Cover the Bones

A body has washed up in an irrigation canal running through Yuwonderie, a man-made paradise on the edge of the Outback. Detectives Ivan Lucic and Nell Buchanan are called to investigate a vicious homicide: the victim, stabbed through the heart and electrocuted, was a member of one of the seven founding dynasties who have controlled the district's land and water for generations. Someone is targeting the landed aristocracy of this quiet desert paradise, and Ivan and Nell must work out who, and why, before the killer strikes again.