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Phil Rickman: The Wine of Angels (A Merrily Watkins Mystery) (Paperback, 1999, Macmillan U.K.) 5 stars

A paradise parish of cobbled streets and timber-framed houses, and a huge, haunted vicarage were …

Review of 'The Wine of Angels (A Merrily Watkins Mystery)' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I found this book very hard to classify - mystery? Horror? Urban (rural?) fantasy? But at any rate this is a very satisfying mystery story with some supernatural elements that don't get in the way of trying to solve it as a reader, excellent, complex characters (one of whom gets killed off n a completely unexpected twist) in a brilliantly evoked, claustrophobic village setting.