Easy Innocence by Libby Fischer Hellmann

Warshawski a run for her money.” There are six books in that series: EASY INNOCENCE(2008) and DOUBLEBACK(2009), which was selected as a Great Lakes Booksellers’ Association “2009 Great Read ” TOXICITY(2011), a police procedural ebook thriller that became the prequel to the Georgia Davis series NOBODY’S CHILD (2014), which was nominated for both a Shamus and a Daphne Award, HIGH CRIMES(2018), a political-PI thriller, and DOUBLEBLIND (2022), a medical and crime thriller. In 2008 Libby introduced her second series featuring hard-boiled Chicago PI Georgia Davis, which the Chicago Tribune described as “a new no-nonsense detective… tough and smart enough to give even the legendary V.I. That was followed by five more entries in the Ellie Foreman series, which Libby describes as a cross between “Desperate Housewives” and “24.” Publishers Weekly called it a “masterful blend of politics, history, and suspense,” and it was nominated for several awards. Her first novel, AN EYE FOR MURDER, which features Ellie Foreman, a video producer and single mother, was released in 2002. Libby also occasionally writes and produces videos.

When not writing, she conducts speaker training programs in platform speaking, presentation skills, media training, and crisis communications. In 1978, Hellmann moved to Chicago to work at Burson-Marsteller, the large public relations firm, staying until 1985 when she founded Fischer Hellmann Communications.

When Watergate broke, she was trained as an assistant director and helped produce PBS’s night-time broadcasts of the hearings.

She began as an assistant film editor at NBC News in New York, but moved back to DC where she worked with Robin McNeil and Jim Lehrer at N-PACT, the public affairs production arm of PBS. She is a transplant from Washington, D.C., where, she says, “When you’re sitting around the dinner table gossiping about the neighbors, you’re talking politics.” Armed with a Masters Degree in Film Production from New York University, and a BA in history from the University of Pennsylvania, she started her career in broadcast news. With seventeen novels and twenty-five short stories published, she has also written suspense mysteries, historicals, PI novels, amateur sleuth, police procedurals, and even a cozy mystery. Libby Fischer Hellmann writes Compulsively Readable Thrillers.

Easy Innocence by Libby Fischer Hellmann