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Jump Cut
Libby Fischer Hellmann

Self Published
March 2016
On Sale: March 1, 2016
Featuring: Charlotte Hollander; Ellie Foreman
ISBN: 1464205191
EAN: 9781464205194
Kindle: B018UXGQ6U
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Mystery Woman Sleuth | Suspense

Chicago video producer Ellie Foreman has been absent from thriller author Libby Fischer Hellmann's repertoire for almost a decade. Now, in Jump Cut, she's back...and is soon entangled in a web of espionage, murder, and suspicion that threatens to destroy what she holds most dear.

Hired to produce a candy-floss profile of Chicago-based aviation giant Delcroft, Ellie is dismayed when company VP Charlotte Hollander trashes the production and cancels the project. Ellie believes Hollander was spooked by shots of a specific man in the video footage. But when Ellie arranges to meet the man to find out why, he is killed by a subway train before they can talk. In the confusion, she finds a seemingly abandoned pack of cigarettes with a flash drive inside that belonged to the now-dead man.

Ellie gets the drive's contents decrypted, but before long discovers she's under surveillance. Suspecting Delcroft and the ambitious Hollander are behind it, she's unconvinced when Hollander tells her the dead man was a Chinese spy. Ellie and her boyfriend, Luke, try to find answers, but they don't realize how far they have ventured into the dangerous echelons of hidden power-- where more lives are on the line―including their own.Chicago video producer Ellie Foreman has been absent from thriller author Libby Fischer Hellmann's repertoire for almost a decade. Now, in Jump Cut, she's back...and is soon entangled in a web of espionage, murder, and suspicion that threatens to destroy what she holds most dear.

Hired to produce a candy-floss profile of Chicago-based aviation giant Delcroft, Ellie is dismayed when company VP Charlotte Hollander trashes the production and cancels the project. Ellie believes Hollander was spooked by shots of a specific man in the video footage. But when Ellie arranges to meet the man to find out why, he is killed by a subway train before they can talk. In the confusion, she finds a seemingly abandoned pack of cigarettes with a flash drive inside that belonged to the now-dead man.

Ellie gets the drive's contents decrypted, but before long discovers she's under surveillance. Suspecting Delcroft and the ambitious Hollander are behind it, she's unconvinced when Hollander tells her the dead man was a Chinese spy. Ellie and her boyfriend, Luke, try to find answers, but they don't realize how far they have ventured into the dangerous echelons of hidden power-- where more lives are on the line―including their own.

Comments

16 comments posted.

Re: Jump Cut

Love your books! Thanks for the contest
(Teresa Williams 9:48am February 29, 2016)

It allows the reader to completely form their own image of
the character without the usual author clues.
(Nancy Ludvik 10:08am February 29, 2016)

I think it is interesting that you choose to leave out those characteristics,
which is often found in almost all books I have read. I would like to see how
this forms my opinion of the characters when I reading.
(Lily Shah 11:04am February 29, 2016)

By leaving out the external characteristics, it allows the reader to formulate a personal picture of the character based on the reader's own perceptions and to allow the thought processes of the character to show through that imagined person and become more vivid and life-like to the reader.
(Sharon Karas 12:21pm February 29, 2016)

I enjoyed learning about your novel and your writing. You
focus upon what is important and not the frivolous and small
details.
(Sharon Berger 12:22pm February 29, 2016)

I totally agree that you focus on the important female
traits/capabilities.
(Mary McCoy 5:16pm February 29, 2016)

Thanks for all the comments! They're appreciated. I dont want to
mislead you -- I do describe a woman physically, but it's usually just
in one sentence. And the last attribute in the sentence should
somehow relate to her character. For example, a lined brow... lips
stretched to the limit... posture... things like that. Still, I think the
internal images we create of characters are more important.
(Libby Hellmann 9:18pm February 29, 2016)

Exactly! You've nailed it! Stream of conscious writing re your character
allows her/him to grow & become 'real' in the story. Loved this discussion!
(Kathleen Bylsma 9:34pm February 29, 2016)

Women characters need to be strong but understanding of the world around them and they usually are, especially more so than men.
(Shirley Cochran 12:23pm March 1, 2016)

Men are 'black or white' while women see the big picture.
(Kathleen Bylsma 7:25pm March 1, 2016)

Interesting! I'd love to win this book!
(Amy Morgan 1:27pm March 2, 2016)

Women should be strong always.
Marilyn
(Marilyn Collins 8:15pm March 2, 2016)

sound like a great book to read!
(Ann Unger 9:37pm March 2, 2016)

I love your books!
(Laurie Bergh 9:28am March 3, 2016)

This sounds like a book full of action and mystery . What the person does and what is said about the people in a book goes into my imagination and I can see them and know what they look like .Sometimes I get so into the book that I am one of the characters .What the author tells is what goes into our minds .I hope to read this book soon . Thanks for this chance to win .
(Joan Thrasher 11:04am March 3, 2016)

Your information is interesting. I am amazed at the amount of background work you do to create a character. I had always wondered how an author managed to make one believable.
(Anna Speed 12:15pm March 4, 2016)