Review: The Scent of Murder by Felicity Young

Synopsis: 'If a black dog appears along the old corpse way, the route a funeral procession takes to the churchyard, it is thought to be escorting the dead soul to the afterlife. A black dog sighting without a funeral procession, however, is supposed to foreshadow death.'

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.

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Tackling another of the social issues of the day, author Felicity Young takes us back to Edwardian England in this third instalment of the Dody McCleland series. Teaming up with Chief Inspector Matthew Pike and sister Florence, Dody is again, faced with another mystery and one that puts her own life very much at risk. Young gives the read more than one mystery to solve!