To dream of the dead

Phil Rickman

Late December and the river is rising. The Herefordshire village of Ledwardine has not been flooded in living memory; prosperous incomers and weekenders, lured by dreams of woodsmoke and mulled wine, have been assured it will never happen. But in these days of climate change nothing is certain. Merrily Watkins, parish priest and diocesan exorcist, has learned that one of the incomers, living incognito in a barn conversion, is an author whose aggressive, evangelical atheism has made him a figure of hate for religious fundamentalists. The writer's wife is becoming conspicuously agitated is it the fear of discovery or the kind of fear that she, of all people, could never disclose? Meanwhile, another kind of religious conflict flares, as the Welsh border county digs up its pagan past. Only days before Christmas, police in the city of Hereford make a gruesome discovery, linked to the...

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