The Cold Calling eBook Phil Rickman
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When DI Bobby Maiden is revived in hospital after temporarily dying in a hit and run incident, his memories are of a cold, harsh place he never wants to revisit... memories that mean Maiden may be the only person who can reach The Green Man, a serial murderer the police don’t even known exists... a predator who returns to stone circles, burial mounds and ancient churches in the belief that he’s defending Britain’s sacred heritage.
Originally published under the pseudonym Will Kingdom, The Cold Calling has long been one of crime fiction’s best-kept secrets - finally available on .
Praise for The Cold Calling
'The clever plot combines crime thriller with the supernatural without ever diminishing either. A major discovery.' -- The Times
'Consistently impressive. Part Wicker Man, part trad-whomdunnit, part tough gangster thriller. A real find.' -- Crime Time.
The Cold Calling eBook Phil Rickman
First, I like the pun of the title. Next, there are some cool characters who I look forward to meeting again in Phil Rickman's other books - Cindy Mars-Lewis and Bobby Maiden and Andy (Sister Anderson) in particular. As always, the action in Phil Rickman's novels is on the borderline - spirituality, sexual identity, psychology, the supernatural: there are alternative, or if you prefer, holistic interpretations of the people, behaviour, and personalities - one of whom is the land itself... Or are there? I'm never sure I've quite figured out what's going on in Rickman's world, and that's just fine with me. And I get to know parts of the UK I've visited only briefly in reality - the Brecons, Oxford, Herefordshire, Avebury - but can be there in imagination from the other side of the world (Aotearoa New Zealand).Product details
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The Cold Calling eBook Phil Rickman Reviews
...but pretty gripping nonetheless. I always like the way Phil Rickman walks the fine line between he real and the paranormal, though that line isn't held as well in this books as some of his others. However, the characters are good (I particularly liked Cindy the shaman) and he has a great ear for dialogue and for characterisation through speech.
Will Kingdom / Phil Rickman one and the same and quite brilliant. The Cold Calling, one of Rickman's early supernatural mysteries never fails to disappoint me. Just the right blend of ancient magic and a modern day mystery, in the form of a serial killer known as The Green Man. Atmospheric and highly original, be prepared for an all nighter, once you crack the spine, or power up your !
Fans of Phil Rickman's "Merrily" novels have a love for Gomer Perry... in The Cold Calling and Mean Spirit, you can look forward to meeting the colorful Cindy Mars-Lewis, one of my all time favorite Rickman characters.
After becoming addicted to Phil Rickman's series about Merrily Watkins a few years ago, I decided to try his other novels, and have made my way through all of them. The Cold Calling, and its sequel, Mean Spirit, are some of his best work. As always, his central characters are fascinating, complex, and often lovable. In this book, Cindy, Grayle, Bobby, Marcus, Nurse Andy, and Malcolm the dog are a varied bunch who stole my heart. Rickman has placed these wonderful characters in a suspenseful plot, with excellent sense of history and place, and his usual blend of delicious supernatural shivers. I always enjoy pondering the ambiguity of evil is the main source of evil the realm of the supernatural, or the human mind and heart? Wonderful book!
I was thrilled to learn that Phil Rickman's two Bobby Maiden novels, originally published under the Will Kingdom pen name, were coming out on under Rickman's real name. And so I am devouring them once again, byte by byte. All the tantalizing things about Rickman novels- a plethora of great characters, the dark and disturbing legends of the Welsh borderlands, earth mysteries, ancient vs. modern, crime and criminals- they are here in abundance in a sort of distillation of all Rickman's themes and motifs. Policeman Bobby Maiden experiences a near-death experience that leads him to an ancient sacrificial mound where New Age types are recording subjects' dreams. Grayle, an American reporter, is trying to find her missing sister who was one of the dream subjects. A terrifying serial killer who thinks of himself as The Green Man is practicing ritual murder across the landscape. And an endearing modern day Celtic Shaman sees signs the police cannot. Everything builds to an electrifying ending. This book and its mate Mean Spirit are definitely reprint worthy and- dare we hope it?- sequel worthy. I'll check my pendulum....
Phil Rickman writing as Will Kingdom uses the same Welsh border background as he does in his Merrily Watkins mysteries, but his hero is a policeman rather than a parish priest. The supernatural elements in "The Cold Calling" are more `real' than they are in the Merrily Watkins novels, where the bogeymen are usually demystified at book's end (at least, most of them are.)
A serial killer who calls himself `The Green Man' is sacrificing victims at various British Stone Age sites, in an effort to purify the Earth. Police don't realize that the murders are being committed by the same man because a different weapon is used each time. When a self-styled shaman (who is also a cross-dressing ventriloquist) tries to clue them in, they toss him out on his ear.
In a second story line, a hit-and-run accident victim is brought back to life by an ER nurse, after flat-lining for four minutes. The revived victim is a police detective who has been investigating links between his chief and the local drug lord. By all rights, he should be brain-damaged, but he isn't--at least not in the usual sense of the term.
The third story line involves the feud between a TV archeologist, who investigates Stone Age sites for his show, and a retired teacher, who believes that the megalith near his village has sacred healing power.
Even though there are many characters and subplots to remember, the author defines each one so vividly, I had no trouble keeping track of what was happening. The only character who didn't really come alive for me was a spacey New Age journalist from New York, who travels to the Welsh borderlands in search for her missing anthropologist-sister.
As with all of Phil Rickman's supernatural mystery novels, I couldn't tear myself away from "The Cold Calling" until I had read straight through its 494 pages to the chilling climax.
First, I like the pun of the title. Next, there are some cool characters who I look forward to meeting again in Phil Rickman's other books - Cindy Mars-Lewis and Bobby Maiden and Andy (Sister Anderson) in particular. As always, the action in Phil Rickman's novels is on the borderline - spirituality, sexual identity, psychology, the supernatural there are alternative, or if you prefer, holistic interpretations of the people, behaviour, and personalities - one of whom is the land itself... Or are there? I'm never sure I've quite figured out what's going on in Rickman's world, and that's just fine with me. And I get to know parts of the UK I've visited only briefly in reality - the Brecons, Oxford, Herefordshire, Avebury - but can be there in imagination from the other side of the world (Aotearoa New Zealand).
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