Killing Jericho

The gothic, helter-skelter thriller debut that introduces crime fiction's first ever Traveller detective, Scott Jericho.

Scott Jericho thought he'd worked his last case. Fresh out of jail, the disgraced former detective is forced to seek refuge with the fairground family he once rejected.

Then a series of bizarre murders comes to light - deaths that echo a century-old fairground legend. The police can't connect the victims. But Jericho knows how the legend goes; that more murders are certain to follow.

As Jericho unpicks the deadly mystery, a terrifying question haunts him. As a direct descendant of one of the victims in the legend, is Jericho next on the killer's list?

Autorentext

William Hussey is the critically acclaimed author of over a dozen novels. Winner of the Genre Busting Book of the Year Fingerprint Award for Killing Jericho, he has also been shortlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, the CrimeFest Award, and the Polari Prize.

Born the son of a travelling showman, he has spent a lifetime absorbing the history, folklore and culture of fairground people, knowledge he has now put to work in his Scott Jericho thrillers. William lives in Dumfries with his partner Chris and their criminally adorable cat Harry.

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Disgraced and penniless after his assault on a violent suspect, former Detective Scott Jericho is forced to seek refuge with the fairground family he once rejected. Now, troubled by his failure, his brilliant mind stagnates.

That is until a series of bizarre murders reawaken his interest. Men and women with no obvious link to each other are being murdered - in ways that recall a century-old legend of the Jericho Travelling Fair.

As Jericho unpicks the threads of a baffling mystery, a helter-skelter hunt for a killer begins. But as the bodies pile up, a shocking truth awaits him. A revelation that will test not only Jericho's intellect but challenge the very core of his morality . . .