Books like Secrets of Pain by Phil Rickman

An ageing butler’s reflective holiday reveals the quiet horrors of duty and the fragile nature of love within a grand English house in the 1950s.

A woman haunted by a violent past finds herself entangled with an enigmatic sailor, whose twisted affection forces her to confront her identity and the dangers that lurk on a storm‑ridden sea.

A detective in semiretirement finds herself assigned to lead the Literary Detectives, only to be replaced by a new chief librarian, leaving her to deal with the consequences of her past actions.

Set in a crumbling Georgian manor in rural Warwickshire, *The Little Stranger* follows a doctor arriving at a long‑standing family home where a death‑bed patient and chilling supernatural forces intertwine against the backdrop of post‑war Britain.

Alan Rickman shares a candid, witty memoir that reveals the actor's craft, politics, friendships, and everyday moments in a conversational tone.

A gripping mystery story following teenage girls grappling with personal tragedy and the pursuit of justice in a small English town.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

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When a flood threatens the serene Herefordshire village of Ledwardine, parish priest Merrily Watkins confronts rising waters, hidden tensions, and a buried Bronze Age mystery that links the community’s past to an ominous present.

When a body is discovered in a dark waterfall pool outside the town of Hay, exorcist Merrily Watkins is called to investigate. Her supernatural expertise uncovers a buried secret history of magic and ritual murder, leaving her fully unprotected.

A rural mystery thick with eccentric villagers, an unsettling grave, and a fatal costume‑party victim pulls a psycho‑analyst into a small English village to untangle a potentially double murder.

In a crumbling border hotel, a young woman uncovers a sinister mystery involving inherited evil, a love affair, and the origins of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ while her mother, a diocesan exorcist, faces a looming snowstorm and a deadly threat.

Ten years after a fatal studio session, the surviving members of the rock band The Philosopher's Stone reunite at the blood‑cursed Abbey to reclaim a stolen album and face the dark forces that haunt December 8.

Merrily Watkins, a parish priest and Deliverance Consultant, investigates a series of road accidents in the Malvern village of Wychehill, uncovering a clash between local traditions and a criminal nightclub owner while a performance of Elgar’s Caractacus brings sinister events to life.

Merely Watkins, a deliverance consultant, is sent to investigate a ruined Master House tied to the Duchy of Cornwall. When a violent death unfolds, she unearths hidden sin, medieval feuds, and modern Masonic ties in the haunted Welsh village of Garway.

Miss Maud Silver, a governess-turned-detective, untangles the murder of a powerful British man and the dark secrets of the Porlock family.

In the decaying village of Underhowle, Reverend Merrily Watkins teams with gravedigger Gomer Parry to uncover a serial killer, confronting her own doubts and a controversial funeral as she battles hidden tensions amid high-voltage power lines.

In Herefordshire’s hop‑farming heartland, a converted kiln becomes the crime scene of a brutal murder, and Diocesan Exorcist Merrily Watkins is dispatched to probe the tangled web of deception, corruption and supernatural suspicions that threaten the quiet village.

On the Welsh border, an exorcist diocese consultant is called to temper a witch‑hunt sparked by a pagan couple’s purchase of a redundant church.

In the historic border town of Ludlow, a series of uncanny deaths leads a retired detective and a single‑mother parish priest on a hunt for a truth that may lie beyond this life.

Exorcist Rev. Merrily Watkins investigates a body in the River Wye, a desecrated church and a dark ritual in Hereford, confronting an ancient evil tied to the Church of England.

In a rainy Hereford, a medieval legend unleashes a sinister cult and forces exorcist Merrily Watkins to confront centuries‑old human bones, a modernizing bishop, and a haunted estate on the Wales border.

When the new vicar arrives at the secluded village of Ledwardine, he discovers a town steeped in secrets, abuse, and supernatural whispers that threaten to upend his quiet existence.