Castrato

About the Book

A murder mystery. This novel takes us into the rich farm country of the Midwest. The body of a young farm wife is found naked and with a gaping wound in her chest, on her kitchen floor. Joe Lynch, County Sheriff, seeks her killer. His investigation introduces the reader to Dulcy, a 60's hippie, to Happy Tucker, a religious recluse, to two would-be drug kings, to Stub Sorenson and his vivacious wife, Kitty, and to various men of the law, a whole community still awash in the residuals of the all encompassing faith of two now dead Catholic mothers.

About the Author

Estella Slattery was born the year of the World War I armistice and has lived in the same South Dakota county most of her life. She earned two degrees from the University of South Dakota, became an English teacher, and married a teacher and former football hero. She is the mother of six living children and the proud grandmother of thirteen. The roles of mother, grandmother, and life-long Roman Catholic have afforded her many interesting challenges and inspired her writing.