Witches, Bitches, And Good Ol' Boys

What is a man to do when he suspects that his dear, sweet wife has committed a heinous act of violence? That is the dilemma facing Bill O’Dell when Jam Legs Manny is found stuffed inside a gunny sack, doused down with raccoon scent, hanging from a tree limb just inches away from the jaws of a pack of hound dogs. Like past generations of O’Dells, Bill settles down and sows his seed in Hoot Owl Hollow, a strip of rock and dirt nestled among the beautiful hills and narrow valleys of Appalachia, and envisions a peaceful, laid back type of existence. He is wrong. In a town where everybody professes kin and nobody feels friendly toward the local sheriff, folks turn to Bill when things go wrong. He takes his role as leader of the kindred seriously and oftentimes finds himself smack dab in the middle of some harebrained scheme involving his cousins, Clem and Alonzo, or some devious plot hatched by his old maid sister, Sally, in her relentless pursuit of a traveling salesman. His own young’uns add to his plight, especially his daughter, Molly. When trouble is brewing, she stirs the pot. Nine times out of ten, she’s the one who gets things heated up in the first place. Even his wife Mary mutinies after a testicle spectacle when the town slut returns to the hollow looking to rekindle old flames from the ashes of yesterday. The authors are sisters with fond memories of growing up in a small Appalachian town much like Hoot Owl Hollow. The characters in Witches, Bitches, and Good Ole Boys are based on the peculiar but lovable inhabitants, whom they knew growing up and from tales passed down through the generations, about other in-laws, outlaws, and shirttail kin from their ancestral pool. Some of those tales may have become stretched a little over the years since the authors come from a long line of storytellers and never let the truth stand in the way of a good story!