Phil Rickman

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1993
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Reverend Merrily Watkins Mystery

1 - The Wine of Angels (Mar-1999)
2 - Midwinter of the Spirit (Dec-2000)
3 - A Crown of Lights (Aug-2002)
4 - The Cure of Souls (Jul-2002)
5 - The Lamp of the Wicked (May-2003)
6 - The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (Apr-2004)
7 - The Smile of a Ghost (Nov-2005)
8 - The Remains of an Altar (Nov-2006)
9 - The Fabric of Sin (Nov-2007)
10 - To Dream of the Dead (Oct-2008)
11 - The Secrets of Pain (Sep-2011)
12 - The Magus of Hay (Jan-2014)
12.5 - The House of Susan Lulham (Jan-2016)
13 - Friends of the Dusk (Feb-2016)
14 - All of a Winter's Night (Apr-2017)
15 - For the Hell of It (Nov-2019)
16 - The Fever of the World (Jul-2023)

Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Crybbe

  • Curfew

    Every night for 400 years, a curfew bell has tolled from the church tower of Crybbe -- superstitious ritual or sole defense against an ancient evil?In Crybbe, only strangers walk at twilight . . . For 400 years, the curfew bell has tolled nightly fro...

  • Candlenight

    A supernatural thriller exploring the darker side of rural life in a remote Welsh mountain village, where primal fears and ancient longings haunt the present dayCorpse-candles. Phantom funerals. The bird of death. It was insidious . . . For Bethan, t...

  • December

    In the ruins of a haunted medieval abbey, four musicians hope to tap into the site's dark history -- an experience that almost destroys themThirteen years ago on a cold December night, a rock band called The Philosophers Stone gathered in the ancient...

  • The Wine of Angels

    A Reverend Merrily Watkins Mystery - 1

    A paradise parish of cobbled streets and timber-framed houses, a huge and haunted vicarage -- not what the Rev. Merrily Watkins ever had in mind. Nor had she wanted to walk into a local dispute over a play about a curious seventeenth-century cleric a...

  • Midwinter of the Spirit

    A Reverend Merrily Watkins Mystery - 2

    'Exorcism' is a word no longer favoured by the Church of England. 'Deliverance Ministry' sounds more caring, less sinister ... so why not a role for a woman? The Rev. Merrily Watkins, parish priest and single mother, can hardly turn it down, even whe...

  • The Cure of Souls

    A Reverend Merrily Watkins Mystery - 4

    Merrily Watkins faces multiple occult threats in her fourth outingIn Herefordshire's hop-growing country, where the river flows as dark as beer, a converted kiln is the scene of a savage murder. When the local vicar refuses to help its new owners cop...

  • A Crown of Lights

    A Reverend Merrily Watkins Mystery - 3

    Exorcist Reverend Merrily Watkins is challenged by a modern day witch hunt, in her third adventureWhen a redundant church is bought by a young pagan couple, the local fundamentalist minister reacts with fury. In an isolated community on the Welsh bor...

  • The Lamp of the Wicked

    A Reverend Merrily Watkins Mystery - 5

    In Merrily's fifth outing, a serial killer appears to be on the loose -- and Merrily has her doubts about the detective in charge of the caseAfter half a century of decay, the village of Underhowle looked to be on the brink of a new prosperity. Now, ...



  • The Prayer of the Night Shepherd

    A Reverend Merrily Watkins Mystery - 6

    A crumbling hotel on the border of England and Wales, a suggestion of inherited evil, a mystifying love affair ... and the long-disputed origins of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles. It's all endlessly fascinating for young Jane ...

  • The Smile of a Ghost

    A Reverend Merrily Watkins Mystery - 7

    Merrily is called to investigate a possible ghost sighting in her seventh fascinating adventureIn the affluent, historic town of Ludlow, a teenage boy dies in a fall from the castle ruins. Accident or suicide? No great mystery -- so why does the boy'...

  • The Remains of an Altar

    A Reverend Merrily Watkins Mystery - 8

    Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mum and Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford, heads for the Malvern Hills to investigate an alleged paranormal dimension to a spate of road accidents in the sleepy village of Wychehill. Merrily is c...

  • The Fabric of Sin

    A Reverend Merrily Watkins Mystery - 9

    The Master House, close to the Welsh border, is medieval and slowly falling into ruins. Now the house and its surrounding land have been sold to the Duchy of Cornwall. But the Duchy's plans to renovate the house and its outbuildings are frustrated wh...

  • To Dream of the Dead

    A Reverend Merrily Watkins Mystery - 10

    A rainy night in the cathedral city of Hereford. A grisly murder is linked by DI Francis Bliss with the campaign to preserve an ancient ritual site. And then Bliss is sidelined by his boss. What's going on?In the village of Ledwardine, Merrily Watkin...

  • The Bones of Avalon

    A country divided. A newly crowned, desperately vulnerable young queen. Can one man uncover the secret that will save her throne? It is 1560, and Elizabeth Tudor has been on the throne for a year. Dr. John Dee, at 32 already acclaimed throughout...

  • The Secrets of Pain

    A Reverend Merrily Watkins Mystery - 11

    Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mother, and exorcist, works for the Diocese of Hereford in a remote village on the border of England and Wales. Cozy? Not in the least.The elite warriors of the Hereford-based SAS know all about pain and the end...

  • The Chalice

    Glastonbury Tor is the legendary resting place of the Holy Grail, but something else also rests beneath the hillGlastonbury, legendary resting place of the Holy Grail, is a mysterious and haunting town. But when plump, dizzy Diane Ffitch returns home...

  • The Man in the Moss

    The discovery of an Iron Age body preserved in the peat bogs surrounding the village of Bridelow is one of the finds of the centuryThough dead for two millennia, he remains perfectly preserved in black peat. The Man in the Moss is one of the most fas...

  • The Heresy of Dr. Dee

    Tudor intrigue, murder, and the dark arts -- the second in a stunning and acclaimed historical series starring Dr. John Dee, perfect for fans of C. J. SansomAll talk is of the End-time, and the dead are rising. At the end of the sunless summer of 156...



  • The Magus of Hay

    A Reverend Merrily Watkins Mystery - 12

    When a man's body is discovered in the picturesque town of Hay-on-Wye, his death appears to be "unnatural" in every sense. Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mother, and exorcist, is drafted in to investigate, in this 12th installment...

  • Night After Night

    A spooky supernatural thriller by the author of the Merrily Watkins seriesLiam Defford doesn't believe in ghosts. As the head of a production company, however, he does believe in high-impact TV. On the lookout for his next idea, he hires journalist G...

  • The House of Susan Lulham

    A Reverend Merrily Watkins Mystery - 12.5

    An eerie novella for fans of the Merrily Watkins seriesThe angular, modernist house was an unexpected bargain for Zoe and Jonathan Mahonie -- newcomers to the city of Hereford and apparently unaware that the house's pristine, white interior walls had...

  • Friends of the Dusk

    A Reverend Merrily Watkins Mystery - 13

    A medieval legend spawns an unhealthy cult, and a terrifying 13th case for Merrily WatkinsWhen autumn storms blast Hereford, centuries-old human bones are found among the roots of a tree blown down on the city's Castle Green. But why have they been s...

  • All of a Winter's Night

    A Reverend Merrily Watkins Mystery - 14

    It begins in the fog, with a bleak village funeral. In the early hours of the following morning, Merrily Watkins and her daughter Jane are made aware that Aidan Lloyd, son of a wealthy farmer, will not be resting in peace. A rural tradition is displa...

  • For the Hell of It

    A Reverend Merrily Watkins Mystery - 15

    THE SIXTEENTH INSTALMENT IN THE MERRILY WATKINS SERIES 'Merrily Watkins is the most singular of crime fiction protagonists... As ever [Rickman]'s supremely skillful at teasing out the menace that lies behind English folk customs and legends and weavi...

  • The Fever of the World

    A Reverend Merrily Watkins Mystery - 16

    THE SIXTEENTH INSTALLMENT IN THE MERRILY WATKINS SERIES 'Merrily Watkins is the most singular of crime fiction protagonists... As ever [Rickman]'s supremely skillful at teasing out the menace that lies behind English folk customs and legends ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Phil Rickman has published 26 books.

Phil Rickman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Fever of the World, was published in July 2023.

The first book by Phil Rickman, Crybbe, was published in January 1993.

Yes. Phil Rickman has 1 series.
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