The Wine of Angels - Phil Rickman

THE FIRST MERRILY WATKINS MYSTERY

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 accused of witchcraft… a story that certain old-established families would rather remained in obscurity.

But this is Ledwardine, steeped in cider and secrets. And also – as Merrily and her teenage daughter, Jane, discover – a village where horrific murder is a tradition spanning centuries.