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Aline Templeton


Born
Fife, Scotland, The United Kingdom
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Genre
Mystery & Thrillers


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 – wa ...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 5,537 ratings · 471 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors
Cold in the Earth (DI Marjo...
3.83 avg rating — 949 ratings — published 2005 — 12 editions
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The Darkness & the Deep (DI...
4.02 avg rating — 593 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions
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Last Act of All
3.53 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions
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Lying Dead (DI Marjory Flem...
4.07 avg rating — 489 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions
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Lamb To The Slaughter (DI M...
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Dead In The Water (DI Marjo...
4.11 avg rating — 458 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions
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Evil for Evil (DI Marjory F...
3.99 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions
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Cradle to Grave (DI Marjory...
3.99 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions
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Bad Blood (DI Marjory Flemi...
4.05 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions
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The Third Sin (DI Marjory F...
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Series by Aline Templeton

Cold in the Earth The Darkness & the Deep Lying Dead Lamb To The Slaughter Dead In The Water Cradle to Grave Evil for Evil
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“If you were an animal, what kind would it be?"
"A dog. I'd take people in my teeth like rats and shake some sense into them.”
― Aline Templeton, Cold in the Earth
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“With her mother's remarks about his uncle in mind she looked at him with fresh interest and was forced to acknowledge that he too was actually a bit of a hunk. His hair was short, very dark and curly, and he had the sort of craggy face which might no longer be fashionable in the age of the New Man and the sarong but which would certainly appeal to any woman whose favourite fantasy involved caves and clubs and a bit of chest-pounding.”
― Aline Templeton, Cold in the Earth
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“Baby’s OK. It’s the wife and her mother. I don’t have the Gaelic and all they do is blether away. Sounds like breaking glass with their teeth.”
― Aline Templeton, Dead in the Water: A Marjory Fleming Thriller
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