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Sophia Lane
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| Leigh Straw |
| ISBN 9781849212038 |
| Paperback 218 pages |
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| Published 5 June 2020
UK Price £12.95
US Price $19.95 |
Eastern Sydney in the 1920s.
Slumland streets controlled by crime bosses Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine.
Lyndsey Collier, an ambitious country girl, joins the Women’s Police.
As her work draws her into Sydney’s underworld, Lyndsey discovers a greater threat than the criminals she is investigating.
Betrayed by a corrupt police officer, Lyndsey escapes into the shadows of underworld Sydney to protect the man she loves.
A lifetime away and nearing death, Lyndsey reveals her story to Abigail Hollingsworth, a nurse at Kirkland Home for the Elderly.
Caught up in the tale, Abby must also confront her own troubled marriage.
Leigh Straw is the author of several fiction and non-fiction works.
She developed her love of history and storytelling growing up in Edinburgh and Kinross before emigrating to Australia.
She is the author of the DS Claire Patterson crime series (Kennedy & Boyd) and true crime books including 'Angel of Death: Dulcie Markham, Australia's most beautiful bad woman' (ABC Books, 2019),
'The Worst Woman in Sydney: The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh'.
Leigh Straw is Arts Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle.
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