Libby Fischer Hellmann: 42 books

"Libby Fischer Hellmann powerfully illustrates what individuals could have faced while living in such perilous times. This is an engaging read with much food for thought." BookReporter.com "Fast reading and well told, the three tales are intriguing, smoothly written and enjoyable....

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...

Short stories are the poetry of prose. Mistakes, in a novel, can be buried. In a short story, they stand out like roaches on a sugar cookie. Short stories are precise, cut to the bone, every word a necessity. A novel may go far afield, but a great short story requires unbelievable restraint. Not many...

1st place Gold Winner IPPY 2019 Award, Suspense-Thriller How 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...

A Taste of Noir: Volume 1 includes four short stories from the collection Nice Girl Does Noir by award-winning crime fiction author Libby Fischer Hellmann. The stories in Taste, Volume 1 include: “Detour” This story, about a hit woman who takes out the wrong mark, was originally written...

“Libby Fischer Hellmann has already joined an elite club: Chicago mystery writers who not only inhabit the environment but also give it a unique flavor... her series continues in fine style... (Ellie)... lights up the page with courage and energy." —Chicago Tribune “This Libby...

Georgia Davis è comparsa per la prima volta nel mio terzo romanzo, AN IMAGE OF DEATH, che è stato pubblicato nel 2004. È anche la protagonista di questo racconto, scritto e pubblicato più o meno nello stesso periodo. Georgia, un’agente del corpo di polizia locale, è...

IL GIORNO IN CUI MIRIAM HIRSCH SCOMPARVE è stato il primo racconto breve che ho scritto. Mio figlio aveva ricevuto per il suo Bar Mitzwah un libro intitolato “THE JEWS OF CHICAGO” e quando ne sfogliai le fotografie mi colpirono in particolare quelle scattate nella Lawndale degli anni Trenta...

Questa storia con Ellie come protagonista è stata pubblicata nel 2005 nell’antologia TECHNO NOIR, a cura di Eva Batonne e Jeffery Marks. Tenete conto che l’antologia è stata pubblicata prima di Facebook e di Twitter. Libby Fischer Hellmann è un’autrice di romanzi gialli...

This story was written for the anthology of my friend Joe Konrath, THESE GUNS FOR HIRE (Bleack House, 2007). As he wrote in the introduction, this is one of my first attempts with the hard-boiled genre and found it liberating. I was actually pushed into a whole new direction. It is also available...

Il mio contributo al libro CHICAGO BLUES (Bleak House, 2007) ha significato intraprendere una via al di fuori del mio “mondo sicuro”, ma è questo quello che amo dello scrivere racconti brevi. Mi permettono di sfruttare al massimo e sperimentare diversi personaggi, trame, epoche e ambientazioni....

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...

A Taste of Noir includes four short stories from the collection Nice Girl Does Noir by award-winning crime fiction author Libby Fischer Hellmann. The stories in Taste, Volume 3 include: 'A Berlin Story' This story first appeared in the SHOW BUSINESS IS MURDER anthology, edited by the late,...

A Taste of Noir includes four short stories from the collection Nice Girl Does Noir by award-winning crime fiction author Libby Fischer Hellmann. The stories in Taste, Volume 2 include: "Your Sweet Man" My contribution to CHICAGO BLUES (Bleak House, 2007) was way out of my comfort...