Australia's Son

(Available late October, early November 2019).

“Six deaths, if we include his, my father’s, and Fabrice’s, Andy,” I whispered. “All because of a simple, insignificant error of judgement—Fabrice Evans just gave the wrong address to a madman.”


A wrongly delivered letter sparks a chain of events that threaten the life of Edward Murray, “Australia’s Son”, the most renowned operatic baritone of his day.

It is 1902, and Edward has just returned to his hotel after a performance of La Bohème at the Theatre Royal in Sydney, when the manager of the Metropole phones his apartment to tell him the police have arrived with bad news.

Edward, and his vaudeville performer brother, Theodore, are shocked to hear that Edward’s dresser, the brothers’ oldest friend from childhood, has been found dead, stabbed in the back, in Edward’s recently vacated dressing room.

Following a sequence of gruesome killings, Edward and the detective assigned to protect him, Chief Constable Andrew Bolton, are lured into a trap by a man whose agenda is not only personal, but driven by a deranged mind.

The silver lining for Edward during these grisly events is the smell of tar and honey, and the promise of a special friendship with the man tasked with keeping him out of harm’s way.

Set around the theatre world of early Edwardian Sydney, the story is steeped in the world of class divides, of music and the theatre, and what it was to be a performer at the turn of the twentieth century. Its themes, of murder, treachery and foul play, are sometimes confronting, but the story is linked throughout by Edward Murray, the man with the golden voice, whose overarching belief is that even in the darkest of times, a sliver of light can mean that hope is at hand.

(Disponibil la sfarsitul lunii octombrie, inceputul lunii noiembrie 2019). „Sase decese, daca le includem pe ale lui, ale tatalui meu si ale lui Fabrice, Andy”, am soptit eu. „Totul din cauza unei erori de judecata simple, nesemnificative - Fabrice Evans tocmai i-a dat o adresare gresita unui nebun.” O scrisoare livrata in mod gresit starneste un lant de evenimente care ameninta viata lui Edward Murray, „Fiul Australiei”, cel mai renumit operist Baritonul zilei sale. Este 1902, iar Edward tocmai s-a intors la hotelul sau dupa o reprezentatie a filmului La Bohème la Teatrul Regal din Sydney, cand managerul Metropole isi telefoneaza apartamentul pentru a-i spune ca politia a sosit cu vesti proaste. Edward si fratele sau interpret de vodevil, Theodore, sunt socati cand au auzit ca sifonierul lui Edward, cel mai vechi prieten al fratilor din copilarie, a fost gasit mort, injunghiat in spate, in vestiarul recent eliberat al lui Edward. Edward si detectivul insarcinat sa-l protejeze, politistul sef Andrew Bolton, sunt atrasi intr-o capcana de un om a carui agenda nu este doar personala, ci este condusa de o minte tulburata. este mirosul de gudron si miere si promisiunea unei prietenii speciale cu barbatul insarcinat sa-l tina departe de rau. Situata in jurul lumii teatrale din Sydney Edwardian timpuriu, povestea este plina de lumea divizarilor de clasa, a muzicii si teatrul si ce a fost sa fii interpret la inceputul secolului al XX-lea.