Jeanne Matthews. (2012). Bones of Contention: Dinah Pelerin Mysteries Series, Book 1. Sourcebooks.

Jeanne Matthews. 2012. Bones of Contention: Dinah Pelerin Mysteries Series, Book 1. Sourcebooks.

Jeanne Matthews, Bones of Contention: Dinah Pelerin Mysteries Series, Book 1. Sourcebooks, 2012.

Jeanne Matthews. Bones of Contention: Dinah Pelerin Mysteries Series, Book 1. Sourcebooks, 2012.

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   • bioText: Jeanne Matthews is the author of the Dinah Pelerin international mystery series including Bones of Contention, Bet Your Bones, and Bonereapers. Like her anthropologist sleuth, Matthews travels around the world learning about other cultures and mythologies, which she incorporates into her novels. www.jeannematthews.com
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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 during the commission of a felony when she was a child. But when she arrives, she discovers that the truth has more and darker ramifications than she'd bargained on. Her artist brother thinks he's possessed by the spirit of snake god who is moving his hand metaphysically across the canvas; her uncle, who isn't really her uncle, is obsessed by 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 understand Dreamtime and solve not one, but two bizarre murders. The Aboriginal concept of payback law takes on a terrible new meaning.

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     April 26, 2010
     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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     April 1, 2010
     Cui bono, mate?
     
     Dinah Pelerin's mother Swan was the favorite wife of that rapscallion Cleon Dobbs. Her preferred status disgruntled not only the helpmeet who preceded her but the one who followed her as well. So when the three wives, with all their viperous offspring, are summoned to a really uncomfortable lodge in Australia's Northern Territory, to hear how Cleon, now dying of cancer, has itemized his will, the mood quickly turns ugly, particularly when a journalist's skewered body turns up and Cleon's doctor, on hand to assist him in ending his pain-filled life, is poisoned. The survivors can't help wondering if someone's missed the real target—Cleon, of course, who's infuriated everyone by changing his will umpteen times and leaving his two Winslow Homer watercolors to Dinah. But there's something a little off about those watercolors. Could they have been forged? And now here comes yet another relative to make a claim on Cleon, a long-lost illegitimate son. Hmm. Maybe he's as fake as the artwork. Next come more family bickering, more will-changing and a final murderous twist to wrap things up.
     
     Matthews's debut provides a lively updating of that classic mystery setup, the reading of the will, rife with squabbling kinfolk, quirky Strine (Aussie slang) and a nice introduction to Dinah, who is between jobs and between lovers.

     (COPYRIGHT (2010) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

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     When her wealthy American uncle announces he's going to rewrite his will and commit suicide with the aid of a rogue physician, Dinah Pelerin joins her family in a run-down lodge in Queensland, Australia, where she soon discovers everything she believed about her family is false. VERDICT In this launch of a new international cozy series, Matthews places a refreshingly original female sleuth into a maelstrom of lies and deceit.

     Copyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     May 1, 2010
     Matthews debuts a new series starring energetic amateur sleuth Dinah Pelerin. Dinah has had a series of makeshift jobs, but her real passions are mythology and anthropology. She has just received a summons from her wealthy American uncle to witness his suicide. Dying of cancer, he has asked his entire family (several wives, assorted children, and niece Dinah) to come to a remote lodge in northern Australia. Before the suicide can take place, a murder occurs that may be tied to the bizarre death of a stranger on a nearby island, who was impaled on the back of a sea turtle. Digging into the case, Dinah discovers that the members of her family are not exactly who or what she had assumed they were all these years. On the positive side, she may be in line for an inheritance, and she has a unique opportunity to study Aboriginal Australian culture. Readers will enjoy the anthropology frame and the liberal doses of Strine (Australian slang) that appear throughout. Fans of Elizabeth Peters Vicky Bliss should try this engaging new series, which will take Dinah to various locales in search of anthropological adventure.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2010, American Library Association.)

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