Prayer of the night shepherd, paperback/phil rickman

Latest novel in the Merrily Watkins series.

A crumbling hotel on the English-Welsh border.

A suggestion of inherited evil, a strange love affair and the disputed origins of The Hound Of The Baskervilles.

Fascinating stuff for young Jane Watkins, but the sinister side becomes increasingly apparent to her mother, Merrily, diocesan exorcist for Hereford.