Dinner at Marshall Fields

A Cozy Thriller. Holly Day takes you on a lively and light-hearted journey as she decides to claim her future by losing her fear of the present. This is a socially relevant historical novel written in first person as Holly needs to remember more about her past in order to live her future, one where all she wants is to work at Marshall Field’s and live a quiet life. For once.

She moved back to Chicago in 1965 from New York City following a nervous breakdown after the death of her husband. When someone in White Shoes starts to follow her after the death of Bobby Kennedy she begins to piece her past back together, and realizes it wasn’t a nervous breakdown at all. She had been re-programmed.

Holly realizes that she needs a better grasp of who she once was, how she and Tom figured into the crime underground, and what that has to do with her feelings of guilt over RFK’s assassination.

Dinner at Marshall Field’s is a mystery thriller noir, which means the story is told from the viewpoint of a criminal. She needs to find out why she’s being followed, what they want, and how to keep from giving it to them.

This novel traces the evolution of a woman from the ‘40s through the ‘60s with a reflection of the changes in music, politics, and feminism along the way, reiterating that idea that our past is not necessarily truthful … or very far behind us.