Phyllis C. Gobbell

Phyllis Gobbell's most recent book is Prodigal, released in 2024. In this Southern novel, a young man tries to come home, to find forgiveness. What he finds are long-buried secrets, but he discovers that sacrifice is the price of redemption.

Gobbell writes a little bit of everything, books, short stories, creative nonfiction, and poetry. She has received awards in both fiction and nonfiction, including Tennessee's Individual Artist Literary Award. She is co-author of two true-crime books based on high-profile murders in Nashville: A Season of Darkness, with Doug Jones, and An Unfinished Canvas with Mike Glasgow.

Turning to traditional mysteries, she released the Jordan Mayfair Mystery Series in Spring 2015. Pursuit in Provence was first in the series, followed by Secrets and Shamrocks, Treachery in Tuscany, winner of Killer Nashville's Silver Falchion Award for Cozy Mysteries, and Notorious in Nashville, a Top Pick for Killer Nashville's Silver Falchion Award for Cozy Mysteries.