Aline Templeton Books in Order

Previously published as Devil's Garden, this case sends DCI Kelso Strang to a Borders town shaken by a writer's son's overdose, a near-fatal attack on his sister and whispers of police corruption, forcing him to challenge powerful people on their own ground.

Originally published as Carrion Comfort, this DI Kelso Strang mystery takes him to the bleak Flow Country of Caithness, where a drowned man, a ruined croft and a divided village hide long-festering grudges and a dangerous family secret.

Plans for Drumdalloch Woods in the Black Isle pit business developers, scientists and family stakeholders against one another in a tangle of clashing visions. After a body is found, DCI Kelso Strang's inquiry reveals corruption close to home and puts both his fragile new relationship and his life at risk.

In the prosperous fishing port of Tarleton, a young detective is shattered after seeing a doctor throw herself from a cliff and rumours of extortion poison the town. When a local farmer is murdered, DCI Kelso Strang uncovers a web of threats that will cost him dearly in both career and private life.

While visiting a friend in the remote township of Inverbeg, DCI Kelso Strang hears a wolf howl and stumbles into a bitter row over rewilding and land. An old woman's alleged accident and a new killing suggest someone is taking revenge for long-buried sins.

An old police-college friend asks DCI Kelso Strang to investigate suspected corruption in a Borders station, so he sends DC Livvy Murray undercover. When a famous author's son dies of an apparent overdose and her daughter is attacked, Strang uncovers secrets that reach deep into the town and his own force.

Still reeling from his wife's death, DI Kelso Strang is sent to the Isle of Skye to look into a missing housekeeper at a remote charity lodge. As he probes Human Face's polished image, he finds exploitation, lies and a case that could end in disaster.

In bleak Caithness, a drowned man's body is left in a ruined croft for ravens to pick over, and DCI Kelso Strang is sent north to investigate. A village feud, a fragile heiress and a dead patriarch's shadow tangle into a conspiracy that threatens more lives.

Years after a hard-partying student group shattered when one member overdosed and another vanished, a long-missing man's body is found in a car swept onto the Solway mud flats. DI Marjory Fleming must navigate obstructive colleagues and old loyalties to uncover how youthful indulgence turned into murder.

Marnie Bruce can remember every day of her life except the night she was found injured in an isolated cottage and her mother vanished. When she returns to Galloway seeking answers, DI Marjory Fleming reopens a painful cold case that still divides the village and hides a monstrous crime.

A skeleton chained in a sea cave off the Scottish coast looks like a relic of old smuggling feuds, until a modern watch on its wrist says otherwise. As vandalism and fires spread through the nearby village, DI Marjory Fleming races to connect past and present before hatred explodes again.

Accused of killing the baby in her care, outwardly calm nanny Lisa Stewart insists she is innocent, yet changes her name and tries to disappear when mobs turn on her. When threats follow her to rural Galloway, DI Marjory Fleming must decide whether Lisa is victim, murderer or something more complicated.

Twenty years after a pregnant teenager's body washed up on the rocks, the case that broke local police morale is reopened and handed to DI Marjory Fleming. As she digs into the original investigation, she uncovers shameful secrets about the victim, the town and her own family.

In the market town of Kirkluce, a proposed superstore has split the community, youth vandalism is turning vicious and a bloodied sheep's carcass is left in the street. When an elderly landowner and then a teenager are shot, DI Marjory Fleming must unpick the town's tangled loyalties to stop a sniper.

On a quiet May morning in the hamlet of Drumbreck, a young woman is found brutally bludgeoned, her ringing phone the only sound in the woods. When a second body appears, DI Marjory Fleming uncovers the jealousies simmering beneath a picture-postcard community of weekend homes and old resentments.

After a lifeboat mysteriously smashes on the rocks, killing all three crew, the small fishing port of Knockhaven is plunged into grief and anger. DI Marjory Fleming suspects sabotage tied to the new drug trade that has taken root in a town already gutted by the loss of its fishing industry.

During a devastating livestock disease outbreak in rural Galloway, pyres burn across the fields and tensions between farmers and police are raw. When human remains are discovered and a woman from New York arrives searching for her missing sister, DI Marjory Fleming finds that old obsessions and new grief are dangerously linked.

When the skeleton of an eleven-year-old girl missing for eighteen years is found in a Peak District cave, Detective Sergeant Tom Ward must piece together a vanished life from faded memories and secrets. Folklore, suicide and fresh deaths blur the line between past and present danger.

Hoping for a gentler life, policeman David Cordiner and his artist wife Tessa move from London to a remote Welsh valley, only to meet hostility from their new neighbours. When a young nurse is found dead in a staged, flower-strewn scene, David's murder case and Tessa's growing fear collide in their isolated cottage.

At Ramillies, a country house hosting the Hartington music festival, jealousies simmer beneath the sound of rehearsals. When founder Eden Hartington's obsessive daughter Anna is murdered, the investigation uncovers dangerous rivalries among musicians, organisers and the brilliant conductor whose career she tried to control.

Newly in charge of a Thames Valley parish, Reverend Margaret Moon knows her village feels tense but cannot say why until her forensic-psychologist brother comes to stay. As petty attacks escalate to poison letters and deadly arson, the pair realise someone is hiding a childhood trauma so severe it has split their personality.

Charismatic soap star Neville and his wife move to the quiet village of Radnesfield, but his affairs soon wreck the marriage and end in his brutal murder. Years later, when his ex-wife is released after confessing, a detective reopens the case and finds the original story never quite fitted the facts.

Templeton's debut crime novel centres on a suspicious death that turns ordinary neighbours into suspects and witnesses. As the investigation unfolds, everyday quarrels and buried grievances are shown in a new light, revealing how dangerous comfortable routines can become.