The Spinster and the Madman

<p>Probationary Constable Gina Palumbo is looking forward to an impromptu trip to the Blue Mountains which was organized by her girlfriend; it’s a chance to unwind before reporting for her first day of duty.</p><p>Her plans are thrown into chaos after a strange and unsettling encounter with their friends’ next-door neighbor. The elderly lady introduces herself as Sylvia the only child of Daryl Jacob Thompson a notorious murderer who tortured and killed eight young women in the 1970s burying them in his orchard in country Victoria.</p><p>Gina soon finds herself enmeshed in the story of Sylvia’s horrific past until she begins to question the potential impact of such violence and terror on a person’s psyche.</p><p>As Sylvia’s tale races toward its deadly conclusion Gina must draw on all her internal resources to discover the truth before it is too late.</p>