Disgraced and penniless after his assault on a violent suspect, former Detective Scott Jericho is forced to seek refuge with the fairground family he once rejected. Now, troubled by his failure, his brilliant mind stagnates. That is until a series of bizarre murders reawaken his interest. Men and women with no obvious link to each other are being murdered - in ways that recall a century-old legend of the Jericho Travelling Fair. As Jericho unpicks the threads of a baffling mystery, a helter-skelter hunt for a killer begins. But as the bodies pile up, a shocking truth awaits him. A revelation that will test not only