Phil Rickman: The Secrets of Pain (UK 2012) From the Publisher: THE SECRETS OF PAIN Meanwhile, the scattered communities along the Welsh border have their own crisis. With recession biting deep, urban crime has spilled into the countryside and old barbaric evils are revived. When a wealthy landowner is hacked to death in his own farmyard, the senior investigating officer, DI Frannie Bliss is caught in the backlash, his private life in danger of exposure. With the framework of her own world beginning to crack, Merrily is persuaded to venture into areas where neither a priest nor a woman is welcome... to unearth secrets linked with the border's pagan past. Secrets which she knows can never be disclosed. Phil Rickman: The Secrets of Pain. Corvus Books; ISBN: 9781848872752 (July, 2012), 578 p., £7.99, eBook £5.99.
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Phil Rickman: The Secrets of Pain (UK 2011) From the Publisher: Meanwhile, the scattered communities along the Welsh border have their own crisis. With recession biting deep, urban crime has spilled into the countryside and old barbaric evils are revived. When a wealthy landowner is hacked to death in his own farmyard, the senior investigating officer, DI Frannie Bliss is caught in the backlash, his private life in danger of exposure. With the framework of her own world beginning to crack, Merrily Watkins is persuaded to venture into areas where neither a priest nor a woman is welcome... to unearth secrets linked with the border's pagan past. Secrets which she knows can never be disclosed. Phil Rickman: The Secrets of Pain. Corvus Books; ISBN: 9781848872738 (September, 2011), 578 p., £16.99.
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