Book description
'You're looking at his inspiration. These are ones he wishes he'd
done, the ones he wishes he'd got to first...' After half a century of
decay, the village of Underhowle looked to be on the brink of a new
prosperity. Now, instead, it seems destined for notoriety as the home
of a psychotic serial killer. DI Francis Bliss, of Hereford CID, is
convinced he knows where the bodies are buried. But Merrily Watkins,
called in to conduct a controversial funeral, wonders if Bliss isn't
blinkered by personal ambition. And are the Underhowle deaths really
linked to perhaps the most sickening killings in British criminal history?
Phil Rickman lives on the Welsh border where he writes and presents
the book programme Phil the Shelf on BBC Radio Wales. He is the hugely
popular author of The Bones of Avalon and the Merrily Watkins Mysteries.
