The Smile of a Ghost - Phil Rickman $.88 [Horror] (BOB) [US]

[NightBird]

Seventh in his Merrily Watkins series. EPUB at BOB.

'A smile so cold, so bleak, so devoid of hope... only this perpetual, bitter... terminality.'

In the affluent, historic town of Ludlow, a teenage boy dies in a fall from the castle ruins. Accident or suicide? No great mystery, so why does the boy's uncle, newly-retired detective sergeant Andy Mumford take his personal fears to diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins?

More people will die before Merrily, her own future uncertain, uncovers in those shadowed, medieval streets, a dangerous obsession with suicide, the nature of death and the afterlife.

http://www.booksonboard.com/index.ph...R=Phil+Rickman

Reported the price to Amazon so perhaps they will match it.

About the Merrily Watkins series:

The Wine of Angels introduces Merrily Watkins, the new—and female—parish priest for the town of Ledwardine, in Herefordshire, as well as her bright, sarcastic daughter Jane, their formidable neighbor Lucy Devenish, and the withdrawn musician Lol Robinson...In Midwinter of the Spirit Merrily becomes the official exorcist for the diocese of Hereford; although she continues to be the parish priest of Ledwardine, she finds herself spending a lot of time in Hereford, particularly at Hereford Cathedral, in the course of her new—and terrifying—duties.

The Merrily Watkins Novels - from Wikipedia

[Indio777]

Thanks. I have read a few if the Merrily Watkins titles. Not bad, although I prefer his other stuff.

Have also reported price to Amazon.

[NightBird]

YW and thanks, Indio.

I haven't read any of the Merrily ones yet. It appears that the first one is not available in ebook format for the US yet so I got the second one. Got Smile "free" at BOB with rebates.