Helen Macie Osterman
Cozy Mystery/Romance
Helen Osterman lives in Homer Glen, a suburb of Chicago. She has five children and nine grandchildren, and one great-grandson. She received a Bachelor of Science Nursing degree from Mercy Hospital-St. Xavier College and later earned a Master’s Degree from Northern Illinois University.
Throughout her forty-five year nursing career, she wrote articles for both nursing and medical journals.
She is the author of the Emma Winberry Mystery Series:
The Accidental Sleuth, 2007
The Stranger in the Opera House,2009
The Elusive Relation,2011
Emma Winberry and the Evil Eye, 2012
Locked Within, 1213
Rogue Wave, 2015
Other books by Helen Osterman
Notes in a Mirror, a paranormal/historical, 2009.
Song of the Rails, a love story, 2011.
Maker’s Mark, a cozy mystery. 2012
Danger by Design, a Net Petrone Mystery.
Helen is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime and The Authors’ Guild.
How I became a Writer
by Helen Osterman
Since I was a child, I made up stories and told them to whoever would listen. I was an avid reader and still am.During my nursing career, I wrote for nursing and medical journals.When I retired, I tried my hand at a novel. During a Love is Murder Conference, I pitched to a publisher. He loved the plot and five weeks later I had a contract. I've been writing ever since.Book number ten has just been accepted by Oak Tree Press.
Contact info for Helen Osterman
[email protected]
www.helenosterman.com
Cozy Mystery/Romance
Helen Osterman lives in Homer Glen, a suburb of Chicago. She has five children and nine grandchildren, and one great-grandson. She received a Bachelor of Science Nursing degree from Mercy Hospital-St. Xavier College and later earned a Master’s Degree from Northern Illinois University.
Throughout her forty-five year nursing career, she wrote articles for both nursing and medical journals.
She is the author of the Emma Winberry Mystery Series:
The Accidental Sleuth, 2007
The Stranger in the Opera House,2009
The Elusive Relation,2011
Emma Winberry and the Evil Eye, 2012
Locked Within, 1213
Rogue Wave, 2015
Other books by Helen Osterman
Notes in a Mirror, a paranormal/historical, 2009.
Song of the Rails, a love story, 2011.
Maker’s Mark, a cozy mystery. 2012
Danger by Design, a Net Petrone Mystery.
Helen is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime and The Authors’ Guild.
How I became a Writer
by Helen Osterman
Since I was a child, I made up stories and told them to whoever would listen. I was an avid reader and still am.During my nursing career, I wrote for nursing and medical journals.When I retired, I tried my hand at a novel. During a Love is Murder Conference, I pitched to a publisher. He loved the plot and five weeks later I had a contract. I've been writing ever since.Book number ten has just been accepted by Oak Tree Press.
Contact info for Helen Osterman
[email protected]
www.helenosterman.com
The Elusive Relation
Third in the Emma Winberry Mystery Series
Publisher: Five Star/Cengage Learning
ISBN: 43282-511-9 $25.99
In her third adventure, Emma Winberry travels to London.
She receives a bizarre letter from Lindsey Bellingham, a woman in the UK, who claims to be the daughter of Emma’s brother-in-law. She is being threatened by some unknown persons and is trying to find her father.
Nate Sandler, Emma’s significant other, thinks it’s a scam and tells Emma to forget all about it. But, she knows from experience that she can’t.
When Nate is asked to speak at a seminar in Paris, he and Emma decide to visit London. They meet Lindsey and accompany her to her home in Roydon, a village dating back to the 16th century. They find that Isabel, the young cousin, is covered with long red hair, a condition called hypertrichosis. Someone is threatening to harm Isabel unless Lindsey gives them a large sum of money. To complicate matters, a wealthy American wants to buy Bellingham House, but Lindsey refuses to sell.
Emma’s visit is cut short when her granddaughter is injured in an accident. The child recovers quickly and Emma tries to put Lindsey and her problems out of her mind.
When she receives a frantic phone call that Isabel has been kidnapped, Emma knows she must return. Nate cannot go with her because of prior commitments, so Emma takes Tracie Adams, a young girl she befriended two years previously.
The action escalates when Tracie stumbles across the abductors and, she too, is taken. The girls end up in an abandoned shed in the country and are rescued by Miss Weatherby, an old woman living in the area.
Tracie knows the kidnappers are searching for them and it will only be a matter of time before they come to the cottage. Despite a severe thunderstorm, she starts out for help but sprains her ankle and is rescued by two local boys.
They take her to their home and alert the police who find Miss Weatherby injured and Isabel hidden in a root cellar. The girl is ill, both in body and mind.
Two of the kidnappers are apprehended but the third escapes to the continent. Isabel retreats into a fantasy world and the doctor fears for her sanity.
After the storm, Emma finds crumbling plaster in one of the closets. Hidden there is a valuable coin. Is this why the American wants the house? And how did he know it was there?
Emma is frustrated that she must go back home without helping Lindsey solve any of these problems. She tries to reach out to Isabel, but the girl believes she is surrounded by evil. Her delusions escalate as another storm hits the area and she hears the house calling to her.
Follow Emma to the surprising climax to the story as she risks her life to save Isabel from herself.
Third in the Emma Winberry Mystery Series
Publisher: Five Star/Cengage Learning
ISBN: 43282-511-9 $25.99
In her third adventure, Emma Winberry travels to London.
She receives a bizarre letter from Lindsey Bellingham, a woman in the UK, who claims to be the daughter of Emma’s brother-in-law. She is being threatened by some unknown persons and is trying to find her father.
Nate Sandler, Emma’s significant other, thinks it’s a scam and tells Emma to forget all about it. But, she knows from experience that she can’t.
When Nate is asked to speak at a seminar in Paris, he and Emma decide to visit London. They meet Lindsey and accompany her to her home in Roydon, a village dating back to the 16th century. They find that Isabel, the young cousin, is covered with long red hair, a condition called hypertrichosis. Someone is threatening to harm Isabel unless Lindsey gives them a large sum of money. To complicate matters, a wealthy American wants to buy Bellingham House, but Lindsey refuses to sell.
Emma’s visit is cut short when her granddaughter is injured in an accident. The child recovers quickly and Emma tries to put Lindsey and her problems out of her mind.
When she receives a frantic phone call that Isabel has been kidnapped, Emma knows she must return. Nate cannot go with her because of prior commitments, so Emma takes Tracie Adams, a young girl she befriended two years previously.
The action escalates when Tracie stumbles across the abductors and, she too, is taken. The girls end up in an abandoned shed in the country and are rescued by Miss Weatherby, an old woman living in the area.
Tracie knows the kidnappers are searching for them and it will only be a matter of time before they come to the cottage. Despite a severe thunderstorm, she starts out for help but sprains her ankle and is rescued by two local boys.
They take her to their home and alert the police who find Miss Weatherby injured and Isabel hidden in a root cellar. The girl is ill, both in body and mind.
Two of the kidnappers are apprehended but the third escapes to the continent. Isabel retreats into a fantasy world and the doctor fears for her sanity.
After the storm, Emma finds crumbling plaster in one of the closets. Hidden there is a valuable coin. Is this why the American wants the house? And how did he know it was there?
Emma is frustrated that she must go back home without helping Lindsey solve any of these problems. She tries to reach out to Isabel, but the girl believes she is surrounded by evil. Her delusions escalate as another storm hits the area and she hears the house calling to her.
Follow Emma to the surprising climax to the story as she risks her life to save Isabel from herself.
Danger by Design
Net Petrone Mystery
ISBN: 978-1-61009-142-8
$15.95 2014
Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble.com and from Oak Tree Press
Net Petrone recently moved into a townhouse in a retirement community. The previous owner, as well as others, joined a fraudulent society bilking wealthy widows out of their life savings. Soon afterwards, they die of sudden heart attacks. Net joins in an attempt to expose this unscrupulous organization. What she doesn’t realize is that she has put herself in mortal danger. Follow this superstitious Italian woman as she becomes involved in mystery, danger, and murder.
Net Petrone Mystery
ISBN: 978-1-61009-142-8
$15.95 2014
Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble.com and from Oak Tree Press
Net Petrone recently moved into a townhouse in a retirement community. The previous owner, as well as others, joined a fraudulent society bilking wealthy widows out of their life savings. Soon afterwards, they die of sudden heart attacks. Net joins in an attempt to expose this unscrupulous organization. What she doesn’t realize is that she has put herself in mortal danger. Follow this superstitious Italian woman as she becomes involved in mystery, danger, and murder.
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