Bones of Contention: A Dinah Pelerin Mystery
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The top end of Australia is a land 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—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 while committing a felony when she was a child. But when she arrives, she discovers that the truth has darker ramifications than she'd bargained for. Meanwhile, her artist brother thinks he's possessed by the snake god; her family is seething with resentments; her uncle, who isn't really her uncle, is obsessed by a woman he married but could never possess; and a man none of them claim to know is murdered on a nearby island, impaled on the back of a sea turtle.
With her passion for mythology, Dinah tries to sort out the complicated song lines of her own ancestors while struggling to understand the Aboriginal Dreamtime and solve not one but two bizarre murders.
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Jeanne Matthews. (2010). Bones of Contention: A Dinah Pelerin Mystery. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Jeanne Matthews. 2010. Bones of Contention: A Dinah Pelerin Mystery. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Jeanne Matthews, Bones of Contention: A Dinah Pelerin Mystery. Blackstone Publishing, 2010.
MLA Citation (style guide)Jeanne Matthews. Bones of Contention: A Dinah Pelerin Mystery. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2010.
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Dinah sees this time with her uncle as a last chance to learn the truth about her father, who died while committing a felony when she was a child. But when she arrives, she discovers that the truth has darker ramifications than she'd bargained for. Meanwhile, her artist brother thinks he's possessed by the snake god; her family is seething with resentments; her uncle, who isn't really her uncle, is obsessed by a woman he married but could never possess; and a man none of them claim to know is murdered on a nearby island, impaled on the back of a sea turtle.
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A dying man’s pending changes to his last will and testament trigger murder in Matthews’s unconvincing debut. Seeking the truth about her father’s death, Dinah Pelerin flies from the U.S. to Australia when she learns that her mother’s cancer-ridden ex-husband, Cleon, is planning to settle family affairs before ending his life by assisted suicide. Attending Cleon are his first ex-wife; his current wife; resentful Aboriginals; an alcoholic doctor; and assorted progeny, including Dinah’s artist half-brother, Lucien. An Aussie cop investigates after a poisonous snake bites Lucien, the doctor dies under mysterious circumstances, and other shady matters come to light. The failure to properly utilize the huge cast; implausible, even idiotic, actions by Dinah; and the too numerous, clumsily introduced plot elements prevent the reader from summoning much sympathy for the heroine or the novel.
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