JEANNE MATTHEWS, BONES OF CONTENTION

When her dying uncle, ready to commit suicide, summons his entire family to Australia, American Dinah Pelerin sees this time 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 than she'd bargained for.  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. 

Originally from Georgia, Jeanne Matthews lives in the Northwest.  Bones is the first of a new cozy mystery series.