A Thing of Blood

Failed Shakespearean actor and would-be private detective William Power returns to Melbourne in this wry sequel that re-creates the tension and fear of wartime Australia.

But even Will’s contempt is tempered when in the early hours of the morning Darlene is kidnapped. Will finds his mother’s kitchen splattered with blood and scattered with broken crockery.

Soon murder and the fate of nation are added to the mix. Will realizes that he is the only one who can solve the case.

Bloodied and broken somehow unbowed. Arrives in a town struggling under war rationing and full of cocky American soldiers .Lands squarely in the bosom of his childhood home in Carlton, now dominated by his sister-in-law, the odious Darlene.