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    An Eye For Murder: An Ellie Foreman Mystery
    An Eye For Murder: An Ellie Foreman Mystery
    An Eye For Murder: An Ellie Foreman Mystery
    Audiobook9 hours

    An Eye For Murder: An Ellie Foreman Mystery

    Written by Libby Fischer Hellmann

    Narrated by Karyn O'Bryant

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    August, 1944, Prague is where the story begins with a seemingly casual exchange. Decades later, in contemporary Chicago, TV documentary filmmaker Ellie Foreman gets a letter prompted by the success of her show "Celebrate Chicago." One viewer was the elderly Ben Sinclair. When he suddenly dies, his landlady Mrs. Fleischman finds Ellie's name among his effects and writes to her. Ellie agrees to help dispose of Ben Sinclair's possessions. She became a filmmaker to help people tell their stories. All too soon, Mrs. Fleischman dies, too. Then Ben's things are stolen from Ellie's suburban home. The single mom, working to move past her ex, is producing a campaign video for a steel magnate running for a seat in the Illinois Senate. Despite these distractions, Ellie stays focused on her link to the dead man and turns to her father, a retired lawyer with deep roots in Chicago's Jewish community, for insights into the mystery of Ben Sinclair. From the political present of the North Shore to the buried memories of the city's ethnic neighborhoods, the components of Ben's story eventually merge into an explosive climax.

    A masterful blend of politics, history, and suspense, this novel is well worth reading… sharp humor and vivid language… Ellie is an engaging amateur sleuth. Publishers Weekly

    A clever blend of thrills and humor… Hellmann has created a compelling group of believable characters… Chicago Sun-Times

    Complicated… fascinating… Hellmann has a beautifully tuned ear… which makes many of her scenes seriously funny. Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune

    Entertaining and well written… a surprising and satisfying conclusion… clever . Ted Hertel, Mystery News

    Anthony Award Nominee

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Red Herrings Press Audio
    Release dateDec 10, 2011
    ISBN9781938733000
    An Eye For Murder: An Ellie Foreman Mystery
    Author

    Libby Fischer Hellmann

    Libby Fischer Hellmann left a career in broadcast news in Washington, DC and moved to Chicago 35 years ago, where she, naturally, began to write gritty crime fiction. Twelve novels and twenty short stories later, she claims they’ll take her out of the Windy City feet first. She has been nominated for many awards in the mystery and crime writing community and has even won a few. With the addition of Jump Cut in 2016, her novels include the now five-volume Ellie Foreman series, which she describes as a cross between “Desperate Housewives” and “24;” the hard-boiled 4-volume Georgia Davis PI series, and three stand-alone historical thrillers that Libby calls her “Revolution Trilogy.” Last fall The Incidental Spy,  a historical novella set during the early years of the Manhattan Project at the U of Chicago was released. Her short stories have been published in a dozen anthologies, the Saturday Evening Post, and Ed Gorman’s “25 Criminally Good Short Stories” collection.  In 2005 Libby was the national president of Sisters In Crime, a 3500 member organization dedicated to the advancement of female crime fiction authors. More at http://libbyhellmann.com * She has been a finalist twice for the Anthony, three times for Foreword Magazines Book of the Year, the Agatha, the Shamus, the Daphne and has won the Lovey multiple times.

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    • 3/5
      I am always disappointed when a book has 57 chapters and it may have been better written in 25.

      I think she is a good author but I thought the story plodded along. I kept skipping ahead to see what happens next and not much did.

      I couldn't write anything nearly as good as this but I got bored waiting for something to happen.