Phillip Strang

A Bronze-Age burial mound close to Stonehenge, an archaeological excavation. The expectation: an ancient body, historical artefacts. They did not expect to find a recent burial there as well. It's...

The man was not meant to die; the daggers were only theatrical props, plastic and harmless. A summer's night, a production of Julius Caesar among the ruins of an Anglo-Saxon fort. Detective Inspector...

Sixty-eight million pounds and DEAD! Someone had once told Detective Inspector Keith Tremayne that some people were lucky and some weren't. Tremayne knew only one thing: the man lying dead in a pool...

If it hadn't been for the circumstances, Detective Inspector Keith Tremayne would have said the view was outstanding. Up high, overlooking the farmhouse in the valley below, the panoramic vista of...

Ethan Mitchell, old for his years after seventeen years in prison, knew the exact amount of time since his arrest for murder: eighteen years, five months and three days. After so long in prison, many...

Jacob Montfield, regarded by the majority as a homeless eccentric, a nuisance by a few, had pushed a supermarket trolley around the city for years. However, one person regards him as a liability...

An early-morning jogger is murdered in Hyde Park. It's the centre of London, but no one saw him enter the park, no one saw him die. He carries no identification, only a water-logged phone. As the...

A dismembered corpse floats in a canal in London. Isaac Cook is baffled as to why it's there. Is it gang-related, or is it something more?Whatever the reason, it's clearly a warning, and Isaac and...

One murderer, two bodies, two locations, and the murders have been committed within an hour of the other. There's a connection, but what is it? They're separated by a couple of miles, and neither...

A Downmarket Hotel. A Moral Campaigner. A woman who had killed her husband. Both Dead. Both Compromised. On the bed, the naked bodies of a man and a woman. 'Bullet in the head's not the way to go, '...

No one's talking, and those who say they know are dying. A television actress is missing, and DCI Isaac Cook, the Senior Officer of the Murder Investigation Team at Challis Street Police Station in...

Before she left she carved a number in blood on his chest. But why the number 2, if this was her first murder? A woman stalks London. She kills at will. Her targets are men who have wronged her, or...

He was thought to be dead, until he returns to exact revenge against those who had blighted his life. His only concern is to protect his wife and daughter. He will stop at nothing to achieve his aim...

No one gave much credence to the man when he was alive. In fact, most people never knew who he was, although those who had lived in the area for many years recognised the tired-looking and...

An Old Fort in Sydney Harbour - The body of a woman missing for seventeen years, interred behind a false wall at the fort. It's murder, but after so long, can it be solved? Sergeant Natalie Campbell...

Always the same questions for Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook - Why was Marcus Matthews in that room? And why did he share a bottle of wine with his killer? It wasn't as if the man had amounted...

A group of children play. Not far away, in the ditch on the other side of the farmyard, the body of a young woman. The nearby village hides as many secrets as the community at the farm, a disparate...

A day at the races for Detective Inspector Tremayne, idyllic at the outset, soon changes. A horse is dead, and then the owner's daughter is found murdered, and Tremayne's there when the body is...