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.

(Ed. Note: Bestselling novelist Lee Child didn’t hold back when he called Set the Night on Fire “a tremendous book – sweeping but intimate, elegiac but urgent, subtle but intense.  This story really does set the night on fire.” Sometimes these bestselling authors’ blurbs are dashed off without much thought, but when I picked up Set the Night on Fire myself and read it through from start to finish it was clear to me that Child had done his homework. Libby Fischer Hellmann is an author of great and diverse talents, and this book is a triumph that, unless I miss my guess, will be read with great pleasure and gifted many, many times over during the coming holiday season. I know this: everyone on my holiday living list who owns a Kindle will be getting a copy, and I can’t imagine another gift for under $5 that would be more appreciated by any reader. –S.W.)

 

by Libby Fischer Hellmann

4.4 out of 5 stars – 5 Reviews 

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Here’s the set-up:

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.

“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