JERICHO’S DEAD
BY WILLIAM HUSSEY
Published: 29th February 2024
ZAFFRE BOOKS
Former CID detective Scott Jericho is done with murder. Done with puzzles. Done with the dark rage that seems to haunt him … 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.
As a startling truth is revealed and an old enemy re-emerges, a murder beyond imagining is about to become the media event of the century.
In Scott Jericho, William Hussey has created a unique, revelatory character who is quickly becoming a favourite among early reviewers, fellow authors and readers alike.
This second outing for the Traveller sleuth is shrouded in mystery, as unknown forces assail psychics and fortune tellers, the tale told in the author’s inimitable way. With plenty of shocks and bombshells, Jericho throws himself into the case, and I felt like I walked beside him, consuming each and every piece of the puzzle, desperately trying to work out what was happening.
Jericho is so emotionally flawed, but so genuinely likeable, and that has everything to do with the way he was conceived. William Hussey should be applauded, and his books added to every reader’s wishlist.
*I received an eARC from the publisher via NetGalley; this is my unbiased review. Thanks to Zaffre Books, William Hussey and NetGalley.
5 / 5
A revelatory character and an author whose work should be on every bookshelf!