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Presents a collection of crime stories set in Chicago, written by Chicago authors, including Sara Paretsky, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Michael A. Black, and Marcus Sakey.
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Libby Fischer Hellmann is a transplant from Washington, D.C.. She has lived in the Chicago area almost thirty years. When not writing fiction, she conducts executive training programs in presentation skills, speech delivery, and media interviews. She also writes video scripts, articles, and speeches. She holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Film Production from New York University. After an eight year stint in television news, including PBS and NBC, she spent eight years at Burson-Marsteller, the large public relations firm. Libby lives on the North Shore of Chicago with her family and a Beagle, shamelessly named Shiloh.
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This classy anthology of mostly original short stories from 21 renowned Windy City authors blends the blues, crime and Chicago, quite surpassing Akashic's recent Chicago Noir. Several series heroes make appearances, including Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski, Kris Nelscott's Smokey Dalton and J.A. Konrath's Jack Daniels. Stuart M. Kaminsky takes a different tack with Blue Note, a fine story of a poker game where the real stakes are a mother's fingers. Two authors with acclaimed recent debut novels, Jack Fredrickson (A Safe Place for Dying) and Marcus Sakey (The Blade Itself), demonstrate equal talent in short form. Best of all are Michael Allen Dymoch's A Shade of Blue in which a man claims to have witnessed a murder that took place 30 years earlier; D.C. Brod's My Heroes Have Always Been Shortstops, which measures the depths of a Cubs fan's devotion; and Barb D'Amato's The Lower Wacker Hilton, about the death of a homeless man in Chicago's underworld. This impressive volume has soul, grit and plenty of high notes. (Oct.)
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