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Historical Thrillers & Fiction

I started writing historical thrillers and fiction with SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE. I love throwing ordinary people into extraordinary times and watch what happens…
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Do you read historical fiction? If so, did you know crime author Libby Fischer Hellmann has 5 novels set in the past? A history major in college, Libby combined her thirst for history with a yearning to create characters living in turbulent times. Whether it’s Cuba, Iran, Vietnam, World War II, or the Late Sixties in the U.S., Libby has written what reviewers call “masterfully crafted historicals.” Dive into one of her Revolution Sagas. This is history they didn’t teach you in high school. Saga, Birthday Humor, 50th Birthday, History Major, In High School, Start Writing, New Series, Historical Fiction, Thriller
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Do you read historical fiction? If so, did you know crime author Libby Fischer Hellmann has 5 novels set in the past? A history major in college, Libby combined her thirst for history with a yearning to create characters living in turbulent times. Whether it’s Cuba, Iran, Vietnam, World War II, or the Late Sixties in the U.S., Libby has written what reviewers call “masterfully crafted historicals.” Dive into one of her Revolution Sagas. This is history they didn’t teach you in high school.
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Historical Thrillers & Fiction
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Do you read historical fiction? If so, did you know crime author Libby Fischer Hellmann has 5 novels set in the past? A history major in college, Libby combined her thirst for history with a yearning to create characters living in turbulent times. Whether it’s Cuba, Iran, Vietnam, World War II, or the Late Sixties in the U.S., Libby has written what reviewers call “masterfully crafted historicals.” Dive into one of her Revolution Sagas. This is history they didn’t teach you in high school.
Do you read historical fiction? If so, did you know crime author Libby Fischer Hellmann has 5 novels set in the past? A history major in college, Libby combined her thirst for history with a yearning to create characters living in turbulent times. Whether it’s Cuba, Iran, Vietnam, World War II, or the Late Sixties in the U.S., Libby has written what reviewers call “masterfully crafted historicals.” Dive into one of her Revolution Sagas. This is history they didn’t teach you in high school.
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Historical Thrillers & Fiction
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Do you read historical fiction? Do you love to escape to a former time and place? If so, did you know crime author Libby Fischer Hellmann has 5 novels set in the past? And that her most recent, A Bend In The River, won the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year in Fiction? With winter closing in, it's time to dive into what Libby calls her “Revolution Sagas,” 5 historical novels set during turbulent times. This is the history they didn’t teach you in high school. Call Her, Revolution, Intense, The Past, Novels
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Do you read historical fiction? Do you love to escape to a former time and place? If so, did you know crime author Libby Fischer Hellmann has 5 novels set in the past? And that her most recent, A Bend In The River, won the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year in Fiction? With winter closing in, it's time to dive into what Libby calls her “Revolution Sagas,” 5 historical novels set during turbulent times. This is the history they didn’t teach you in high school.
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Historical Thrillers & Fiction
Part thriller, part historical novel, part love story, Set The Night on Fire reveals the resolution to Lila's family secrets. It also tells an extraordinary tale about the stormy Chicago 1968 Democratic convention, SDS, the Black Panthers, women's issues, and a group of idealists who were sure they would change the world. Suspense Books, Thriller Books, Crime Fiction, Fiction Novels, 1968 Democratic Convention, Great Stories, Sixties, Book Club Books, Book Format
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Part thriller, part historical novel, part love story, Set The Night on Fire reveals the resolution to Lila's family secrets. It also tells an extraordinary tale about the stormy Chicago 1968 Democratic convention, SDS, the Black Panthers, women's issues, and a group of idealists who were sure they would change the world.
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Historical Thrillers & Fiction
A Bitter Veil tells the story of Anna and Nouri, both studying in Chicago, who fall in love despite their very different backgrounds. Anna, who has never been close to her parents, is more than happy to return with Nouri to his native Iran, to be embraced by his wealthy family. Beginning their married life together in 1978, their world is abruptly turned upside down by the overthrow of the Shah, and the rise of the Islamic Republic. Chicago Fall, Sisters In Crime, Broadcast News, Moving To Chicago, Young Americans, The Windy City, Writing Community
Chicago Fall
Sisters In Crime
Broadcast News
Moving To Chicago
Young Americans
The Windy City
Writing Community
A Bitter Veil tells the story of Anna and Nouri, both studying in Chicago, who fall in love despite their very different backgrounds. Anna, who has never been close to her parents, is more than happy to return with Nouri to his native Iran, to be embraced by his wealthy family. Beginning their married life together in 1978, their world is abruptly turned upside down by the overthrow of the Shah, and the rise of the Islamic Republic.
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Historical Thrillers & Fiction
A thriller set largely in Cuba… On the eve of the Cuban Revolution, headstrong 18-year-old Francesca Pacelli flees from her ruthless Mafia-boss father in Havana to the arms of her lover, a rebel fighting with Fidel Castro. Her father, desperate to send her to safety in the US, resorts to torture and blackmail as he searches the island for her. So begins the first part of a spellbinding saga that spans three generations of the same family. Mafia Families, Family Saga, Bnp, Bargain Books, Fiction Books, Lost Love, Cozy Mysteries, Mystery Thriller
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A thriller set largely in Cuba… On the eve of the Cuban Revolution, headstrong 18-year-old Francesca Pacelli flees from her ruthless Mafia-boss father in Havana to the arms of her lover, a rebel fighting with Fidel Castro. Her father, desperate to send her to safety in the US, resorts to torture and blackmail as he searches the island for her. So begins the first part of a spellbinding saga that spans three generations of the same family.
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Historical Thrillers & Fiction
As World War II rages across Europe and the Pacific, its impact ripples through communities in the heartland of America. A farm girl is locked in a dangerous love triangle with two German soldiers held in an Illinois POW camp … Another German, a war refugee, is forced to risk her life spying on the developing Manhattan Project in Chicago … And espionage surrounds the disappearance of an actress from the thriving Jewish community of Chicago’s Lawndale. Heartland, Illinois, Bobby Socks, Pow Camp, Mystery, Dangerous Love, Manhattan Project
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As World War II rages across Europe and the Pacific, its impact ripples through communities in the heartland of America. A farm girl is locked in a dangerous love triangle with two German soldiers held in an Illinois POW camp … Another German, a war refugee, is forced to risk her life spying on the developing Manhattan Project in Chicago … And espionage surrounds the disappearance of an actress from the thriving Jewish community of Chicago’s Lawndale.
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Historical Thrillers & Fiction
In 1968 two young Vietnamese sisters flee to Saigon after their village on the Mekong River is attacked by American forces and burned to the ground. The only survivors of the brutal massacre that killed their family, the sisters struggle to survive but become estranged, separated by sharply different choices and ideologies. Mai ekes out a living as a GI bar girl, but Tâm’s anger festers, and she heads into jungle terrain to fight with the Viet Cong. Historical Fiction Books, Park Ranger, Vietnam War, Goodreads, Bend, Hardcover, Sisters, Survival
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In 1968 two young Vietnamese sisters flee to Saigon after their village on the Mekong River is attacked by American forces and burned to the ground. The only survivors of the brutal massacre that killed their family, the sisters struggle to survive but become estranged, separated by sharply different choices and ideologies. Mai ekes out a living as a GI bar girl, but Tâm’s anger festers, and she heads into jungle terrain to fight with the Viet Cong.
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Historical Thrillers & Fiction