Following on the heels of several excellent standalone novels, (this is) a dark, well-told tale. Hellmann is an expert at tearing into the fabric of villainy that lies in ... our cities." Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine"Thrilling... Hellmann ratchets up the suspense with every chapter, and the reader is constantly kept wondering about the fate of both sisters." Publishers Weekly"Conflict so real it grips the reader. You dare not b...

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 ...

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 ...

On the eve of the Cuban Revolution, headstrong 18-year-old Francesca Pacelli flees from her ruthless Mafia-boss father in Havana to the arms of her lover, a rebel fighting with Fidel Castro. Her father, desperate to send her to safety in the US, resorts to torture and blackmail as he searches the island for her.So begins the first part of a spellbinding saga that spans three generations of the same family. Decades later, the family is lured back to Cuba by the promise of untold ric...

Libby Fischer Hellmann’s thriller TOXICITY is as gritty as it is spellbinding. Populated with fully-realized characters, TOXICITY introduces us to Hellmann’s signature heroine, Georgia Davis. But we meet Georgia ten years earlier, when she is a young and determined rookie on a Chicago police force. In Georgia’s debut, we see her tenacity and strength, but also her vulnerability: the seeds sown for the woman she will become. TOXICITY works on all levels, drawing the reader inexorably into a...

A sweeping World War 2 saga in which a young German Jew flees Europe, emigrates to America, and joins the Army to fight NazisAs the Nazis conquer Europe, Jewish teen Max and his parents flee persecution in Germany for Holland, where Max finds true friends and a life-altering romance. But when Hitler invades in 1940, Max must escape to Chicago, leaving his parents and friends behind. When he learns of his parents' deportation and murder, Max immediately enlists in t...

Winner, Fiction Book of the Year, 2020-21, Chicago Writers AssociationIS THERE A WARNING BEFORE THE MOMENT LIFE SHATTERS INTO PIECES?In 1968 two young Vietnamese sisters flee to Saigon after their village on the Mekong River is attacked by American forces and burned to the ground. The sole survivors of the brutal massacre that killed their family, the sisters struggle to survive but become estranged, separated by sharply different choices and ideologies. Ma...

Little Molly Messenger is kidnapped on a sunny June morning. Three days later she’s returned unharmed. Then the brakes go out on her mother's car. An accident? Except that her mother may have may have misappropriated three million dollars. Doubleback reunites PI Georgia Davis with video producer Ellie Foreman, who track leads from Chicago to Wisconsin to the Arizona border.Little Molly Messenger is kidnapped on a sunny June morning. Three days later she’s returned unharmed. Then t...

On the eve of the Cuban Revolution, headstrong 18-year-old Francesca Pacelli flees from her ruthless Mafia-boss father in Havana to the arms of her lover, a rebel fighting with Fidel Castro. Her father, desperate to send her to safety in the US, resorts to torture and blackmail as he searches the island for her.So begins the first part of a spellbinding saga that spans three generations of the same family. Decades later, the family is lured back to Cuba by the promise of untold ric...

Honors:Finalist in the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery and Suspense.Finalist for the 2015 Shamus Award, Best PI Indie Novel.Finalist in the Chicago Writers Association — Fiction CategoryShortlisted for the Kindle Book Review Awards: Mystery/Thriller categoryFinalist in the Fiction: Mystery/Suspense — 2015 USA Best Book AwardsIn Hellmann's 11th crime thriller and the 4th Geor...

Honors and Awards:Winner, IPPY Gold Medal, Suspense/Thriller CategoryFinalist, Chicago Writers Association, Best Book of the Year, Indie FictionHow do you solve a murder when there are 42,000 suspects?That’s the task facing Chicago PI Georgia Davis, hired to hunt down those behind the assassination of Resistance leader Dena Baldwin at a demonstration fourteen months after the 2016 election. The gunman, on a ...

Blue is the new Noir, and nobody does Blues like Chicago.Twenty-one stories by some of the best Chicago crime fiction authors: Stuart Kaminsky, Max Allan Collins, Sara Paretsky, Libby Fischer Hellmann, Marcus Sakey, Sean Chercover, J.A. Konrath, Barbara D'Amato, and more. It was originally published in hardcover and paperback in October, 2007.The depths to which people sink when they have the Blues. The emptiness and pain caused by greed. The violence of re...