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Dr Anya Crichton, a pathologist and forensic physician, finds that work is hard to come by for the only female freelancer in Northern Sydney. Between paying child support and a mortgage, she's subsidising a court battle " fighting her ex-husband for custody of their three-year-old son. Called in to investigate a teenage suicide, she picks up on similarities between the girl's death and several other recent cases. Patricia Cornwall's forensic fantasies may have cooled, but Fox's morgue-talk promises to plug the gap with a crime debut that nicely marries the personal life of the sleuth with that of the murder victim. Mother love rather than romantic love takes centre stage. EH