Sylvia Nickels

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, active with local writer's guilds and stays young-at-heart by playing with toy cars and trains with her great-grandchildren.

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.

She is the author behind two series of novels. The first series features Private Investigator Cameron Locke, who tracks down killers in Wexler Bend, Tennessee, hoping her friendship with police Sergeant Shac Lane grows into something deeper.

Sylvia's other series character is widow Royce Thorne, who can't keep from getting underfoot of Police Chief Jared Granite in Fall Creek, Tennessee, while searching for evidence to clear her late policeman husband's illegitimate son of murder.

Cam's first and second adventures are available in print and ebook, and the third is soon to be released. A standalone novel, Sweetwater Deception, set in Sylvia's native state of Georgia, has been released in print and ebook formats. Soon to be released is Cob Corners Murder, also set in Georgia.

Her other writing genre is Science Fiction. A forthcoming novella-in-four parts combines colonizing Earth-similar planets and murder. Sylvia's Science Fiction short stories have appeared in Bewildering Stories ezine, where it won awards and Communities Magazine. Her mystery/crime short stories were published in Epic winner anthology, Mystery of the Green Mist,and Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine. "The Sweet Taste of Revenge" won Honorable Mention at the Cape Fear Writer's Conference Short Story Competition.

Sylvia maintains the website www.ramblinscribe.com and blogs intermittently at www.mysterylanerambler.blogspot.com