Elias Hackshaw, the razor-tongued editor-in-chief for the weekly upstate New York rag, The Triton Advertiser, once again runs afoul of the law when he's mistakenly linked to a professional con artist whose dead body has just turned up in Kirkville. The con man was up to no good, and if Hackshaw knew the guy, the reasoning goes, he must be guilty of something himself; maybe even murder.

In his furious, flailing (and hilarious) attempts to prove his innocence, Hack merely digs himself a deeper hole, a hole that involves him with a beautiful gypsy princess and her wildly dysfunctional family, and a smorgasbord of crazy townies, disreputable and otherwise, who didn't have much use for the muck-stirring newspaperman even before the flim-flam hit the fan. It's up to Hackshaw to save himself, by proving that the con man wasn't the only one in town with fraud in mind.

"Wilcox spins an entertaining yarn of murder and mayhem…With a credible plot and eccentric characters that adroitly avoid being mere caricatures, Wilcox offers a semi-cozy mystery—uncloying, clever and far from brutal."—Publishers Weekly

"Wilcox is an absolutely first-rate writer…The Jericho Flower is a well-crafted, imaginative tale that this reader wished could go on for much longer. It's a great read…"—Midwest Book Review

"The Jericho Flower is a surprising, deep, amusing, and character driven mystery that will keep you on your toes…It's a mystery that keeps you hanging until the very end, an unlikely hero who will keep you laughing, and a full range of characters that opens you up to small town life…a most involved and amusing mystery from this very talented author."—All About Murder

Genre: Mystery