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Please note this book was previously published as Carrion Comfort.

The Flow Country in Caithness is a place of bleak beauty — endless peat bogs, sudden mists, and a silence broken only by the cry of the ravens. But beneath the surface, the ground is treacherous. And so are the people.

When a man’s body is discovered in an abandoned croft house on the edge of the Caithness moors, half-devoured by birds, it looks like a tragic death from natural causes.

But something doesn’t add up. The victim didn’t die there — he was moved. And the locals are quick to deflect questions.

Edinburgh-based detective Kelso Strang is sent north to investigate. What he finds is a tight-lipped community and a missing man who no one seems to have missed.

As Strang digs deeper, he uncovers a tangled web of long-buried secrets — and a second body. In a land where the past is never truly dead, Strang must tread carefully.

Because someone is watching. And they’re ready to kill again.

MEET THE DETECTIVE
DI Kelso Strang, once an army sniper and now a senior officer with the Edinburgh police force, is still reeling from the sudden death of his wife. It left him hollow, short-tempered, and increasingly difficult to reach. His job is the only thing that keeps him going. He now lives alone in a harbour cottage, where silence suits him better than small talk and black coffee keeps him steady. He reads old poetry, owns far too many maps and has a scar down one side of his face that people don’t ask about twice.

• Aline Templeton
• Published 1970 January 1st by Joffe Books (first published 2018 December 13th)
• ISBN: 1805732900
• ISBN13: 9781805732907
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