A paradise parish of cobbled streets and timber-framed houses, and a huge, haunted vicarage were not what the Revd Merrily Watkins ever had in mind Nor had she wanted to walk into a local dispute over a play about a curious 17th century cleric accused of witchcraft a story that certain old-established families would rather remained in obscurity But this is Ledwardine, steeped in cider and secrets And also - as Merrily and her teenage daughter, Jane, discover - a village where horrific murder is a tradition spanning centuries