Feerick’s Fine Shirts , a complex crime drama that blurs revenge, obsession, and sociopathy, begins when fourteen-year-old Siobhan Feerick emigrates from Ireland in 1847 to escape the potato famine. After arriving in Lower Manhattan’s perilous Five Points District, she works hard, founding the company that bears her name while creating a women’s version of primogeniture for her descendants. Under the tutelage of these women, Feerick survives to the present, surmounting adversities, financial crises, embezzlement and bankruptcy, and the COVID-19 pandemic. But what is happening in 2023 after Bennie Kaufman, the former chief financial officer of Feerick’s, is released from jail and murdered? Why? Was it revenge for his $11 million embezzlement nearly driving the company under, or was it payback for a sixteen-year-old sexual assault? More questions arise when other deaths follow rapidly. Kate Feerick Staunton, the current owner, is dead in bed, but is it murder or suicide? Then her daughter, Erin, the next to inherit, is killed on vacation in Ogunquit, Maine, in a mass shooting, but is it murder, or was Erin in the wrong place at the wrong time? Finally, could Kate’s younger sister, a successful ophthalmologist and surgeon, Brigid Collins, be behind everything? Follow the Canal Ville, New Jersey team: Elizabeth Williamson, rector of Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church; her husband, Church Gagne, a retired black-ops operations officer from the CIA; his partner, Ronnie Gruenberg, a former homicide detective of thirty years, who resembles a fifties film noir private eye complete with an occasional fedora; and Tom Johnson, Canal Ville’s chief of police. Important new characters assist the team: Azalea Jardinez, Feerick’s operations manager, and Sydney Riley, a self-described digital detective who left the CIA under mysterious circumstances. Recurrent characters round out the cast: Jon Anderson, the Morris County prosecutor; Genovese and DeCavalcante mobsters Don Tomasso and Capo Bastones Enzo Bellotti and Massimino Risso. Also, Judy, Elizabeth’s computer-savvy cousin; Amy, the church administrator; Wee Billy, Elizabeth and Church’s toddler; and their chocolate Lab, Jacques.