Friends of the Dusk

By Phil Rickman

The discovery of centuries old human bones; a haunted 12th century house; a medieval legend spawning a modern cult... Merrily must piece together a most insidious mystery.

'No-one in the business deals with the spooky stuff better.' - Crime Review UK

'She dragged herself back up, holding her scraped hands inside the sleeves of her parka like paws. As she came to her knees, a sound like laughter was chopped up by the wind, and the woman was back . . .'

A legend of the undead, still seductive, still deadly. A storm unearths a medieval corpse in the old city of Hereford, and the past returns to menace diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Corvus
• Release date: Dec 3, 2015
• ISBN: 9781782396963

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.

Reviews for Friends of the Dusk

[thebentley · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

All the Merrily Watkins books are very good. This one was, if anything, a particularly strong installment, maybe just because I've been away so long...

[ehines_20 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

There's rather a lot of exposition in the first 60 pages or so (characters explaining all kinds of things--relationships, situations--I already know about from having read the previous books). I know this sort of thing might be thought of as necessary, but when the solution is stilted, credulity-beggaring conversations, then it's worse than the problem. Other than that a good if unremarkable addition to this now quite long series of novels.

[Sheena Gurbakhash · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Everything seems to be falling into place quite neatly in terms of this series. On-going feuds and lots of mystery. This one is less of a stand alone- very little from the past is explained- which is great but I wonder if that might be confusing for anyone who picks up this book without having read the rest. Frannie Bliss takes up a lot of space and there is very little mention of village life. No bad thing. An overall fun read even if the ending is a bit abrupt as usual.