Phyllis Gobbell is the author of Pursuit in Provence—the first Jordan Mayfair mystery—and co-author of two true-crime books based on high-profile murders in Nashville, Tennessee: An Unfinished Canvas with Michael Glasgow (Berkley, 2007) and Season of Darkness with Douglas Jones (Berkley, 2010). She was interviewed on Discovery ID’s “Deadly Sins,” discussing the murder case in An Unfinished Canvas. Her narrative, “Lost Innocence,” was published in the anthology Masters of True Crime (Prometheus, 2012). She has received awards in both fiction and nonfiction, including Tennessee’s Individual Artist Literary Award and a nomination for the Pushcart Prize for short fiction. An associate professor of English at Nashville State Community College, she teaches writing and literature.