The Hollow: DCI Michael Holloway Mystery

The Hollow Truth is a brooding British crime thriller trilogy following retired DCI Michael Holloway—once a legendary detective, now an emotionally scarred private investigator. Haunted by the ghosts of the Black Chapel investigations and exiled from official policing, Holloway finds himself lured back into the shadows by a series of eerily personal cases that echo unresolved sins from his past.

From copycat killers resurrecting his first unsolved murder, to a rogue police archivist recreating decades-old crimes, and finally a mind-bending journey through implanted memories and Cold War secrets, Holloway's pursuit of justice takes him deeper into a conspiracy where memory itself becomes a battlefield.

With the reluctant support of his estranged daughter Eliza, a rising forensic psychologist, and DI Amir Qureshi, one of the few officers who still trusts him, Holloway must reckon with a terrifying possibility: that he was never just an investigator—but a long-monitored asset in a legacy of state-sponsored manipulation, spanning generations.

This is a story about truth—but not the kind you tell in court. It's the kind buried beneath institutions, locked behind sealed files, and erased from memory. The Hollow Truth is not about solving the case. It's about surviving it.