Sybil Reed is a young novelist who is a former pupil of Jessica Fletcher, who was her high-school English teacher. Sybil had a troubled upbringing: when she was young, her mother ran off with another man, and after her father died, Sybil went to live with her grandmother. When Sybil was sixteen, her grandmother passed away and she was forced to live in a foster home until she came of age. When Sybil wrote her first novel, The Sins of Castle Cove, she based the characters on people back in Cabot Cove, including some very personal details, such as Eve Simpson having a birthmark on her fanny, which greatly angered Eve herself. The novel's saucy contents soon send the inhabitants of Cabot Cove into an uproar, resulting in Rose Mulligan smashing the window of the bookstore and burning all copies of the novel. Sybil later tells Jessica she was often teased by other kids at school because of the clothes her grandmother made her wear (which Sybil herself described as "hideous"), and that Eve Simpson introduced her mother to the man she ran off with, and her book was her way of getting revenge on those she felt had wronged her. It is eventually revealed that Sybil had learned all the dirty secrets included in her book from Coreen Wilson, a manicurist at Loretta's beauty parlor who had been listening in on all the gossip.
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