Synopsis of Death at Booroomba Just before embarkation in 1915 Jack O’Rourke saves an old man Sam Lomond from drowning in Sydney Harbour.  Four years later Jack – traumatised by his wartime experiences – returns to Australia to find Sam Lomond has died and left Jack his rural property Booroomba near Eden.  Puzzled, Jack travels south to see the property and discovers that Lomond was brutally murdered. Met with hostility from the local townsfolk and suspicion from the local po

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