Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josef’s Angel | 2006 | Libby Fischer Hellmann | Buy |
| 2 | The Last Page | 2011 | Libby Fischer Hellmann | Buy |
| 3 | Flight | 2012 | Libby Fischer Hellmann | Buy |
| 4 | War Secrets (Prequel to A Bitter Veil) | 2015 | Libby Fischer Hellmann | Buy |
| 5 | Capital Partners | 2015 | Libby Fischer Hellmann | Buy |
| 6 | The Incidental Spy | 2015 | Libby Fischer Hellmann | Buy |
| 7 | P.O.W. | 2019 | Libby Fischer Hellmann | Buy |
| 8 | Letters From Havana | 2020 | Libby Fischer Hellmann | Buy |
| 9 | No Good Deed | 2020 | Libby Fischer Hellmann | Buy |
This collection gathers Libby Fischer Hellmann’s individually published short stories and novellas that fall outside her main series collections. Written between 2006 and 2020, these pieces cover a range of crime fiction styles, from quick noir sketches to longer novellas with more developed plots.
Hellmann’s short fiction demonstrates the same Chicago-rooted sensibility found in her novels. The stories vary in tone and setting, but they share her focus on characters caught in situations where the stakes are personal and the outcomes uncertain.