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When Aidan Lloyd's bleak funeral is followed by a nocturnal ritual in the fog, it becomes all too clear that Aidan, son of a wealthy farmer, will not be resting in peace. Aidan's hidden history has reignited an old feud, and a rural tradition begins to display its sinister side. It's already a fraught time for Merrily Watkins, her future threatened by a bishop committed to restricting her role as diocesan exorcist for Hereford.

Mysteröse Ereignisse. Nach dem Tod ihres Mannes zieht Merrily Watkins mit ihrer Tochter in den kleinen Ort Ledwardine im Westen Englands, um die dortige Pfarrstelle zu übernehmen. Die ländliche Idylle wird jedoch bald gestört: Bei einer nächtlichen Feier ereignet sich ein skurriler Todesfall und ein Skandalautor will in der Kirche ein Stück über den Tod eines Geistlichen aufführen, der vor Urzeiten als Hexer verfolgt wurde. Kurz darauf werden Merrily und ihre Tochter im Pfarrhaus von düsteren Visionen heimgesucht. Und dann verschwindet plötzlich ein Mädchen.

In Herefordshire's hop-growing country, a converted kiln is the scene of a savage murder. When the local vicar refuses to help its new owners cope with the aftermath, Merrily Watkins is sent in by the Bishop of Hereford to defuse the situation. Merrily, however, is already contending with a woman's claim that her daughter is possessed by evil. In both cases, Merrily remains unconvinced, but nothing is ever quite what it seems

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 Frannie Bliss, of Hereford CID, is convinced he knows where the bodies are buried, but Merrily Watkins wonders if Bliss isn't blinkered by personal ambition. Are the Underhowle deaths really linked to the legacy of Fred West and the most sickening cycle of killings in British criminal history?