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Set the Night on Fire: thriller that goes back to the '60s
Hi, all. I've just joined the forum and wanted to introduce my 7th novel, SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE, which was released in December. It's a stand-alone thriller that goes back, in part, to the late Sixties in Chicago. Here's the jacket description:

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 her, but now threatens to destroy her. Part thriller, part historical novel, and part love story, Set the Night on Fire paints an unforgettable portrait of Chicago during a turbulent time: the riots at the Democratic Convention . . . the struggle for power between the Black Panthers and SDS . . . and a group of young idealists who tried to change the world.

And here are some early blurbs:
"A tremendous book - sweeping but intimate, elegiac but urgent, subtle but intense. This story really does set the night on fire." --Lee Child

"Hellman delivers a top-rate standalone thriller that taps into the antiwar protests of the 1960s and 70s... A jazzy fusion of past and present, Hellman's insightful, politically charged whodunit explores a fascinating period in American history."
—Publishers Weekly

"A brilliantly-paced thriller, transitioning seamlessly from modern-day Chicago to the late '60s. First-rate characterization...Best to start early in the day, as it is easy to stay up all night reading it." --Foreword Magazine

RT Top Pick for December: "Electric... a marvelous novel." --RT Book Reviews

It's on Kindle and Smashwords, Sony and Nook, and more. Here's the Kindle link:
http://www.amazon.com/Set-Night-Fire...0472519&sr=8-2

Hope you'll check it out... this turned out to be a much more personal book than I'd intended. BTw, there's a book trailer too... for those of you who like them... at my website.

Thanks for reading this far!

Libby Fischer Hellmann
www.libbyhellmann.com
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