William Hussey, author of YA books Hideous Beauty and The Outrage (Usbourne), said: “With Scott Jericho, I wanted to create a character I had never seen before in crime fiction – a hardboiled detective from a Traveller background. I have some books that I have owned for YEARS and justhaven'tgotten around to so I want to try and cut some of them down thisyear. Author William Hussey imbues this novel with the heart of a showman, within a community who look out for their own.

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Equally, his queerness isn’t mere window dressing; the heart of this first instalment finds itself in the relationship between Jericho and Ben, a former love thrown back into life, a messiness that proves an interesting counterpoint to the scant few queer detectives out there (such as Ann Cleves’ troubled yet steadfast Matthew Venn). Which requires far more detail than an answer field allows, so what follows is a broad outline to ‘get you started’. God commanded Joshua to go around the walls of Jericho for six days, once every day, and seven times on the seventh day. For a FREE 'Jericho meets Jack the Ripper' short story - KILLING JACK - as well as news and other exclusive content, visit Will's homepage and sign up for the Jericho newsletter www. Even among former colleagues who dislike him, Jericho’s almost preternatural skill as an investigator is acknowledged, and William Hussey shows great originality in explaining how growing up among showmen shaped his observation and deductive reasoning skills, moulding him into an almost perfect detective.

The book is set in Delhi and begins when a rich man’s car jumps the curb and kills five people, but no rich man is to be seen, just a servant who is at pains to explain himself. God does not like to destroy the people whom He loves, but for the good of others, He sometimes has to.

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Scott Jericho is a troubled, ingenious sleuth who draws on the skills of his unique upbringing and heritage to solve a series of baffling murders. In the case of Canaan and all the surrounding nations, God allowed over 400 years to elapse before bringing destruction. More recently, Lorenzo Nigro from the Italian-Palestinian Expedition to Tell es-Sultan has argued that there was some sort of settlement at the site during the 14th and 13th centuries BCE. Q) 16 The seventh time around, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the army, “Shout!I don’t mind those who want to ‘hang on’ to their traditional humanistic doctrinal explanations, and also ignore the recent DSS findings, but readers both deserve, and should ‘see/consider’ all ‘views’. The story also gives Jericho space to re-connect with his former love Harry, and try and pick up what they had. God's design was that all would experience the horror of sin, and be able to choose His way of living over the other way of evil. The gothic, helter-skelter thriller debut introduces crime fiction’s first-ever Traveller detective, Scott Jericho.

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From the gothic undertones, to the fresh protagonist and ratcheting tension, Killing Jericho is a first-class thriller. I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. Since he left, he has been many things – a student, a policeman, a prison inmate – but now the only place that he feels welcome is the fairground. From the award-winning author of The Outrage comes Killing Jericho, the gothic, helter-skelter thriller debut that introduces crime fiction’s first ever Traveller detective, Scott Jericho.A revelation that will test not only Jericho’s intellect but challenge the very core of his morality. And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. There are silver sleuths aplenty in crime fiction these days, but this Chinese widow looks set to add a little something different to the mix in a book that oozes humour and originality. Biblical Hermeneutics Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for professors, theologians, and those interested in exegetical analysis of biblical texts. Scott Jericho is an ex-cop, traumatised by his last case and trying to survive in the traveler community who considers him a traitor.