It can be hard beating your brain to dredge up something you've forgotten. But how would it be if you couldn't forget anything - ever? Except, of course, the one thing you desperately want to know: why, at the age of 11, you had been found alone in an isolated cottage, with a head injury and your mother gone? And why had the police investigation been so strangely low-key. 20 years later, Keira, a victim of hyperthymesia, is asking questions, hoping that the answers may break the loop that runs constantly in her mind of that last day before her life fell apart. And she's looking for a woman who might be able to tell her what she needs to know. DI Majory Fleming seems oddly reluctant. It's ironic that she should recommend forgetting about it, but as threatening shadows of the past begin to gather, Keira realises that it was sound advice. If there was any way she could take it.
'Loved it. She has become the crime czar of the Scottish small town!' Val McDermid
'Vivid characterisation, excellent description and a horribly looming sense of inevitability ... a riveting read' The Guardian
'Aline Templeton has demonstrated that, just when we thought Scotland was saturated with detectives, a strong woman can elbow her way in and find a unique niche' The Scotsman
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About Aline Templeton
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. Married with two grown-up children and three grandchildren, she now lives in a house with a view of Edinburgh Castle. When not writing she enjoys cooking, choral singing, and travelling the back roads of France. www.alinetempleton.co.uk
