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Not the best time to open a bookshop, but Robin and Betty are desperate, and only Betty worries about the oppressive atmosphere of the shop they're renting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMerrily Watkins, diocesan exorcist for nearby Hereford, knows little about Hay until a body is found in the dark pool below a waterfall on the outskirts of the town and the police ask her to assist. The dead man's peculiar interests will open a passage to the hidden heart of Hay and a secret history of magic and ritual murder. 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Oh God.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt Stanner Hall, a Victorian mansion-turned-hotel, Ben Foley hosts murder-mystery weekends and strives to prove that his hotel is the house on which Arthur Conan Doyle based his immortal Baskerville Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the days shorten and the weather worsens, Foley's dabbling uncovers more than he can handle. 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