Female victim of murder on island (6)
I believe the answer is:
isabel
'female' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'victim of murder on island' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'victim' could be 'abel' (murder victim in the Bible) and 'abel' is present in the answer.
'island' could be 'is' (abbreviation) and 'is' is located in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for isabel that I've seen before include "Drab" , "- Allende, Chilean novelist" , "Abseil with confused girl" , "Miss" , "Girl's name" .)