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'Brilliantly eerie' PETER JAMES'Engrossing and beautifully dark . . . a cracking good read' JO BRAND'A most original sleuth' THE TIMESWelcome to the River Wye: a place of poetry, historic obsession... and occult murder.Nestled deep in the Black Mountains, the village of Longtown is haunted by the double suicide of a lottery winner and his wife.A rich Londoner, unaware of the town's dark history, buys the dead man's cottage in the hopes of refurbishing it...then begins to fall victim to a host of bad luck.Luckily DS David Vaynor and Merrily Watkins - parish priest, single mum and renowned demon exorcist - are on the case.More praise for Phil Rickman'Cleverly illuminates the darkest corners of our imagination' John Connolly'The layers, the characters, the humour, the spookiness - perfect' Elly Griffiths'First rate crime with demons that go bump in the night' Daily Mail'No one writes better of the shadow-frontier between the supernatural and the real world' Bernard Cornwell