HUMAN FACE

Beatrice Lacey, fat and plain, has two passions – Human Face, the children's charity she finances, and its director, Adam Carnegie. She has learned to ignore the parties on the Isle of Skye for donors who don't seem the philanthropic type and the glamorous foreign ‘housekeepers' who come and go, in more than one case unexpectedly. When a savage and bloody murder follows the second disappearance, DI Strang, his face scarred in the car crash that killed his wife, struggles to deliver justice, not revenge. But with the merciless elements as agents, the brooding Black Cuillin seems to exert a dark force and he and his junior officer find themselves in a life-and-death struggle against that mighty enemy.

Aline Templeton lives in Edinburgh. She has worked in education and broadcasting and has written numerous articles and stories for newspapers and magazines. Her books have been published in translation in several European countries as well as the United States.