"Entertaining cerebral thriller"
Film and TV producer Ellie Foreman lives in a suburb of
Chicago. She has gained local fame for her "Celebrate
Chicago" televised show. When senior citizen Ben Sinclair
dies of an apparent heart attack, his landlady Ruth goes
through his things and comes across Ellie's name. The
landlady gets in touch with Ellie whose curiosity takes her
to Ruth's house to see if she ever met the deceased. She comes away with his zippo lighter and the positive
feeling of knowing she never met the man. When she
shows the lighter to her father he recognizes it as
belonging to a man he once knew as Ben Skulnick, who fought
in the Resistance, but later was sent to prison for
murder. Very shortly after that Ben's landlady dies
supposedly of natural causes. A string of murders and
attempted murder follow with every victim connected to Ben
Sinclair leading Ellie to wander if his death was really
natural causes. As she connects the dots to the puzzle,
she puts her own life in danger. Libby Fischer Hellmann's debut novel is a very entertaining
cerebral thriller. The story line is plausible as the
characters and their motives are considerably realistic
while the link between Nazi war crimes and a present day
politician running for office seems plausible too. AN EYE
FOR MURDER will not be this author's sole published mystery
as fans will encourage Ms. Hellmann to publish more tales
starring a delightful TV producer turned amateur sleuth. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted October 10, 2002
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