AustLit

Mark Sinclair is called to a farming district in Victoria where a newly married farmer is believed murdered. his rich odler wife has foreclosed on the farm she held the mortgage to, but found too late that he had a de facto wife and child who had legal title. She beheaded her husband and strangled her rival's child - and is herself tortured to death slowly by the mother for revenge - Sinclair not discovering it until years later. Violent story. (PB)