Cold in the Earth by Aline Templeton Review!

Book Details

• File Size: 888 KB
• Print Length: 372 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0340838558
• Publisher: Witness Impulse (October 29, 2013)
• Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00CGZXQF8
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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 destroying lives, Detective Inspector Marjory Fleming finds herself at the stormy heart of a troubled, trapped community. Pyres are built, infected animals are burnt, and farmland is dug up as burial ground. But the all-pervasive stench of death develops a horrifying, unfamiliar edge when human remains are dug up near the small market town of Kirkluce. Thousands of miles away in New York City, a woman called Laura resolves to unearth the dark secrets of her past. Determined to discover the truth behind her older sister's disappearance fifteen years ago, her journey takes her back to Galloway, to a world of suspicion, fear and menace. A dead body, a missing girl, and a mysterious family's dangerous obsession with bull running provide a sinister backdrop to DI Fleming's first murder investigation. And as the cold shadow of death looms ever larger over this quiet corner of rural Britain, one thing becomes clear: it won't be her last.

About this author

Aline Templeton grew up in the East Neuk of Fife and was educated at St Leonards School, St Andrews and Cambridge University. She has worked in education and broadcasting and has written numerous stories and articles for national newspapers and magazines. Templeton was a bench Justice of the Peace for ten years and is a former Chair of the Society of Authors in Scotland, now living in Edinburgh. She is married with a grown up family.

She has written nine crime novels, published by Hodder & Stoughton in Britain, and has also been published in the United States and several European countries. After writing seven stand-alone books, she started a series set in Galloway and featuring DI Marjory Fleming, the first of which – Cold In The Earth – was an Ottakar's Crime Novel of the Month and an Independent Best Summer Read. The second, The Darkness and the Deep, was published in July 2006, and there are now six books in the DI Fleming series.

My Thoughts
This story takes place in a small town in Scotland. One of six books in the series of Detective Inspector Marjory Fleming. Along with being an Inspector, Marjory and her husband live and work a farm are among the farmers involved in the foot and mouth disease that is going around all the farms. This puts DI Fleming in a precarious position as she knows that if the animals have to be put down, it will devastate her husband.
In a different but equally important story is one of a woman, Laura, who decides to travel to Galloway to find out what happened to her sister. While there she becomes involved with two men who know what happened but are not talking. On her journey to find out the truth, her life is in danger. A body is found in a field that had been buried for some time and it is her sister so now it is a race to find out who killed her and why.
This is the first book that I have read in this series and it won't be the last. I loved the fast paced, at times creepy, story-line, written by an author who knows her stuff. Two women who want to see justice done and will do whatever it takes to achieve this. I always enjoy a good mystery and this one was no exception. I highly recommend this book!!

I received a copy of the book for review and was not monetarily compensated for my review.