The St Magnus Festival
(2026)(The third book in the Freya Tulloch Orkney Mystery series)
A novel by Phillip Strang
Heinrich Brandt has been coming to the St Magnus International Festival for twenty years. The German conductor knows Orkney better than most Orcadians — the archive, the landscape, the Cathedral’s nine centuries of stone. For two decades, he has been building a case, quietly and patiently, in the way of a man who understands that Orkney does not give up its history to anyone in a hurry.
On the morning after the opening‑night concert, Brandt is found dead in the choir stalls. His expression suggests a man who drifted off during rehearsal and simply never woke.
But what he uncovered in the Cathedral archive — evidence that a cache of Norse‑era liturgical manuscripts, missing since 1693, has been in the hands of the same Orcadian family for three centuries — did not die with him.
The St Magnus Festival is the third Freya Tulloch Orkney Mystery: understated, dark, and steeped in the weight of a small island community living alongside something very old that refuses to stay buried.
Genre: Mystery
On the morning after the opening‑night concert, Brandt is found dead in the choir stalls. His expression suggests a man who drifted off during rehearsal and simply never woke.
But what he uncovered in the Cathedral archive — evidence that a cache of Norse‑era liturgical manuscripts, missing since 1693, has been in the hands of the same Orcadian family for three centuries — did not die with him.
The St Magnus Festival is the third Freya Tulloch Orkney Mystery: understated, dark, and steeped in the weight of a small island community living alongside something very old that refuses to stay buried.
Genre: Mystery
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