When Sam and Stevie Templeton moved from their busy suburban home on the outskirts of London to the quiet sleepy, chocolate box pretty village of Templeton in the heart of the Cotswolds, they were expecting, peace and quiet, tranquillity and calm. Instead what they got was murder and mayhem with a village in turmoil struggling to cope with the appallingly vile letters that were circulating amongst the villagers culminating in murder and attempted murder. At the behest of the worried residents of the village, Sam, a self-confessed murder mystery addict agreed to look into the letters as it appeared the police were doing very little to solve the case. As a result, the Templeton Detective Agency was set up as Sam, with his wife Stevie by his side, tried to unravel what was happening in the village, to find out the who was sending these letters, why they were being sent and whether they were connected to the murders and attempted murders that were occurring in and around the pretty English village.