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Synopsis:
There’s something sinister about Drumdalloch Woods in the Black Isle near Inverness. It is a 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 starts to look suspicious.
As DCI Kelso Strang’s investigation grows more complex, he unearths layers of hatred, greed and revenge that cast doubt even on the local police force. Having only just found happiness with his new girlfriend, Cat Fleming, Strang faces an existential threat not only to his career but to his very life.
Review:
This is book 6 of the series, and a twisty one to sink your teeth into. Giles Forsyth's Drumdalloch Woods seems amazing with it's mixture of old growth forest and invasive species that have been added. Giles allowed members of the Institute for Studies in Biological Sciences to use the forest as their private forest for studies. He worried about it's future, and wanted to leave it to his daughter in law, but she died in a freak accident. His son and grandson moved back to the big city and his daughter remained, guardian to the huge house and land, as his cook and servant. But then Giles dies, his son Perry looses his job and returns home looking for money and finds that others want to profit off the forest as well. When a murder occurs, Kelso doesn't just have one suspect-he has a covey of them. It will take all of his and DS Murray's sleuthing skills to figure out the many tangled webs of deceit in this book! A good page turner, it's a good entry into Templeton's writing and the series itself!
About the Author:
Aline Templeton grew up in the fishing village of Anstruther, in the East Neuk of Fife. She has worked in education and broadcasting and was a Justice of the Peace for ten years. She has been a Chair of the Society of Authors in Scotland and a director of the Crime Writers' Association. Married, with a son and a daughter and four grandchildren, she lived in Edinburgh for many years but now lives in Kent.
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