The Freya Tulloch Orkney Mysteries: Books 1-6
(2026)(A book in the Freya Tulloch Orkney Mystery series)
An omnibus of novels by Phillip Strang
Detective Inspector Freya Tulloch has lived in Stromness all her life. She knows the families, the land disputes, the old grievances, and the things that are never said out loud. She also knows that on these islands, every death has a history, and most of the histories are older than the people involved.
The Freya Tulloch Orkney Mysteries are quiet, exact, and steeped in the weight of a small island community living alongside something very old that will not stay buried. From a woman walking out of the sea at Birsay to a body sitting upright against a five-thousand-year-old standing stone, the cases take Freya across Orkney's islands, into its archives, and back through a century of family histories that other people would rather she leave alone.
Six full-length novels. Over a quarter of a million words. The complete first arc of the series.
Book 1 — The Selkie's Shore. A diver is found on a Hoy beach in his working clothes, above the tide line. The tide didn't put him there.
Book 2 — The Scapa Diver. The diver found the truth. He was careful about it. He was not careful enough.
Book 3 — The St Magnus Festival. A cache of Norse-era liturgical manuscripts, missing since 1693, has been in the hands of the same Orcadian family for three centuries. One of them is finally ready to talk. The others are not.
Book 4 — The Churchill Barriers. A death on a causeway built by prisoners of war. The barriers have held back the sea for eighty years. They have not held back what was already on the islands.
Book 5 — The Hoy Ferry. A woman died on the early sailing, and Hoy is Billy Flett's place, his people, his history. For the first time in the investigation, Freya follows.
Book 6 — The Ring of Brodgar. On the morning of the winter solstice, Dr Anna Voss is found sitting upright against one of the standing stones, facing east. The frost around her is unbroken. Her footprints lead in from the road, and do not lead out.
Quiet, dark, and exact. Patient police work in a place where the cold and the stone outlast every case that comes to them.
Genre: Mystery
The Freya Tulloch Orkney Mysteries are quiet, exact, and steeped in the weight of a small island community living alongside something very old that will not stay buried. From a woman walking out of the sea at Birsay to a body sitting upright against a five-thousand-year-old standing stone, the cases take Freya across Orkney's islands, into its archives, and back through a century of family histories that other people would rather she leave alone.
Six full-length novels. Over a quarter of a million words. The complete first arc of the series.
Book 1 — The Selkie's Shore. A diver is found on a Hoy beach in his working clothes, above the tide line. The tide didn't put him there.
Book 2 — The Scapa Diver. The diver found the truth. He was careful about it. He was not careful enough.
Book 3 — The St Magnus Festival. A cache of Norse-era liturgical manuscripts, missing since 1693, has been in the hands of the same Orcadian family for three centuries. One of them is finally ready to talk. The others are not.
Book 4 — The Churchill Barriers. A death on a causeway built by prisoners of war. The barriers have held back the sea for eighty years. They have not held back what was already on the islands.
Book 5 — The Hoy Ferry. A woman died on the early sailing, and Hoy is Billy Flett's place, his people, his history. For the first time in the investigation, Freya follows.
Book 6 — The Ring of Brodgar. On the morning of the winter solstice, Dr Anna Voss is found sitting upright against one of the standing stones, facing east. The frost around her is unbroken. Her footprints lead in from the road, and do not lead out.
Quiet, dark, and exact. Patient police work in a place where the cold and the stone outlast every case that comes to them.
Genre: Mystery
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