The Detective and Dorothy Day
The Detective and Dorothy Day blends detective noir with historical fiction, set in eastern New York in 1975. The story follows Sy Johnson, a Manhattan private investigator hired by a labor union to probe the murder of an upstate chemical tycoon. The accused killer is a local union president, but the deeper Sy digs, the darker it gets.
His investigation leads him to the Catholic Worker farm in Tivoli, where he meets seventy-seven-year-old Dorothy Day, the renowned writer, pacifist, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement.
The murder case expands into a web of environmental pollution, labor unrest, political deal-making, high finance, and corruption. It is complicated further by Sy's sexual entanglements -- one of which he will grievously regret -- and close brushes with death.
From barrooms to a ballroom, from Brooklyn's backstreets to upstate waters and woodland, he finds himself confronting not just killers but his own conscience.
As Sy unravels connections between five murders, his unlikely bond with Day challenges him to seek justice and redemption in a new light. The Detective and Dorothy Day is both a gripping thriller and a meditation on morality in a world on the edge.
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