Phillip Strang Books in Order

Steve Case confronts an international threat built around a dangerous virus. With fear spreading faster than facts, he must uncover who stands to profit from panic.

Also published as *Murder Without Reason*, this early DCI Isaac Cook mystery follows a murder that resists every simple explanation and tests Cook's refusal to settle for easy answers.

Steve Case faces the human cost of a conflict driven by political ambition and hidden agendas. The thriller follows a crisis that grows beyond anyone's control.

Steve Case is drawn into a high-risk hostage crisis shaped by ideology, international tension, and dangerous misinformation. Every decision carries consequences far beyond the immediate rescue.

A standalone thriller about revenge, buried motives, and the dangerous consequences of settling old scores. Phillip Strang builds tension around the cost of pursuing justice alone.

A soap actress vanishes, but she has disappeared before. With no body, motive, or obvious suspect, DCI Isaac Cook uncovers a secret powerful people will kill to protect.

An actor playing Caesar collapses during an amateur production, stabbed with a real blade. DI Tremayne must expose which member of the cast wanted the victim dead.

A lottery winner is found with his throat cut at Stonehenge. DI Tremayne follows a trail of greed and resentment among people who believed they deserved his fortune.

When a burned body suggests murder rather than spontaneous combustion, DI Keith Tremayne and Clare Yarwood enter a hostile village haunted by pagan ritual and deadly secrets.

Human remains are found hidden in the fireplace of an old London house. DCI Isaac Cook must break through decades of family silence before the last witnesses are gone.

A dismembered body floats in a Little Venice canal. DCI Isaac Cook expects gang violence, but the evidence reveals a calculated warning and a threat to his whole team.

A woman stalks London men, kills them methodically, and leaves a number on each body. DCI Isaac Cook identifies the killer, but stopping her proves far more difficult.

A man believed dead returns to London seeking revenge on those who ruined his life. DCI Isaac Cook must stop him while confronting uncomfortable questions about justice.

DCI Isaac Cook tackles a murder that appears to have no clear motive or easy explanation. The baffling case shows why he refuses to accept the first convenient answer.

A death on Salisbury Plain leads DI Tremayne into a village full of intrigue. As more victims fall, old sins reveal a connection nobody wants to admit.

A long-ago gold robbery returns to haunt everyone involved when new deaths begin. DI Tremayne follows the missing bullion while his own health becomes a concern.

Nobody mourns an unpleasant woman found hanging in her garage, until more people die. DI Tremayne learns the killer is enjoying the work, and the village is unraveling.

A difficult murder case tests DCI Isaac Cook's team when suspects, confessions, and evidence refuse to line up. In London, guilt and innocence are rarely as simple as they seem.

Two women are murdered within an hour, despite living in very different London worlds. DCI Isaac Cook must find the link before the city's social divisions conceal the truth.

Two compromised people are shot dead in a shabby hotel room. DCI Isaac Cook faces a media storm and political pressure as their scandal reaches far beyond Room 346.

A reclusive man is found murdered, and his family learns he hid a fortune. DCI Isaac Cook investigates relatives who ignored him in life but have plenty to gain from death.

An archaeological dig near Stonehenge uncovers remains far too recent to be ancient. DI Tremayne's investigation points toward Salisbury's most respected public official.

A body is discovered in Hyde Park, one of London's busiest public spaces. DCI Isaac Cook follows the victim's hidden connections into circles determined to keep their secrets safe.

Six years after Marcus Matthews vanishes, his body is found in an abandoned house. DCI Isaac Cook must uncover why a gangster's son-in-law shared wine with his killer.

A day at the races ends with a dead horse and the murder of its owner's daughter. DI Tremayne becomes an inconvenient alibi for a key suspect.

DCI Isaac Cook investigates a London killing driven by desire, obsession, and deception. Untangling the victims' relationships becomes the only way to identify who turned passion into murder.

A seemingly simple death draws DI Tremayne and Clare Yarwood into a web of deception, old debts, and rivalries. The evidence says one thing, but Tremayne trusts his instincts.

A famous mountaineer and television personality falls from grace, leaving DCI Isaac Cook to investigate the death and secrets behind a carefully managed public image.

A respected vicar walks into DCI Isaac Cook's station with a bloody knife and a murder confession. When he is killed in prison, the real mystery begins.

A homeless genius is murdered for revolutionary weapons technology. DI Tremayne and Clare Yarwood face intelligence agencies, foreign operatives, and corporations determined to keep them away.

A standalone thriller in which a nightmare becomes impossible to dismiss. Phillip Strang builds suspense around a character forced to confront danger, memory, and a growing threat.

Sergeant Natalie Campbell investigates crime in Sydney after dark, where crowded streets, private fears, and hidden motives turn a city case into a personal test.

A convicted murderer challenges his confession without saying why. DCI Isaac Cook reopens a case that may reveal police coercion and a truth nobody in authority wants exposed.

Sergeant Natalie Campbell investigates a crime on a Sydney island, where beauty, isolation, and old secrets create a tight circle of suspicious people.

A Sydney investigation linked to Pinchgut pulls Sergeant Natalie Campbell into harbour history, competing stories, and a crime that will not stay contained.

After a terrorist attack near Downing Street kills ten people, DCI Isaac Cook suspects the conspiracy reaches inside the police. Trust is scarce, and London faces darker days.

A ritualistic killing in suburban London points to pagan symbols and organised violence. DCI Isaac Cook enters a dangerous world where ancient belief has a modern purpose.

A mystery tied to ancient waters draws Odysseus Kalaris into a remote investigation where history, survival, and local conflict all shape the search for truth.

Bones found near a breakwater draw Jodi Brennan into an investigation shaped by tides, old loyalties, and the people who thought the sea had kept their secret.

A boundary dispute in the outback escalates into something deadly. Maya Thorne follows the breach from broken fences to old resentments and dangerous land politics.

Odysseus Kalaris investigates a crime during the harsh Australian burning season, when heat, fear, and old grievances leave a remote community on edge.

Odysseus Kalaris faces a case in dangerous country where false grief and real danger are hard to separate. Everyone has a reason to hide something.

Bones surface in the Australian outback, where Maya Thorne investigates a crime hidden for decades. Isolated communities and a hostile landscape make every answer hard won.

A remote Australian crime leaves echoes that refuse to fade. The investigation follows old events through dust, distance, and a community reluctant to speak.

Fire has destroyed evidence in the outback, but Maya Thorne suspects the blaze was no accident. She must uncover what someone was willing to burn away.

Outback radio is a lifeline until its frequencies carry something deadly. Maya Thorne investigates a crime exploiting the fragile connections that keep remote communities alive.

On the long straight roads of the outback, Maya Thorne pursues a case that pushes her to the limit. Distance becomes danger as the final clues emerge.

Maya Thorne investigates more deliberately buried remains in remote Australia. The dead have returned, and a community's carefully protected past begins to break apart.

When communication fails in the outback, Maya Thorne investigates in near isolation. Lost signals become both an obstacle and a clue in a dangerous missing-person case.

DI Tobias Stone follows puzzling tracks through remote Australian country, where the land conceals a crime and every disappearing clue increases the danger.

A dark mystery set amid hard mountain country, where evidence lies buried beneath old loyalties. Uncovering the truth means challenging people determined to protect their past.

Sergeant Natalie Campbell investigates what lies beneath Sydney's harbour surface. A seemingly straightforward case reveals deeper connections and a danger that reaches across the city.

Sun, wind, and red dust are erasing a crime scene. Maya Thorne races to preserve the evidence before the outback destroys the case for good.

A killing after last orders at an outback pub forces Maya Thorne to examine the place where alliances form, grudges surface, and everybody hears the news.

A case connected to the Manly ferry places Sergeant Natalie Campbell among commuters, tourists, and locals. Movement across the harbour becomes a vital part of the puzzle.

A murder disrupts the Henley-on-Todd celebrations, sending Sarah Reeves into a public event where witnesses, visitors, and locals all hold different pieces of the truth.

Sarah Reeves follows a case built on stories that do not match the evidence. In the outback, a carefully painted lie can protect a killer.

Jodi Brennan investigates a crime linked to contaminated ground on the Australian coast. Environmental damage and local secrecy make the case far more dangerous than expected.

Maya Thorne investigates lethal abuse of power in a remote community dependent on limited health care. Proving the crime is as difficult as surviving the isolation.

Sarah Reeves investigates a serious crime in Australia's Red Centre, where distance, heat, and old community tensions make justice difficult to achieve.

When the shoreline gives up evidence someone meant to hide, Jodi Brennan follows secrets through a coastal community where the past refuses to stay buried.

Sarah Reeves investigates a dark case in the shadow of Uluru, where a striking landscape and a close community make hidden motives harder to uncover.

A death at a shearing shed tears open old tensions in an outback community. The investigation must separate practical disputes from the motive for murder.

Maya Thorne investigates a killing a remote community claims was justified. Local ideas of justice collide with the law as she searches for the full story.

Maya Thorne investigates a remote community whose unsettled history has produced new violence. Land, ownership, and years of silence shape a case nobody wants reopened.

A silence in remote Australia hides the truth behind a serious crime. DI Tobias Stone must earn trust and read the country before the evidence disappears.

Maya Thorne enters an outback case built on silence, where nobody says enough and the vast landscape conceals violence, grief, and the clues she needs.

A murder in Australia's remote interior draws investigators toward the Devil's Marbles and a local secret with dangerous consequences for anyone who uncovers it.

Sarah Reeves faces a case involving manipulation, fear, and a killer who uses others as tools. The search for control becomes central to the investigation.

DI Tobias Stone investigates a crime in country shaped by water, isolation, and unreliable memories. The deeper he looks, the more dangerous the landscape becomes.

A grave and a long-hidden secret unsettle a close community. The investigation follows old connections and fresh danger as someone works to keep the past buried.

A secret tied to Haweswater brings old history into a present-day investigation. As the evidence grows, the people with most to lose become increasingly dangerous.

A killing near a lake draws an investigator into a community whose calm surface hides conflict. Every witness has a version of events, but not all can be true.

A crime near a vital outback waterhole turns survival into a motive. With heat, distance, and local conflict mounting, the search for truth becomes urgent.

An outback mystery links an opal country secret to a deadly past. In a remote community, greed and silence make every answer harder to reach.

A murder rooted in the pastoral industry brings Maya Thorne into a world of wool, inheritance, and feuds that have shaped an outback community for generations.

In the Australian outback, traces in red dust lead toward a crime someone believed the distance would hide. A relentless investigation exposes danger beneath the open country.

A dispute over inherited land turns deadly in the outback. Maya Thorne investigates what families will do to hold on to a property and its history.

A crime near Bondi's surf tests Sergeant Natalie Campbell as public spectacle and private violence collide. The rip is not the only force pulling people under.

Maya Thorne works at the edge of the law's reach in feral country, where isolation gives dangerous people room to make their own rules.

After a locust plague devastates an outback community, Maya Thorne finds destruction has exposed a secret someone was desperate to keep hidden.

A crime at an artesian bore puts Maya Thorne in a landscape where water is power. Controlling the supply may also mean controlling who survives.

A case near the Churchill Barriers forces DI Freya Tulloch to work through Orkney's wartime past, difficult waters, and a present-day motive for murder.

A funeral at Birsay brings old acquaintances together, then turns into the centre of a new mystery. DI Freya Tulloch follows grief, memory, and suspicion.

A crime connected to the Hoy ferry leaves DI Freya Tulloch with a tightly linked group of suspects. On an island route, travel and timing become crucial evidence.

A lighthouse keeper's record becomes central to an Orkney mystery. DI Freya Tulloch must decide what was observed, what was omitted, and who needs the truth hidden.

A letter connected to Midhowe opens a difficult case for DI Freya Tulloch. The message carries consequences for island families who hoped their old history was finished.

An investigation near the Ring of Brodgar brings DI Freya Tulloch into contact with Orkney's ancient landscape and a modern crime rooted in personal secrets.

An Orkney case involving stone, sea, and contradiction tests DI Freya Tulloch's understanding of the islands. The answer lies where local history and present danger meet.

An inheritance on Sanday creates a motive for conflict and murder. DI Freya Tulloch investigates family claims, island loyalties, and a legacy more dangerous than money.

A diver is found dead above the tideline on Hoy. DI Freya Tulloch traces his discovery in Scapa Flow to wartime documents and a dangerous local truth.

DI Freya Tulloch begins an Orkney investigation where the shore, island memory, and a suspicious death point toward a secret the community has guarded for years.

During Orkney's St Magnus Festival, DI Freya Tulloch investigates a crime that disrupts a close island community and exposes tension beneath its public celebration.

A contentious Stronsay vote becomes tangled with a crime that divides the island. DI Freya Tulloch must look past public arguments to find the private motive.