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Title: Jump Cut
Subtitle: The Ellie Foreman Mysteries, Book 5
Author: Libby Fischer Hellmann
Narrator: Nan McNamara
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-10-17
Publisher: The Red Herrings Press
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 25 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage
Publisher's Summary:
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.
Members Reviews:
Story puts a strain on believability
Actions and motivations of many of the characters truly strain believability at times, but the story is engaging and suspenseful. The main characters are likable and interesting. Nan McNamara gives the characters distinct and appropriate voices. It's a good match of narrator with story. I continue to enjoy this series.
NOTE: I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
Jump Cut: Jump into This One
What did you like best about this story?
....for Your Cut of Excitement! This is the first book I had the opportunity to enjoy by Libby Fischer Hellman; and not the last. Based on this experience, I have already bought Book 2 in this series. Libby weaves a taut, fast-paced thriller like a master dropping clues all along the way. But beware, not all clues are all that helpful. Buy it now, and thank you later, and I just know you will!
Taught thriller
Would you consider the audio edition of Jump Cut to be better than the print version?
Yes.
Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
I was fully engaged in the storyline from start to finish.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The subject ended up to be surprisingly educational - in no way preachingly - and I was moved to do further research about it. Fascinating.
Another exciting book in the Ellie Foreman series!
Any additional comments?
Ellie Foreman has been hired to do a series of promotional videos for Delcroft Aviation. Then at the screening for the corporate big-wigs Charlotte Hollander shuts down the program. Ellie can't just walk away and wants to know why she was fired. As Ellie starts digging she enters a world of international espionage involving the Chinese. People are having "accidents" and disappearing all around her then Ellie's daughter is kidnapped. Will Ellie solve everything and get her daughter back safe and sound?
I received this book for free from the Author in exchange for my honest review.
A totally engaging story
Jump Cut is a smart, sharply written, intense modern day thriller.
