# The Remains of An Altar

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- Book: [The Remains of An Altar](https://www.bookquiver.com/phil-rickman/the-remains-of-an-altar) ([The Remains of An Altar.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/phil-rickman/the-remains-of-an-altar.md))
- Authors: [Phil Rickman](https://www.bookquiver.com/phil-rickman)
- Publisher: quercus
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-18-4724-488-8
- Published: 2007-10-08
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mum and Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford, heads for the Malvern Hills to investigate an alleged paranormal dimension to a spate of road accidents in the sleepy village of Wychehill. Merrily is called in when two people are killed in a head-on crash that is also linked to the revamped local pub which, it seems, has injected the valley with a shattering, strobing surge of inner-city nightlife... and drugs. When a dealer is found savagely murdered below the great earthen hillfort of Herefordshire Beacon, police ask: is it a ritual killing, a gangland disposal or a cry of outrage? As Merrily and the police follow separate paths towards the truth, Merrily's teenage daughter, Jane, faces the consequences of her own obsession with a possibly prehistoric site in their home village of Ledwardine. Until, on a night of frenzied violence, in a place at the centre of an ancient, universal mystery, the final, shocking connections are made. (P)2007 Quercus Editions Ltd