Friends of the Dusk

Phil Rickman

2023年6月 · Merrily Watkins 第 14 冊 · Bolinda · 旁述：Emma Powell

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When 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 stolen? At the nearby Cathedral, another storm is building around a new, modernising bishop who believes that if the Church is to survive, it must phase out irrelevant archaic practices. Not good news for Merrily Watkins, consultant on the paranormal or, as it used to be known, diocesan exorcist. Especially as she's now presented with the job at its most medieval. In the moody countryside on the edge of Wales, a rambling 12th-century house is thought to be haunted. Although its new owners don't believe in ghosts, they do believe in spiritual darkness and the need for exorcism. But their approach to Merrily is oblique and guarded. No one can be told – least of all, the new bishop. Merrily's discovery of the house's links with the medieval legend of a man who resisted mortality, threatens to expose the hidden history of a more modern cult and its trail of insidious abuse – a trail that may not be closed.

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Phil Rickman (1950–2024) was a critically acclaimed crime writer, best known for his Merrily Watkins series, which has sold more than 350,000 to date and was adapted into the ITV series Midwinter of the Spirit. His books have been translated into a number of other languages including German. He was also the author of the #1 Kindle bestselling John Dee series and several novels of the paranormal, including two for children under the pen name Thom Madley. Born in Lancashire, he spent most of his adult life in Wales and the Welsh Border country, where he won a couple of awards for his work as a BBC radio presenter and TV news reporter.

Emma Powell is an experienced voiceover artist who has performed for some of the world's most renowned theater companies, including RSC, Almeida, and the National Theatre. She has voiced characters for BBC radio dramas as well as countless audiobooks, corporate projects, games and ads. In 2016 one of her audiobooks, Without a Trace by Lesley Pearce, was the most borrowed audiobook from British libraries, beating Harry Potter into second and third place. She voices the Phil Rickman thrillers, the fantasy Graceling Trilogy, and countless other novels.