An Eye for Murder
An Ellie Foreman Mystery
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Review: Libby Fischer Hellmann introduces Chicago documentary producer Ellie Foreman in An Eye for Murder.
This book is both a multi-generational historical mystery and a political mystery, and Hellmann does a fine job blending the two into a modern-day mystery for amateur working-mother sleuth Ellie Foreman. The pace of the story is brisk and the fairly complicated plot will keep readers guessing up to the end.
Hellmann's depiction of Ellie Foreman allows for considerable growth of her character in future mysteries. There's affection, conflict, and complications with all the people in her life: her daugher, her father, her ex-husband, a potential romantic partner, and her business associates. You might not always agree with her decisions, but you respect her for making them.
An Eye for Murder is a very fine start to a promising mystery series.
Acknowledgment: Poisoned Pen Press provided an ARC of An Eye for Murder for this review.
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Selected reviews of other mysteries by this author …
A Picture of Guilt
Poisoned Pen Press (Hardcover), July 2003
ISBN-13: 9781590580738; ISBN-10: 1590580737
Location(s) referenced in An Eye for Murder: Chicago, Illinois
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An Eye for Murder by Libby Fischer Hellmann
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1-59058-035-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-59058-035-6
Publication Date: November 2002
List Price: $24.95
Synopsis (from the publisher): It begins in 1944 Prague, but the madness—and the murder—move on to contemporary Chicago where an old man has died. Then it goes to the North Shore suburbs where documentary filmmaker Ellie Foreman gets a letter prompted by the success of her show Celebrate Chicago. The landlady of the dead Ben Sinclair has found Ellie’s name among his effects. Why? Mrs. Fleischman is uneasy, and wants to know, moreover, if Ben could have been murdered. Ellie became a filmmaker to help people tell their stories. The books and wartime relics Ben left behind—will they be enough to tell his?
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