The Ring of Brodgar
(2026)(The sixth book in the Freya Tulloch Orkney Mystery series)
A novel by Phillip Strang
The Ring of Brodgar has stood on its Orkney isthmus for five thousand years. It has witnessed everything that has happened on these islands and recorded none of it. Stone does not take sides.
On the morning of the winter solstice, Dr Anna Voss is found sitting upright against one of the standing stones, facing east. She has been there all night. The frost around her is unbroken. Her footprints lead in from the road — and do not lead out.
She chose that stone, that position, that morning. Not for symbolism, but for precision. She was waiting for something to appear — something visible only from that exact place at that exact time of year.
She did not die of cold. She was already dead when the temperature fell.
Voss had made a discovery at the Ness of Brodgar excavation that rewrote the accepted chronology of the site — not by years, but by centuries. She told one person. That person had built a career on the chronology she had just undone.
DI Freya Tulloch arrives at the Ring as the solstice light comes in. Constable Billy Flett has been watching this site for two years. He knows which stones cast which shadows at which hour. His notebooks, which began as a record of seal behaviour, have become something else entirely.
The Ring of Brodgar is the sixth Freya Tulloch Orkney Mystery — patient, cold, and set against five thousand years of stone that was here long before the investigation and will remain long after.
Genre: Mystery
On the morning of the winter solstice, Dr Anna Voss is found sitting upright against one of the standing stones, facing east. She has been there all night. The frost around her is unbroken. Her footprints lead in from the road — and do not lead out.
She chose that stone, that position, that morning. Not for symbolism, but for precision. She was waiting for something to appear — something visible only from that exact place at that exact time of year.
She did not die of cold. She was already dead when the temperature fell.
Voss had made a discovery at the Ness of Brodgar excavation that rewrote the accepted chronology of the site — not by years, but by centuries. She told one person. That person had built a career on the chronology she had just undone.
DI Freya Tulloch arrives at the Ring as the solstice light comes in. Constable Billy Flett has been watching this site for two years. He knows which stones cast which shadows at which hour. His notebooks, which began as a record of seal behaviour, have become something else entirely.
The Ring of Brodgar is the sixth Freya Tulloch Orkney Mystery — patient, cold, and set against five thousand years of stone that was here long before the investigation and will remain long after.
Genre: Mystery
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