Death at Booroomba: Small town, big secrets.

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Two days before Jack O'Rourke's embarkment to the Western Front in 1916, he leaps into Sydney Harbour to save an elderly Russian man, named Samuel Lomond, from drowning. What happens when Jack returns frot he front and discover Lomond's brutal murder, is at the heart of this thrilling historical fiction saga. Suspcious of Constable Flood, the man leading the murder-nvestigation, Jack takes matters into his own hands. Assisted by the local doctor and his wife, Jack complies a list of townsfolk who might have killed Lomond, only to uncover a twisted web of deceit and corruption, and the involment of Russia's secret police in Lomond's murder.

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A.L.Booth is a highly accomplished author with seven novels, threeof which were published by Penguin Random House, including her debut novel Stillwater Creek. She has contributed short-stories to international collections including Antipodes and New Writing. She is ANU Professor Emeritus of Economics, has a PhD from the LSE and spent over two decades living and working in the UK before returning to her native Australia.