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Libby Fischer Hellmann

When hedge fund owner Jay Montgomery raids his own fund, he disappears with millions belonging to his investors—including his wife Grace, his dead partner’s widow, and a vengeful Russian oligarch. Long-time frenemies, Grace and widow Dana want their money back and reluctantly team up to track him through the Ozarks, Switzerland, and Monaco.Their pursuit turns deadly when two people connected to Jay are killed. The women fear they may also have become targets after a series of fake ...

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The Ellie Foreman Mysteries

Jetzt auf Deutsch!Der erste Roman in der beliebten Ellie-Foreman-Krimireihe der Autorin Libby Fischer Hellmann, »Ein Auge für Mord«, stellt die Dokumentarfilmerin, alleinerziehende Mutter und Amateurdetektivin in einer Geschichte vor, die im Prag der Nazi-Ära beginnt und in einem nördlichen Vorort des heutigen Chicagos endet.Als ein älterer Fremder, Ben Sinclair, Ellies Kabelfernseh-Show »Celebrate Chicago« sieht und kurz darauf plötzlich stirbt, erhält Ell...

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The Georgia Davis PI Series

When pretty, smart Sara Long is found bludgeoned to death, it's easy to blame the man with the bat. But Georgia Davis -- former cop and newly-minted PI -- is hired to look into the incident at the behest of the accused's sister, and what she finds hints at a much different, much darker answer.It seems the privileged, preppy schoolgirls on Chicago's North Shore have learned just how much their innocence is worth to hot-under-the-collar businessmen. But while these girls can pay for ...

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Libby Fischer Hellmann

As World War II rages across Europe and the Pacific, its impact ripples through communities in the heartland of America. A farm girl is locked in a dangerous love triangle with two Germans soldiers held in an Illinois POW camp in the Chicago suburbs. The girl thinks she's in love, but the German POW may have other plans for their relationship. Originally written for War, Spies, and Bobby Sox, P.OW. Is now available as a standalone novella and, soon, an audiobook.

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After I wrote HAVANA LOST in 2012, I thought I was done with Cuba. I wasn't. A few years later, I wrote a story set just before the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 about two brothers who correspond by letter. One brother is a recent US immigrant, but the other is still in Cuba with their parents. They are on the verge of escaping to the US when the brother, a waiter at the Hotel Nacionale in Havana, serves some military officers and overhears suspicious talk about Soviet rockets in C...

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Libby Fischer Hellmann

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The Sagas Series

Someone is trying to kill Lila Hilliard. During the Christmas holidays, she returns from running errands to find her family home in flames, her father and brother trapped inside. Later, she is attacked by a mysterious man on a motorcycle.... and the threats don't end there.As Lila desperately tries to piece together who is after her and why, she uncovers information about her father's past in Chicago during the volatile days of the late 1960s... information he never shared with her...

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Diane Pirone Gelman

Young Lena Bentheim is forced to flee Nazi Germany for Chicago in 1935, leaving her family and boyfriend behind. After learning English, she eventually finds a new life as a secretary in the Physics Department of the University of Chicago. She meets and marries another German refugee scientist and has a child. Then tragedy strikes, and Lena is forced to spy on the nuclear fission experiments at the U of Chicago. A novella set in the early years of the Manhattan Project, The Incidental Spy ...

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Libby Fischer Hellmann

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The Ellie Foreman Mysteries

Chicago filmmaker Ellie Foreman tackles her most dangerous case yet in this dark thriller. An Image of Death sees Ellie in the midst of producing another video documentary, financed by a successful Chicago real estate developer.But things take an unexpected turn one winter night when a mysterious package arrives on Ellie’s doorstep. Inside is a surveillance video apparently showing the murder of a young woman. Who was the victim, why was she murdered, and what is her connection to ...

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Libby Fischer Hellmann

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The Sagas Series

A thriller set in Cuba in large part, which spans three generations of the same familyOn the eve of the Cuban Revolution, the stubborn Francesca Pacelli, 18 years old, he fled his ruthless father, a head of the Mafia in Havana, into the arms of her lover, a rebel fighting with Fidel Castro. His father, desperate to send it to safety in the United States, use torture and blackmail to search the island. So the first part of a fascinating saga spanning three generatio...

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Libby Fischer Hellmann

Young Lena Bentheim is forced to flee Nazi Germany for Chicago in 1935, leaving her family and boyfriend behind. After learning English, she eventually finds a new life as a secretary in the Physics Department of the University of Chicago. She meets and marries another German refugee scientist and has a child. Then tragedy strikes, and Lena is forced to spy on the nuclear fission experiments at the U of Chicago. A novella set in the early years of the Manhattan Project, The Incidental Spy ...

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Libby Fischer Hellmann

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The Ellie Foreman Mysteries

A masterful blend of politics, history and suspense,” -Publishers Weekly"Libby Fischer Hellmann has written a wonderful thriller. Jeremiah Healy author of the John Francis Cuddy mysteries ""Complicated, fascinating. Hellmann has a beautifully tuned ear," -Dick Adler, Chicago TribuneThe first novel in crime writer Libby Fischer Hellmann’s popular Ellie Foreman mystery series, An Eye for Murder, introduces the documen...

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NICE GIRL DOES NOIR

Curious how Ellie Foreman and Georgia Davis, the protagonists of my Libby's crime ficiton series, met? This short story explains. While her thriller, DOUBLEBACK,(October, 2009) features them both and Georgia made an appearance in AN IMAGE OF DEATH, they already had a passing acquaintance. How they met is explained in The Murder of Katie Boyle. The story takes place when Georgia was still a police officer. The story was published in a limited numbered edition and can also be found on audio ...