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Published: 11th June 2024
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Published: 2nd December 2025
Jericho's Dead: The stunningly twisty crime thriller from the award-winning author of KILLING JERICHO
By (Author) William Hussey
Bonnier Books Ltd
Zaffre
2nd December 2025
16th January 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
Thriller / suspense fiction
823.92
Paperback
336
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 23mm
238g
From the winner of the Genre-Busting Book of the Year 2024 comes the second fantastically original and twisty crime thriller.
A fortune teller predicts her own murder.
Will a detective see his coming
Former CID detective Scott Jericho is done with murder. Done with puzzles. Done with the dark rage that seems to haunt him.
That is until a vicious serial killer targets someone close to him.
Now Jericho is back, his thirst for justice remorseless.
But time is running out. Fortune tellers and psychics are being slaughtered and everything points to a link with a live TV event due to be broadcast on Halloween night. But what is the significance of the macabre wax effigies found at every crime scene Why is celebrity psychic Darrel Everwood convinced he will die in four days time And is Jericho's lover Harry really involved in the murders
As a startling truth is revealed and an old enemy re-emerges, a murder beyond imagining is about to be come the media event of the century...
William Hussey's debut, Killing Jericho, won the GENRE-BUSTING BOOK OF THE YEAR FINGERPRINT AWARD 2024, and is shortlisted for the THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024. Now, his brilliantly original detective returns in Jericho's Dead.
Praise for the Jericho Thriller series:
'A detective who breaks every mould' - JANICE HALLETT
'An absolute cracker' - T.M. LOGAN
'A first-class thriller' - CHRIS WHITAKER
'One hell of a ride' - THE TIMES
'Revelatory' - VAL MCDERMID
'A genuine triumph' - IAN MOORE
'What more could a reader ask for' - JOHN CONNOLLY
'A thrilling helter-skelter' - SARAH PINBOROUGH
'A fantastically gothic thriller' - SJ WATSON
'A blisteringly new brand of hero' - SARAH HILARY
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.