Gunnawah : A captivating and compulsive crime thriller about guns, drugs and a young woman dead on the money

'A classic Aussie crime novel arrives, like a full-throttle ute through a fence.I gobbled it up like a Pine Lime Splice on a hot day.' KAZ COOKE'It's amazing to see what Ronni Salt can do when she's freed of a 280-character word limit.' SHAUN MICALLEF It's 1974 in the RiverinaThe weather is hotBut the body in the Murray River is stone cold . . . A captivating and compulsive crime thriller about guns, drugs and a young woman dead on the moneyWhen nineteen-year-old farmgirl Adelaide Hoffman applies for a cadetship at the Gunnawah Gazette, she sees it as her ticket out of a life too small for her.The paper's owner, Valdene Bullark, seeing something of the girl she once was in young Adelaide, puts her straight to work. What starts as a routine assignment covering an irrigation project soon puts Adelaide on the trail of a much bigger story.Water is money in farming communities, and when Adelaide starts asking questions, it's like she's poked a bull ant's nest.Someone will do whatever it tak