If only she could figure out what it is…Ī Picture of Guilt follows Ellie’s award winning debut in An Eye for Murder.
Everything indicates that someone wants something from her, something bigger than the Santoro case. She doesn’t have answers, but she has questions of her own about the radio transmissions. Almost immediately, Ellie’s world begins to shift: a suspicious vehicle follows her, the Chicago mob shows up, and the FBI wants to question her. But the tape is compromised by strange radio interference and Santoro goes to jail. Checking back to the outtakes of a video project in progress while the murder took place, Ellie finds evidence that could save Santoro from a lifetime behind bars. Most Chicagoans are betting on a quick guilty verdict, but Ellie Foreman has doubts about his complicity Santoro is strangely familiar to her. The big news story in Chicago is the murder trial of Johnny Santoro, a dock worker whose girlfriend has been killed. She lives and writes in the Chicago area.
Her film editor instincts tell her when to let a scene run on and when to cut away.’ Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune Libby Hellmann holds a MFA in film production from New York University, and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. Hellmann has a beautifully tuned ear, which makes many of her scenes seriously funny. An Eye for Murder is a clever mystery puzzle within a beautifully wrought novel.’ Jeremiah Healy author of the John Francis Cuddy mysteries ‘A masterful blend of politics, history, and suspense, this novel is well worth reading.’ Publishers Weekly ‘Complicated, fascinating. Triggered by a seemingly trivial exchange of intelligence in Prague near the end of World War II, the story quickly moves to contemporary Chicago, where the already harried life of Ellie Foreman is turned upside down by the death of an elderly man she can’t recall ever even meeting. ‘Libby Fischer Hellmann has written a wonderful thriller.
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