Thrill of it. Mandy Beaumont. 2025.

In March of 1989, Emmerson Kerr is alone.

One morning, listening to her Walkman, a newsreader's words stop her dead in her tracks.

*A warning to our listeners that this story is graphic in nature. The body of an

84-year-old woman has been found in the foyer of her apartment building on

Sydney's lower North Shore...

Emmerson stood, held in place like an anchor, like the breath of a frightened woman alone in her home. She listened to the details and remembered back to that day, twelve years before, standing in her grandmother's Paddington studio.

The 1977 murder of Marlowe Kerr - Sydney's art darling and socialite, a woman known for her lavish parties and her world-famous designs, but known to Emmerson • as her colourful, loving grandmother - had never been solved.

And now, years later, a terrifying string of crimes against older women will begin, forcing ageing female residents to lock themselves inside their homes. They will live in a state of constant fear. As the killer's reign of terror escalates, and Emmerson starts to unearth her beloved grandmother's shady past, she becomes increasingly convinced that the same person who killed Marlowe is also responsible for the depravity that is now unfolding in the city she has always called home.

Could Emmerson be the link to solving Marlowe's murder and help catch the killer before they kill again?