MURDER WON'T STAY BURIED.

The brand-new 2025 thriller from award-winning crime writer William Hussey, author of Killing Jericho, the Genre-Busting Crime Novel of the Year award winner 2024 and Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year shortlisted breakout hit.

While Scott Jericho is tasked with investigating the most baffling case of his career, his partner Harry is set upon his own fateful path.

In a rundown seaside town, a young man has vanished without a trace. Jericho's investigation of this disappearance will unravel a diabolical plot and expose a secret long buried. A secret hinted at by the paper men hanging from the trees in a nearby wood, by the ravings of the local 'wise woman', and by the eerie waxworks of a defunct fairground attraction.

As fates collide and an impossible murder is executed, a twisted killer from the past is closing in on Harry and Jericho. But is it already too late for Jericho to save himself and the man he loves?

PRAISE FOR WILLIAM HUSSEY'S JERICHO THRILLERS:

'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

One hell of a ride * THE TIMES (on Killing Jericho) *
A brilliantly original investigator * T.M. Logan *
Dazzling * HEAT MAGAZINE (on Jericho's Dead) *

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.