Helen Osterman lives in Homer Glen, a suburb of Chicago. She has five children and nine grandchildren.

She received a Bachelor of 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, an Emma Winberry Mystery, July, 2013. 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 cozy mystery, 2014 Rogue Wave, and Emma Winberry Mystery to be released Oct. 2015

She is a member of American Association of University Women, Mystery Writers of America, and Sisters in Crime and The Authors’ Guild.