The Churchill Barriers
(2026)(The fourth book in the Freya Tulloch Orkney Mystery series)
A novel by Phillip Strang
The Churchill Barriers have stood across the eastern mouth of Scapa Flow for more than eighty years — four miles of wartime concrete poured by Italian prisoners of war to close the channel U‑47 slipped through to sink the Royal Oak. Storms have broken ships on them. Tides have hammered them. Nothing has moved them.
Until now.
During routine work on Barrier Three, engineers break into a hollow space that should not exist. Inside it is a body. The clothes belong to the 1980s. The workmanship sealing the cavity belongs to someone who understood the Barriers from the inside out.
DI Freya Tulloch knows what it means when Orkney keeps a secret this long. The Barrier was built in 1943. The cavity wasn’t. Someone used a national monument as a tomb, closed it with care, and trusted time and tide to keep their secret.
Time and tide have finally failed.
Genre: Mystery
Until now.
During routine work on Barrier Three, engineers break into a hollow space that should not exist. Inside it is a body. The clothes belong to the 1980s. The workmanship sealing the cavity belongs to someone who understood the Barriers from the inside out.
DI Freya Tulloch knows what it means when Orkney keeps a secret this long. The Barrier was built in 1943. The cavity wasn’t. Someone used a national monument as a tomb, closed it with care, and trusted time and tide to keep their secret.
Time and tide have finally failed.
Genre: Mystery
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