2023/090: The Wine of Angels — Phil Rickman

2023/090: The Wine of Angels — Phil Rickman

'...standing in that orchard, covered with that poor old bloke’s blood, that was when I decided to go for it. I clearly remember thinking that nothing so immediate and so utterly shocking ever happened quite that close to me in Liverpool. That maybe, in some ways, this village could actually be the sharp end. I thought, am I going to wash off his blood and walk away?’ [loc. 339]

Set in the charming and picturesque Herefordshire village of Ledwardine, and featuring single mother Merrily Watkins and her teenaged daughter Jane as they arrive in the village and adjust to local life, this -- the first in the Merrily Watkins series -- has all the ingredients of a cosy mystery. It also features apples, poetry, the Church, and a long-standing tradition of violence, prejudice and paganism.

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