A word about the author…
Sylvia Nickels pursues her lifelong dream of writing from her home in the mountains of East Tennessee. A graduate of Tusculum College, she is retired from the telephone industry and active in her church and with local writers’ guilds.
An avid reader for many years of stories and novels involving “gumshoes,” Sylvia once applied for a job as an apprentice PI, but to her disappointment, it never happened.
Sylvia’s mystery short stories have been published in Mystery of the Green Mist anthology and Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine. “The Sweet Taste of Revenge” won Honorable Mention in the Cape Fear Writers Conference Short Story Competition.
Sylvia maintains the website at
and blogs intermittently at: