Gripping throughout. Powerful, classic stuff.

The Times

Crisp prose, excellent dialogue and real sense of mounting evil.

Time Out

Grimly sinister. Written with blood-curdling aplomb.

Sunday Telegraph

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Phil Rickman is one of my all-time favorites. I love everything he's done, from horror to mystery to supernatural thriller - often all in the same book.

- Diana Gabaldon,

A standalone supernatural thriller from the author of the chilling Merrily Watkins Mysteries.

For four hundred years, the curfew bell has tolled nightly from the church tower of the small country town, Crybbe's only defence against the evil rising unbidden in its haunted streets.

Radio reporter Fay Morrison came to Crybbe because she had no choice. Millionaire music tycoon Max Goff came because there was nothing left to conquer, except the power of the spirit.

But he knew nothing of the town's legacy of dark magic - and nobody felt like telling him...

A PHIL RICKMAN STANDALONE NOVEL

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A standalone supernatural thriller from the author of the chilling Merrily Watkins Mysteries. Every night for 400 years, a curfew bell has tolled from the church tower of Crybbe. Superstitious ritual, or sole defence against an ancient evil?
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Every night for 400 years, a curfew bell has tolled from the church tower of Crybbe. Superstitious ritual, or sole defence against an ancient evil?

Product details

ISBN
9780857896933
Published
2013-04-01
Publisher
Atlantic Books; Corvus
Weight
472 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
42 mm
Age
00, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
688

Author

Biographical note

Phil Rickman was born in Lancashire and lives on the Welsh border where he writes and presents the book programme Phil the Shelf on BBC Radio Wales. He is the acclaimed author of Dr Dee, The Bones of Avalon, Midwinter Spirit (now a major ITV series), the Merrily Watkins Mysteries and the John Dee papers.

Visit his website at: www.philrickman.co.uk