Aline Templeton

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1996
  • Latest Book:
    May 2026
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Full Series List in Order

DI Kelso Strang

1 - Human Face (Mar-2018)
2 - Carrion Comfort (Dec-2018)
3 - Devil's Garden (Jun-2020)
4 - Old Sins (Nov-2021)
5 - Blind Eye (Feb-2023)
6 - Deadfall (Nov-2024)
7 - Truth to Tell (May-2026)

DI Marjory Fleming

1 - Cold In The Earth (Feb-2006)
2 - The Darkness and the Deep (Nov-2008)
3 - Lying Dead (Jan-2009)
4 - Lamb to the Slaughter (Jun-2008)
5 - Dead in the Water (Dec-2010)
6 - Cradle to Grave (Nov-2010)
7 - Evil for Evil (Dec-2012)
8 - Bad Blood (Oct-2013)
9 - Come to Dust (Feb-2014)
10 - The Third Sin (Apr-2015)

Books in Order: 22 titles

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  • Truth to Tell

    DI Kelso Strang - 7

    At this dead hour of the morning, the lorry park is deserted. It is a bitterly cold night, with rain falling and an edge of snow, and under the sickly yellow lighting the great lorries and tarpaulined trailers are dark and bulky as huddled beasts. Fo...

  • Deadfall

    DI Kelso Strang - 6

    Drumdalloch Woods near Inverness is a sinister place of tangled growth and shadowy darkness. It has business opportunists, biological scientists and conflicted family members all competing for a say in its future. Then a body is found, and everything...

  • Blind Eye

    DI Kelso Strang - 5

    The fifth in the DI Kelso Strang series from the author of the DI Marjory Fleming novelsDCI Kelso Strang is led to believe that something very odd is going on around the prosperous fishing port of Tarleton on Scotland's south-east coast.Firstly, a yo...

  • Old Sins

    DI Kelso Strang - 4

    'The crime czar of the Scottish small town!' Val McDermid On a clear moonlit night, DI Kelso Strang hears the spine-chilling howl of a wolf. It is not the only unsettling thing he discovers about the remote village of Inverbeg. Sean Reynolds, obse...

  • Devil's Garden

    DI Kelso Strang - 3

    When DCI Kelso Strang hears that an old friend from his police college days suspects there is corruption in her local station at Halliburgh in the Borders of Scotland, he sends her undercover so they can act before a major scandal erupts. What he doe...

  • Carrion Comfort

    DI Kelso Strang - 2

    In far northern Caithness a man has been drowned. But why was his body left in a ruined croft house as carrion for the merciless ravens? When DCI Kelso Strang arrives to investigate, he finds the village of Forsich still in the grip of a hatred going...

  • Human Face

    DI Kelso Strang - 1

    Beatrice Lacey is passionate about Human Face, the charity for Third World children she helped to found, and its co-founder Adam Carnegie. She has learned to turn a blind eye to some strange goings on, however; parties for donors who don't seem the p...

  • The Third Sin

    DI Marjory Fleming - 10

    Pleasure is the highest good: the Cyrenaics practised the principle until the death of one from an overdose and the apparent suicide of another. Sobered, the group went their several ways. One heads to Canada, another disappears and a third is believ...

  • Past Praying For

    The people of Stretton Noble are middle-class and complacent â€" or so thinks the Reverend Margaret Moon, who is disgusted by the materialistic lifestyle of her new parishioners. It’s only when her brother, Robert, a forensic psychologist, comes ...



  • Come to Dust

    DI Marjory Fleming - 9

    It can be hard beating your brain to dredge up something you've forgotten. But how would it be if you couldn't forget anything â€" ever? Except, of course, the one thing you desperately want to know: why, at the age of eleven, you had been found alon...

  • Bad Blood

    DI Marjory Fleming - 8

    Marnie Bruce has hyperthymesia; she can remember everything she has ever seen. Everything except from one fateful night when she was eleven; she woke up in an isolated cottage with a head injury and her mother gone.Twenty years later Marnie heads bac...

  • Evil for Evil

    DI Marjory Fleming - 7

    In a sea-cave on Lovatt Island, just off the west coast of Scotland, a skeleton is found shackled to the rocks. A victim of unparalleled brutality, the skeleton seems to belong firmly in the past, and DI Marjory Fleming anticipates a straightforward ...

  • Dead in the Water

    DI Marjory Fleming - 5

    This moody and arresting thriller is perfect for fans of Tana French.The young victim was pregnant, her body washed up on the rocks. Twenty years on, the murder remains unsolved; her father is now dead, and her mother refuses to talk about what went ...

  • Cradle to Grave

    DI Marjory Fleming - 6

    Who can you trust?Accused of murdering the baby in her care, seemingly cold and measured nanny Lisa Stewart maintains her innocence. But when she changes her name and tries to flee, terrifying threats continue to follow her. Is she an innocent victim...

  • Lying Dead

    DI Marjory Fleming - 3

    This moody and arresting thriller is perfect for fans of Tana French.On a beautiful, eerily quiet May morning, a girl is found brutally bludgeoned to death. When Detective Marjory Fleming arrives, the silence of the scene is broken only by the ringin...

  • The Darkness and the Deep

    DI Marjory Fleming - 2

    A chilling and suspenseful tale, perfect for fans of Susan Hill and Elizabeth George.A lifeboat crashes on the shore of a small fishing village, leaving all three of its passengers dead. A tragic accident -- perhaps -- but Detective Marjory Fleming i...

  • Lamb to the Slaughter

    DI Marjory Fleming - 4

    A sunny evening, a tranquil garden -- and an old man brutally gunned down on his doorstep.In a pretty and tranquil town, a proposed superstore development has divided the population in an increasingly bitter war. The low-level aggression of bored you...

  • Cold In The Earth

    DI Marjory Fleming - 1

    The first book in the critically acclaimed DI Marjory Fleming series. Death is in the air. Death is on the ground. Death is everywhere for the people of Galloway. As a catastrophic virus devastates the Scottish countryside, killing cattle and dest...

  • A Mixed Blessing

    in Scottish Girls About Town

    Meet the Clanswomen... International bestselling authors Jenny Colgan, Isla Dewar, and Muriel Gray lead off this dazzling collection of stories by popular and rising Scottish women authors. A sometimes wild, sometimes poignant romp through the liv...



  • Shades of Death

    Deep in a Derbyshire cave, the skeleton of an eleven-year-old girl has lain undisturbed for eighteen years. As DS Tom Ward, in charge of the investigation, uncovers the layers of deception that span all those years, he finds himself dangerously co...

  • Night and Silence

    When David marries Tessa he feels life is starting all over again. He gets a transfer to a small police station in mid Wales, leaving behind the stresses of inner-London policing, his previous marriage, and the son who doesn't want to see him anymore...

  • The Last Act of All

    Forbidding and remote, Radnesfield was a village whose inhabitants resented all outsiders. So when soap opera star Neville Fielding moved into the old Radley mansion with his beautiful, aloof wife, Helena, and their horse-mad fifteen-year-old daughte...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Aline Templeton has published 22 books.

The next book by Aline Templeton, Truth to Tell, will be published in May 2026.

The first book by Aline Templeton, The Last Act of All, was published in May 1996.

Yes. Aline Templeton has 2 series.
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