Set The Night On Fire: A 1960s Crime Thriller (Hardcover)

A Daughter Uncovers Her Father’s Secret From Chicago’s Summer of 1968

Someone is trying to kill Lila Hilliard. Her family home burns with her father and brother inside. A stranger on a motorcycle runs her down. As Lila races to figure out who wants her dead and why, she uncovers a secret her father buried decades ago — in the volatile summer of 1968, when the Democratic Convention brought riots, radicals, and the Black Panthers to the streets of Chicago.

Part thriller, part historical novel, part love story, Set the Night on Fire moves between present-day danger and a turbulent past that refuses to stay buried. It’s the story that launched Libby Fischer Hellmann’s Saga Series — a collection of historical novels spanning war and its aftermath, each a complete standalone.

What Reviewers Say:

A tremendous book—sweeping but intimate, elegiac but urgent, subtle but intense. This story really does set the night on fire. Lee Child

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

Electric… a marvelous novel. RT Book Reviews

Haunting… Rarely have history, mystery, and political philosophy blended so beautifully… could easily end up on the required reading list in college-level American History classes. Betty Webb, Mystery Scene

A top-rate thriller that taps into the antiwar protests of the 1960s… A jazzy fusion of past and present, Hellman’s insightful, politically charged whodunit explores a fascinating period in American history. Publishers Weekly

Learn more: Read an excerpt at https://libbyhellmann.com/books/set-the-night-on-fire/