A SCENT OF MURDER

For Doctor Dody McCleland, the unearthing of an ancient skeleton in a dry riverbed is a welcome break from the monotony of chaperoning her younger sister at a country house near the isolated hamlet of Piltdown.

But when she begins her analysis of the bones, Britain's first female autopsy surgeon discovers they are much more recent - and they are the result of murder. With Chief Inspector Matthew Pike's help Dody begins to investigate. Soon she finds herself pitted against ugly traditionalism, exploitation, spectral dogs, a ghostly hunt and a series of events that not only threaten her belief in scientific rationalism, but threaten her life itself.

Felicity Young was born in Germany, educated in the UK and settled in WA. She trained as a nurse, married young and, with three young children, her arts degree took ten years to complete. In 1990 the family moved from the city and established a sheep farm in Gidgegannup WA. Here she studied music, reared orphan kangaroos and started writing