New PDF release: The Jericho Flower: A Hackshaw Mystery

"Returning for his fourth misadventure, small-town newspaperman and social gadfly Elias Hackshaw reveals himself immersed in a secret related to a useless con guy and a lacking gypsy princess with the inconceivable identify of Bimbo Wanka.

Through no fault of his own—well, virtually none—Hack turns into a suspect within the case while the police officers mistakenly finish that he was once an acquaintance of the murdered con artist. in the meantime, Bimbo's mom and dad ensue on Hack's doorstep hard he flip over their lacking daughter, or face a gypsy curse. so as to add to the mayhem, an area industrialist is badgering Hackshaw to supervise a tremendous maintenance to his monstrosity of a home, and Hack's sister Ruth is hectoring him to omit every thing else and notice to his tasks as editor of The Triton Advertiser.

Trapped via situation, Hack starts off poking into issues and shortly discovers a circus collection of off-beat characters: gypsies in cowboy hats, a con guy with a sense of right and wrong, a sheriff's investigator with no heart—or a brain—ham-fisted townies, and masses, even more. just a robust survival intuition, and his traditional component of dumb success, can keep Hackshaw this time around.

“Wilcox spins an interesting yarn of homicide and mayhem…With a reputable plot and whimsical characters that adroitly steer clear of being mere caricatures, Wilcox deals a semi-cozy mystery—uncloying, smart and much from brutal.”—Publishers Weekly

“Wilcox is a completely nice writer…The Jericho Flower is a well-crafted, resourceful story that this reader needed may possibly cross on much longer. it is a nice read…”—Midwest e-book Review

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