Gunnawah - RONNI SALT

It's 1974 in the Riverina.\n The weather is hot.\n But the body in the Murray River is stone cold.\n A captivating and compulsive crime thriller about guns,\n drugs and a young woman dead on the money.\n Riverina 1974:\n When nineteen-year-old farmgirl Adelaide Hoffman applies for a cadetship at the Gunnawah Gazette,\n she sees it as her ticket out of a life too small for her. Its owner, Valdene Bullark, sees something of the girl she once was in young Adelaide.\n Val puts Adelaide straight to work.\n 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,\n it's as if she's poked a stick in a bull ant's nest. Violence follows. Someone w