The Echo of Crows - The epic final novel in the bestselling Merrily Watkins series

''Brilliantly eerie'' PETER JAMES

''Engrossing and beautifully dark . . . a cracking good read'' JO BRAND

''A most original sleuth'' THE TIMES


Welcome to the River Wye: 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