GRANITE 
         A Novel
 
   The beautiful Hills of Mulmur in Dufferin County,
   Southern Ontario interspersed with scenes in Fergus,
   Hornings Mills, Creemore, Midland, Collingwood
   and Elmvale, provide the setting for Pat Mestern’s
   sixth work of fiction, tentatively titled 
  
       
        
   In June 1962, Lish MacPherson, leaves Toronto
   with several boxes of pirated files and a jar of earth
   which label contains place-names that seemed important
   to her father. Lish’s quest for information about her parents
   leads to Seven Springs and Thalia Logan Russo’s Hunter’s
   Mark where she feels compelled to assist the eccentric
   elderly woman to save her ancestral lands on the Niagara
   Escarpment from development.
 
   Lish is quickly introduced to the rural characters who inhabit
   the Springs and Valley -  Charlie Barnes, Noah Curlew, store 
   & café owner Georgie, Jeff the mechanic and Len his father,
   the Delaney brothers, Bud, Glenn and Reginald Russo. However
   tenuous his hold on Hunter’s Mark, land developer, Reginald is
   determined to get his hands on Thalia’s property. The plot
   involves murder - both ancient and possibly more recent,
   deception, deceit, blackmail, love of land, love of life  and the
   tenacity of people to fight for what they believe in.
       
       Author’s note:  In “Granite” I have captured the essence 
       and spirit of rural Ontario through the characters that 
       inhabited its farms, villages and towns during the
                          mid-twentieth century.