Set the Night on Fire (Audible Audio Edition) Libby Fischer Hellmann Diane Piron Gelman The Red Herrings Press Books
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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.
Set the Night on Fire was named a finalist in Foreword Magazine's 2010 Book of the Year in Mystery/Suspense.
Set the Night on Fire (Audible Audio Edition) Libby Fischer Hellmann Diane Piron Gelman The Red Herrings Press Books
LIbby Fischer Hellmann is a great mystery writer and her books hold your attention from beginning to end. This one is no exception. I would suggest taking Libby along on vacation. You could relax and read and really enjoy one of her books. It is fast reading, a good story and will introduce you to a very good mystery writer.Product details
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Set the Night on Fire (Audible Audio Edition) Libby Fischer Hellmann Diane Piron Gelman The Red Herrings Press Books Reviews
It's the year 1968. The United States of America. Civil Rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. has been assassinated in April in Memphis. U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy has been killed in June in Los Angeles. And in August the Chicago Seven have been arrested for conspiracy to incite a riot at the Democratic National Convention.
Libby Fischer Hellmann sets her genre-defying novel in the Chicago of 1968...and forty years later. The novel is a historical thriller, a "politically-charged whodunit," a hippie love story and/or a fictional classic about the anti-war protestors of The Sixties. Her characters are six college drop-outs Dar, Casey, Alix, Rain, Payton and Teddie. Gar is the leader of the group. He's the son of a blue-collar auto worker and a Michigan MOBE - Mobilization to End the War. He has helped organize busloads of students to drive from Ann Arbor to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to protest the war in Vietnam.
Hellmann begins her novel, Part One The Present, with co-narrators. Lila Hilliard is in Chicago to celebrate the Christmas holiday with her father, Casey, and her twin brother. Dar Gartner is in Chicago having been released from prison after forty years of incarceration. Lila has been shopping for tree lights and returns to find her father and brother have perished in a devastating house fire. Dar attempts to call old friends and finds himself on the run.
Part Two 1968-70 introduces Gar's friends who stayed around Chicago after the riots. Alix, the daughter of a wealthy department store owner. Rain, with her round glasses, platinum hair and enthusiasm. Casey and Teddie, who were students at Michigan with Gar. Payton, who spouts propaganda with every breath, from a campus in Iowa. We visit Chicago sights - The Coliseum, Grant Park, the Maxwell Street markets, the commune in Old Town. We hear of a department store bombing. A member of the commune is killed.
Part Three The Present redeems the past and solves the mysteries. Lila learns about her mother. Dar finds answers to unresolved questions.
And we the readers discover or relive this fascinating part of American history.
Exciting--slightly predictable
I have about 30 books on the 60's, every thing from music to politics, race and pop culture. This was a nice insight into that era.
Suspense ridden book. An excellent read!! Great character development. A pretty fast read. Love her writing!!!. She is 1 of the best mystery writers that I read.
Libby Fischer Hellmann's "Set the Night on Fire" is a complex, and thought provoking thriller that moves effortlessly between modern day Chicago and the turbulent Chicago of the late 60s. The book is particularly compelling in the way it uses the late 60s as a lens to view events today and visa versa. The characters are complex and very human, and the different choices and compromises that they make as the "movement" splinters and falls apart are for me the heart of the book. Any novel set amidst the radical politics of the time risks becoming a polemic, but this book is anything but. Right and wrong are not absolutes, and ultimately the important decisions that the characters make are personal rather than political. The pace of the book is fast and the suspense is character driven rather than built on plot gimmicks. Highly recommended.
Wow! What a great read.
Libby Fischer Hellmann's Set the Night on Fire is an interesting thriller and historical look back to the Summer of Rage in 1960s Chicago. Very authentic feel and trip down memory lane to the music of the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, the Doors and the anti-Vietnam war protests. I knew some of these characters in my university days(though none that set off any bombs).
I highly recommend this book to anyone, but it will be especially meaningful to Baby Boomers.
James A Anderson, Author
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I especially appreciated this book because it held my interest and it was not a series. Hmmmm four more words. That should do it.
LIbby Fischer Hellmann is a great mystery writer and her books hold your attention from beginning to end. This one is no exception. I would suggest taking Libby along on vacation. You could relax and read and really enjoy one of her books. It is fast reading, a good story and will introduce you to a very good mystery writer.
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