352 pages
English language
Published Feb. 1, 2025 by Hachette Australia.
Gunnawah
A Captivating and Compulsive Crime Thriller about Guns, Drugs and a Young Woman Dead on the Money
by Ronni Salt
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The debut crime novel by Ronni Salt It’s 1974 in the Riverina. The weather is hot – but 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 money.
When 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 takes to stop Adelaide and Val finding out how far the river …
The debut crime novel by Ronni Salt It’s 1974 in the Riverina. The weather is hot – but 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 money.
When 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 takes to stop Adelaide and Val finding out how far the river of corruption and crime runs.
Shady deals. Vested interests. A labyrinth of lies. It seems everyone in Gunnawah has a secret to keep. And too many are already dead quiet.
Set deep in the heart of rural Australia during the era of Gough Whitlam, pub brawls and flared jeans, Gunnawah is a compulsive crime thriller of corruption, guns and drugs from Australian Noir’s most arresting new voice.
‘This compelling rural crime story, embedded in the politically charged Australia of the 1970s, will intrigue fans of Margaret Hickey, Richard Osman and Lainie Anderson.’