Helen
Osterman lives in a suburb of Chicago. She has five children and nine
grandchildren.
She
received a Bachelor of Nursing degree from Mercy Hospital-St. Xavier College.
During her training, she spent three months at Chicago State Mental Hospital
for her psychiatric rotation. Years later, she 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, including Geriatric Nursing,Nursing Management, Orthopaedic Nursing and Nursing Spectrum. She wrote a section for Clinics in Podiatric
Medicine and Surgery in 1997.
In
1997 and 1998, she published two short novels about a nurse, The Web and Things Hidden, by
Vista
Publishing, a nurse owned publishing company.
She
is also the author of the Emma Winberry Mystery series. The Accidental
Sleuth, 2007 and The Stranger in
the Opera House, 2009.
Helen
is a member of The American Association of University Women and The Mystery
Writers of America.
