Author: phillipstrang
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 group of people looking for an alternative to their previous torturous lives. Their leader, idealistic and benevolent, espouses love and kindness, and somebody’s not following his dictate. The second … following his dictate. The second death, an old woman, seems unrelated to the first, but is it? Is it part of the tangled web that connects the farm to the village?…
A murdered brother. A missing treasure trove of stolen gold bars. A family dying in the hunt for it.A flawed heist of forty gold bars from a security van late at night. One of the perpetrators is killed by his brother as they argue over what they have stolen.Eighteen years later, the murderer, released after serving his sentence for his brother’s murder, waits in a church for a man purporting to … a church for a man purporting to be the brother he killed.The threads stretch back a long way, and now more people are dying in the search for…
After the cause of a recent death points to spontaneous human combustion, Detective Inspector Tremayne is drawn into a dark, dangerous world of ritual, superstition, and sacrifice in pursuit of answers. A unique murder mystery!