Phillip Strang

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books
  • First Book:
    September 2016
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • Hostage of Islam

    A terrorist organisation, a slave trader, a kidnapped woman, and time is running out!

    Kate McDonald's fate hangs in the balance. The Slave Trader has the money for her, so does her father and he wants her back. Can Steve Case's team resc...

  • The Haberman Virus

    A Genetically-Engineered Virus. The Ultimate Biological weapon. A World under Threat!Prophetic in its scope, frightening in its reality, fiction based on fact, this is not a book for the faint-hearted.A virus that will not stop until between seventy ...

  • Malika's Revenge

    Organized Crime. Drug Smuggling. Islamic Fundamentalism. A powerful mix for a complex, sometimes dark novel!Malika waits for someone to pay her price - a few scraps of heroin.The smugglers' village, close to the Afghan border, is cold and unwelcoming...

  • The Vane-Martin Conundrum

    The Prime Minister of Great Britain is to be assassinated â€" Frederick Vane and Andrew Martin are sure of it. Do they allow the assassination to continue? Do they tell DCI Isaac Cook? Do they inform Anne Argento? Can a policeman and a politician ...

  • Murder Is a Tricky Business

    There’s a secret, that much is certain, but who knows? The missing actress? The executive producer, his eavesdropping assistant? Or the actor who portrayed her fictional brother on the Soap Opera?

    DCI Isaac Cook of the Murder Investigati...

  • Death Unholy

    An abandoned church in a village set in time - the ideal setting for murder. Detective Inspector Tremayne and his sergeant, Clare Yarwood, are hard pushed to solve the crime and to stay alive.'Do you believe in spontaneous human combustion?' Detectiv...

  • Verrall's Nightmare

    Historians may reflect on what happened, psychoanalysts may debate endlessly, and although scientists would attempt to explain, none would conclusively get the measure of all that had occurred.Others, less knowledgeable, aficionados of social media, ...

  • Dark Streets

    Old Joe had lived on the street in Kings Cross for a long time. Those that knew him regarded him as harmless, although a nuisance cadging money from passers-by.Although someone regarded him as more, the reason he was found dead one morning on Darling...

  • Island Shadows

    A Heavy Metal Concert. An Island in the Harbour. The Lead Singer of One of the Bands is Murdered.Was the murderer the woman he had just made love to or a jealous paramour, or was the motive more obscure?It was an island prison in colonial days, then ...



  • The Body in the Ditch

    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 p...

  • Burial Mound

    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 another case for Detective Inspector Tremayne and Serg...

  • Death and the Assassin's Blade

    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 Tremayne is there with his sergeant, Clare Yarwood...

  • Death and the Lucky Man

    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 of blood had qualified on the lucky after winning sixty-eight million pounds on a lotter...

  • Death at Coombe Farm

    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 Salisbury Plain stretching out beyond. The only probl...

  • Death by a Dead Man's Hand

  • Death in the Village

    Nobody liked Gloria Wiggins, a woman who regarded anyone who did not acquiesce to her jaundiced view of the world with disdain. James Baxter, the previous vicar, had been one of those, and her scurrilous outburst in the church one Sunday had hastened...

  • The Horse's Mouth

    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 discovered.The question is, was Tremayne set up, in the ...

  • Murder has no Guilt

    A mass shooting. An amoral Romanian gangster. A Russian oligarch who claims to be an honest businessman, but isn't.No one knows who was the target or why, but there are eight dead. The men seem the most likely, or could have it been one of the two wo...

  • Murder House

    A corpse in the fireplace of an old house. It's been there for thirty years, but who is it?It's clearly murder, and what connection does the body have to the previous owners of the house?It was bound to be discovered eventually but was that what the ...



  • Murder in Hyde Park

    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 pieces unravel, it's clear that the dead man had a hist...

  • Murder in Little Venice

    A dismembered corpse floats in the canal in Little Venice, an upmarket tourist haven in London. The identity is unknown, but what is the significance?DCI Isaac Cook is baffled as to why it's there. Is it gang-related, or is it something more?Whatever...

  • Murder in Notting Hill

    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 woman has anything in common with the other.Isaac Cook ...

  • Murder in Room 346

    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, ' Larry Hill, Isaac Cook's detective inspector, said.'...

  • Murder is Only a Number

    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 have they?What is behind her hatred and why is she ke...

  • Murder is the only Option

    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.'Big Greg, I never expected to see you around here ...

  • Murder of a Silent Man

    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 shabbily-dressed man as he shuffled along, regular as clockwo...

  • Pinchgut

    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 and Inspector Haddock are resolute that it can. But ...

  • Six Years Too Late

    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 to much in life, apart from the fact that he was the...

  • Grave Passion

    Two young lovers out for a night of romance. A short cut through a cemetery. They witness a murder, but there has been no struggle, only a knife to the heart.It has all the hallmarks of an assassination, but who is the woman?And why was she alongside...



  • The Slaying of Joe Foster

    No one challenged Joe Foster in life, not if they valued theirs. And then, the gangster is slain, his criminal empire up for grabs.A power vacuum; the Foster family is fighting for control, the other gangs in the area aiming to poach the trade in ill...

  • Montfield's Madness

    • / Thriller
    • Buy Buy

    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.Eccentric was correct, a nuisance, for sure, mad, plenty...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Phillip Strang has published 31 books.

Phillip Strang does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Slaying of Joe Foster, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Phillip Strang, Hostage of Islam, was published in September 2016.

No. Phillip Strang does not write books in series.
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