Bones of contention
By: Jeanne Matthews
Series: A Dinah Pelerin mystery; Worldwide Mystery; Worldwide mystery
Publisher: Worldwide
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780373268894
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Women anthropologists; Fiction; Murder; Detective and mystery stories; Families; Family secrets
Description: The Top End of Australia is teeming with crocodiles, poisonous snakes, and curious Aboriginal myths. It's a strange place to choose to end one's life, but that is what Dinah Pelerin's wealthy American uncle has done. Dying of cancer, he has summoned his entire family, current wife, ex-wife, assorted children and niece's to a remote, comfortless lodge where he intends to rewrite his will and commit suicide with the aid of a rogue Australian physician with whom he shares a mysterious history. Dinah sees this time with her uncle as a last chance to learn the truth about her father, who died during the commission of a felony when she was a child. But when she arrives, she discovers that the truth has darker ramifications. Her artist brother thinks he's possessed by the spirit of a snake god; her uncle is obsessed with a woman he married but could never possess; the rest of the family is seething with resentments; and a man none of them claims to know is murdered on a nearby island, impaled on the back of a sea turtle. A wannabe anthropologist with a passion for mythology, Dinah tries to sort out the complicated song lines of her own ancestors while struggling to solve not one, but two, bizarre murders.
Notes: "First published by Poisoned Pen Press." -- Title page verso.