The Cat MacNeil Hebridean Mystery Series: Books 1-6
(2026)(A book in the DI Cat MacNeil Hebridean Mysteries series)
An omnibus of novels by Phillip Strang
Sent back to the Outer Hebrides, DI Cat MacNeil finds herself investigating murders rooted deep in family, memory, and the unforgiving landscape she grew up on.The remote islands were meant to be a quiet posting. Instead, they became the place where every case cuts close to the bone.
This complete six�����book series delivers atmospheric Scottish island crime fiction rooted in land, sea, and kinship:
���� COCKLE STRANDA man lies dead on the great tidal beach at Barra, a cockle rake laid neat beside his open hand. Cat’s first case back is among people who remember the girl she was — and don’t trust the woman she’s become.
📖 EMIGRANT SANDSA skull in the machair, a fracture the sea can’t explain, and a girl believed to have emigrated fifty years ago. Cat uncovers a lie the whole of South Uist agreed to tell.
📖 SLACK WATERA diver goes down at slack water on a salmon farm and does not come up. Beneath a quarter of a million fish lies a truth someone died trying to speak — and Cat’s own uncle is at the centre of it.
📖 FALSE TIDENobody drowns on a falling tide. Yet an old man is found face down in four inches of water. Tide tables prove it could not have happened. Cat uncovers nine years of quiet theft and a young bookkeeper who never went to Glasgow at all.
📖 SABBATH BREACHEachann MacCodrum never had an enemy — until someone killed him on his own doorstep. Four people opened their doors to him. Three heard the darkest truth about their people. The fourth was told there was nothing. MacCodrum was wrong, and it killed him.
�� THE LONG STRAIGHTA crofter hangs himself in his byre. A boy on a bicycle is killed on the long straight. The island has its answer — until Cat reads one line in a collision report that nobody was meant to read twice. A missing man, a waiting dog, and a verdict the island got wrong lead her to a kitchen table she has sat at twice before.
Perfect for readers who love:✓ Atmospheric Scottish settings �� Complex, grounded detectives ✓ Small‑island secrets and slow‑burn mysteries ✓ Character‑driven crime fiction ✓ Series that deepen with every book
If you enjoy Ann Cleeves, Peter May, or Denzil Meyrick, you’ll be drawn into the salt, the grief, and the stark beauty of the DI Cat MacNeil mysteries.
Binge the complete series today and follow Cat’s journey through the islands that made her — and the truths that refuse to stay buried.
Genre: Mystery
This complete six�����book series delivers atmospheric Scottish island crime fiction rooted in land, sea, and kinship:
���� COCKLE STRANDA man lies dead on the great tidal beach at Barra, a cockle rake laid neat beside his open hand. Cat’s first case back is among people who remember the girl she was — and don’t trust the woman she’s become.
📖 EMIGRANT SANDSA skull in the machair, a fracture the sea can’t explain, and a girl believed to have emigrated fifty years ago. Cat uncovers a lie the whole of South Uist agreed to tell.
📖 SLACK WATERA diver goes down at slack water on a salmon farm and does not come up. Beneath a quarter of a million fish lies a truth someone died trying to speak — and Cat’s own uncle is at the centre of it.
📖 FALSE TIDENobody drowns on a falling tide. Yet an old man is found face down in four inches of water. Tide tables prove it could not have happened. Cat uncovers nine years of quiet theft and a young bookkeeper who never went to Glasgow at all.
📖 SABBATH BREACHEachann MacCodrum never had an enemy — until someone killed him on his own doorstep. Four people opened their doors to him. Three heard the darkest truth about their people. The fourth was told there was nothing. MacCodrum was wrong, and it killed him.
�� THE LONG STRAIGHTA crofter hangs himself in his byre. A boy on a bicycle is killed on the long straight. The island has its answer — until Cat reads one line in a collision report that nobody was meant to read twice. A missing man, a waiting dog, and a verdict the island got wrong lead her to a kitchen table she has sat at twice before.
Perfect for readers who love:✓ Atmospheric Scottish settings �� Complex, grounded detectives ✓ Small‑island secrets and slow‑burn mysteries ✓ Character‑driven crime fiction ✓ Series that deepen with every book
If you enjoy Ann Cleeves, Peter May, or Denzil Meyrick, you’ll be drawn into the salt, the grief, and the stark beauty of the DI Cat MacNeil mysteries.
Binge the complete series today and follow Cat’s journey through the islands that made her — and the truths that refuse to stay buried.
Genre: Mystery
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