Cold in the Earth

Aline Templeton has been producing quietly intelligent, carefully plotted thrillers for years. Templeton creates a tight, convincing band of characters and has the ability to spin her story beyond immediate events to paint a picture of a small rural community in crisis. She is good at managing her plot and revealing details slowly. She has demonstrated that, just when we thought Scotland was saturated with detectives, a strong woman can elbow her way in and find a unique niche. - Scotsman

Detective Inspector Marjory Fleming, a resolute Scot, is Aline Templeton's new detective for whom a series is planned. A long-hidden body is discovered in an area isolated during a foot-and-mouth epidemic.The remote rural Scottish background, a blizzard, a feuding farming family with secrets - all these combine to make this novel a compelling read. - Margaret Yorke

Aline Templeton anatomises a rural community, provides a contemporary gothic frisson and introduces a strong and sympathetic series character. The result is an unalloyed pleasure - an intelligent, character-driven crime novel. - Andrew Taylor

A compelling read - Margaret Yorke

An unalloyed pleasure - an intelligent, character-driven crime novel. - Andrew Taylor

Templeton has wit, a strong narrative sense and a dab hand with atmospherics - Literary Review on LAST ACT OF ALL

This astringent tale of psychological suspense set in a remote Welsh valley uses the landscape with an almost visionary splendour - The Times on NIGHT AND SILENCE

Templeton crafts a nifty plot amid the dour and inward-looking denizens of a Fenland village - Scotsman on LAST ACT OF ALL