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Tracy Clark, a native Chicagoan, is the author of the award-winning Cass Raines Chicago Mystery series, featuring ex-cop turned PI Cassandra Raines, and the Detective Harriet Foster series, featuring Harriet Foster, a homicide detective with the Chicago Police Department. Two tough, smart, African American female characters working the mean streets of the Windy City.
A multi-nominated Anthony, Lefty, Macavity, Edgar and Shamus Award finalist, Tracy is also the 2020 and 2022 winner of the G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award, as well as the 2022 Sara Paretsky Award, and is a proud member of Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, and currently serves on the Bouchercon national board and the board of the Midwest Mystery Conference.

Her debut novel, BROKEN PLACES, made Library Journal’s list of the Best Crime Fiction of 2018 and was short listed in the mystery category on the American Library Association’s 2019 Reading List. CrimeReads also named Cass Raines Best /New PI of 2018. That debut novel was nominated for a Lefty Award for Best Debut Novel, an Anthony Award for Best Debut Novel and a Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel. Her second Raines novel, BORROWED TIME, was nominated for the 2020 Lefty Award for Best Mystery Novel and won the 2020 and 2022 G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award. WHAT YOU DON’T SEE, book three in the series, was nominated for the 2021 Lefty and Shamus Awards. RUNNER, book four in the Raines series, won the 2022 Sue Grafton Award.

HIDE, book one in her new Detective Harriet Foster series debuted January 2023 and made the Associated Press’ Top 10 audiobook lists for Audible.com.
Kirkus Review said of HIDE, “Solid work from a writer who knows the dark side of the Windy City.”

When not writing, Tracy is watching old black-and-white movies, reading, or just puttering around. She roots for the Cubs, the Sox, the Bears, the Blackhawks, the Chicago Sky and the Chicago Fire equally. As a proud Chicagoan, it’s deep dish and hot dogs, no ketchup. Vegan schmegan. And she can toss a (fictional) dead body anywhere and make it work. Dare her.