. Nothing has changed. Just once I'd like to see her turn the tables which I why I keep reading this series in the hope things will work out for her.