An Image of Death: An Ellie Foreman Mystery
About this ebook
Chicago filmmaker Ellie Foreman is back, and she’s tackling her most dangerous case yet.
A gritty suspense thriller, An Image of Death finds Chicago filmmaker Ellie Foreman producing a documentary financed by a successful Chicago real estate developer. But things take an unexpected turn on a cold winter night when a mysterious package is dropped on Ellie’s doorstep. Inside is a surveillance video apparently showing the murder of a young woman. Who was this woman? Why was she murdered? What is her connection to Ellie?
"A powerful tale... Foreman’s pluck and grit married to Hellmann’s solid storytelling should win a growing audience..." Publishers Weekly
Ellie takes the video to the police, where she is paired with Officer Georgia Davis (soon to have her own series.) The two, forced to work together, begin to uncover pieces of the victim's dark history, forged in Eastern Europe at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Their search for answers takes Ellie into the murky world of money laundering, diamond dealing, and sex trafficking. Soon, thought, they end up at a deserted construction site in the hands of people who think the women know too much.
"The story is action packed with twists that keep you turning the pages. Ms. Hellman has done a fabulous job in bringing two worlds together. ... a must read." Romance Readers Connection
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About the author
With critics describing her work as "masterful" and "meticulously researched", it's not hard to see why Libby's thrilling and richly varied crime novels have won numerous awards. Libby is exceptionally committed to her work, and in 2005-2006 she was the National President of Sisters in Crime, a 3,400+ member organization dedicated to strengthening the voice of female mystery writers.
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Libby started out in broadcast news, beginning her career as an assistant film editor for NBC News in New York before moving back to DC to work with Robin MacNeil and Jim Lehrer at N-PACT, the public affairs production arm of PBS. Retrained as an assistant director when Watergate broke, Libby helped produce PBS's night-time broadcast of the hearings. She went on to work for public relations firm Burson-Marsteller in Chicago in 1978, where she stayed until she left to found Fischer Hellmann Communications in 1985.
Originally from Washington, D.C.--where, she says, "When you're sitting around the dinner table gossiping about the neighbors, you're talking politics"-- Libby earned a Masters Degree in Film Production from New York University and a BA in History from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to writing, multi-talented Libby writes and produces videos, and conducts speaker training programs in platform speaking, presentation skills, media training and crisis communications.
Libby's best-selling novels have won widespread acclaim, with her first novel, An Eye for Murder, nominated for several awards and described by Publisher's Weekly as "a masterful blend of politics, history, and suspense."
Libby is known for her portrayal of strong female characters. An Eye for Murder introduced Ellie Foreman, a video producer and single mother who went on to star in several more novels in a series described by Libby as "a cross between Desperate Housewives and 24." Libby's second series followed the Chicago PI Georgia Davis, a no-nonsense detective who has been featured in three books so far, with a fourth due out next year. In addition to her hugely popular series, Libby has also written three standalone thrillers in diverse settings and historical periods that demonstrate her versatility as a writer. Through her "Revolution Trilogy," (Set the Night on Fire, A Bitter Veil, and Havana Lost) we meet young activists during the late Sixties, a young American woman who marries and moves to Tehran, and a female Mafia boss who chases power at the expense of love.
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