Boomerang Street

Set in Sydney in 1932 at the height of the Great Depression, this is a story I started making notes for in 2012 while I was still working full-time.

My family has a very strong connection to this period and I grew up with the stories of hardship, loss and grief. I started along the road to a full-length novel with Cross My Palm With Silver, the second story in my Anthology of connected short stories, The Boys of Bullaroo.

It was an interesting time, repercussions of the razor gang wars of the 1920s still flooding through Sydney’s underground and mob violence fuelled by the two Grand Dames of criminal gangs: Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh.

I hope to write a thrilling mystery murder based on true events and the lengths men were willing to go to in order to get food on the table for their families.