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Second Sunday Books is coming to you from the Windy City, but I'm expanding the range of books and authors I interview. Historical fiction, women's fiction, action-adventure, and non-fiction (especially history, biographies, and politics) will be served. Unfortunately, no romance, sci-fi, or horror. And of course, I'll still be talking to mystery and thriller authors. Join me once a month on Second Sunday Books for the inside stories about stories.
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Join Author Libby Fischer Hellmann in conversation with Les Edgerton
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"After 25 years as an author and reader, it’s rare for me to start a novel and finish it in one sitting. But I did with HARD TIMES by Les Edgerton. Set during the recent past in the deep South, the novel tells the dark story of Amelia Critchin, a principled and faith-filled woman who accepts responsibility for marrying the wrong man and is punished…
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Second Sunday Books Welcomes Historical Fiction Author Judith Starkston
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Author Judith Starkston's 3rd historical fiction novel was released a week after BEND. OF KINGS AND GRIFFINS is a mashup of historical and fantasy and is delightful! (The cover is gorgeous as you'll see). She and I shared a conversation about writing historical, why we do it, and what's the hardest part. Enjoy!…
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Second Sunday Books Welcomes Kelli Stanley, founder of Nasty Woman Press and the SHATTERING GLASS Anthology
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Shattering Glass is the first in a series of remarkable anthologies published by Nasty Woman Press, a unique non-profit publisher founded to help fund other organizations threatened by the rise of autocracy and the ongoing war against civil and human rights in the United States. A scintillating mixture of top-flight fiction from bestselling authors…
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Second Sunday Books & Libby Hellmann welcome Three Hours in Paris author Cara Black
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In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light—abruptly leaving, never to return. To this day, no one knows why. The New York Times bestselling author of the Aimée Leduc investigations reimagines history in her masterful, pulse-pounding spy thriller, Three Hours in Paris. Kate Rees, a young A…
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Red Letter Days author Sarah-Jane Stratford Visits Second Sunday Books
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When two brave women flee from the Communist Red Scare, they soon discover that no future is free from the past. Amid the glitz and glamour of 1950s New York, Phoebe Adler pursues her dream of screenwriting. A dream that turns into a living nightmare when she is blacklisted—caught in the Red Menace that is shattering the lives of suspected Communis…
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Silver Falchion winner and USA Today best-selling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins on Second Sunday Books
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Second Sunday Books host LIbby Hellmann welcomes USA Today best-selling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins who is also a colleague in the network; she host Wine Women & Writing. I am a wannabe barrel racer afraid of going fast, an eater of ribeye, a rescuer of dogs, a fangirl podcaster, and the author of USA Today bestselling mysteries. {By the way, to g…
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Allen Eskens Visits Libby Hellmann on Second Sunday Books
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Missouri native Allen Eskens' "stunning small-town mystery" (New York Times Book Review) is "a coming-of-age book to rival some of the best, such as Ordinary Grace." (Library Journal, starred review) A LIBRARY JOURNAL Mystery Pick of the Month In a small Southern town where loyalty to family and to "your people" carries the weight of a sacred oath,…
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BAD TURN Author Zoe Sharp Visits Second Sunday Books with Libby Hellmann
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Second Sunday Crime author and host Libby Fischer Hellmann welcomes international best-selling author of the Charlie Fox series, ZOE SHARP. ABOUT ZOE: Sharp wrote her first novel when she was fifteen, but success came in 2001 with the publication of KILLER INSTINCT—the first book to feature her ex-Special Forces turned bodyguard heroine, Charlotte …
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Second Sunday Books Libby Hellmann Talks to Susan Miura, Author of SHARDS OF LIGHT
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Author Susan Miura successfully combines mystery, romance, and Christian Fiction in a delightful, award-winning novel, SHARDS OF LIGHT. Ice crystalizes around Shilo’s heart, threatening to plunge her into darkness as she’s gripped by evil. And it is only Week Two of her summer-long exile to Sicily. But Shilo will face the evil, and the torment of m…
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LIZ Zelvin, Editor of ME TOO STORIES, Visits Second Sunday Books
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Me Too Short Stories: An Anthology What do women want? A voice. To be heard. Respect. To be believed. Justice. To be both safe and free. The women in these stories have daughters, sisters, friends. The minister worries about her parishioners. The banshee worries about the Hippocratic Oath. The microbiologist worries about her obligation to the dead…
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Thomas Maier, journalist & author of MAFIA SPIES, visits Second Sunday Books
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Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America’s most remarkable espionage plots ever—with CIA agents, mob hitmen, “kompromat” sex, presidential indiscretion, and James Bond-like killing devices together in a top-secret mystery full of surprise twists and deadly intrigue. In the early 1960s, two top gangsters, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, wer…
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William Kent Krueger 1st Official Podcast on THIS TENDER LAND
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Kent Krueger stops by Second Sunday Books 10 days before the release of his sure to be best-selling historical novel THIS TENDER LAND. #1 Indie Next Pick for September! Library Reads Selection for September “Lively . . . Krueger’s enjoyable riff on The Odyssey will satisfy fans of American heartland epics.”—Publishers Weekly “Richly imagined and ex…
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Patricia Skalka Visits Second Sunday Books with her 5th mystery, Death By The Bay
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Join me for a chat with author Patricia Skalka about her new medical mystery Death by the Bay. On a chilly Monday in late spring, Door County Sheriff Dave Cubiak is at the Green Arbor Lodge for lunch when a scream from a nearby medical conference disrupts the scene. Leaping into action, he finds the ninety-three-year-old director of the prestigious…
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Join host Libby Fischer Hellmann in conversation with Author Cara Black as they discuss her latest release Murder in Bel-Air.
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Join host Libby Fischer Hellmann in conversation with Author Cara Black as they discuss her latest release Murder in Bel-Air. Cara Black’s riveting 19th installment in her New York Times bestselling Parisian detective series entangles private investigator Aimée Leduc in a dangerous web of international spycraft, post-colonial Franco-African politic…
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Susanna Calkins, authorof MURDER KNOCKS TWICE, visits Libby Hellmann at Second Sunday Books
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Join host Libby Fischer Hellmann in coversation with Author Susanna Calkins. The first mystery in Susanna Calkins’ captivating new series takes readers into the dark, dangerous, and glittering underworld of a 1920's Chicago speakeasy. MURDER KNOCKS TWICE: Gina Ricci takes on a job as a cigarette girl to earn money for her ailing father—and to prove…
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Debut Author Rachel Barenbaum, A BEND IN THE STARS, Visits Second Sunday Books
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Join host Libby Fischer Hellmann in conversation with Debut Author Rachel Barenbaum. A BEND IN THE STARS **A Summer 2019 B&N Discover Great New Writers selection** For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Women in the Castle comes a riveting literary novel that is at once an epic love story and a heart-pounding journey across WWI-era Russia,…
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A.C. Frieden stops by to chat with Libby Fischer Hellmann
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A.C. Frieden stops by to chat with Libby Fischer Hellmann about his latest release in the Jonathan Brooks Thriller Series - The Pyongyang Option. New Orleans attorney Jonathan Brooks is desperate to rebuild his law firm after Hurricane Katrina. Short on clients, he takes the only work he can find: a murky business deal in Ukraine. But after he land…
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