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STONEHENGE
A prehistoric murder mystery
Published 21st June 2025
to mark the Summer Solstice
ISBN 978-1-0369-1320-5 £11.99 Paperback, 460 pages
STONEHENGE: A prehistoric murder mystery
Set over 4,000 years ago, Stonehenge is a work of fiction – but all the murder victims were real people, whose bodies have been discovered this century.
This epic story weaves real-life archaeological finds into a complex web of danger, deceit and death, set against the wild and magical landscape of prehistoric Britain.
Despite every day being a struggle to survive, the most ambitious building project in the land is about to begin.
Tons of massive stones must be brought from a mountain hundreds of miles to the west and set up in a sacred site in the heart of the country.
The challenge is immense, and when the architect is brutally killed, the plan seems certain to die with him.
As more disasters strike the team collecting the stones,
it becomes clear someone wants to make sure that the circle is never built.
And unless their leader can unmask the murderer
and bring his group back safely, the saboteur seems destined to win…
About the author
Andrew Kemp is a writer and editor whose many credits include biography, social and military history, popular science, computing, motoring, and movie guides – including a definitive reference to the Star Wars universe. He has been fascinated by the origins of Stonehenge since a childhood trip when visitors could still walk up and touch the stones. This is his first novel.
About Stonehenge
Stonehenge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is perhaps the most famous ancient monument in the British Isles. It was built in several phases, dating from over 5,000 years ago when an earth circle dug. The original monument was marked with timber posts, but the first megaliths – the inner ring of bluestones that are the subject of this story – are believed to have been brought to the site between 2400 and 2200 BCE. The large sarsen stones that form the iconic ring of trilithons were erected in the centuries that followed.
About the archaeology
While the whole of Stonehenge is now in ruins, its stones remain aligned towards sunrise at the summer solstice and sunset at the winter solstice. There are many theories about how the structure formed an even more complex lunisolar calendar.
Located on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, Stonehenge is part of the densest complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial sites. Remains found there have helped to inspire the characters in the story, and more details of the discoveries can be found at the end of the book.