Two-time Sue Grafton Memorial Award-winner Tracy Clark introduces readers to HIDE (Thomas & Mercer), a hard-boiled, page-turning thriller featuring Chicago Police Detective Harriet Foster, a Black woman in a male-dominated department who must navigate a difficult relationship with a new partner as she hunts a killer stalking red-haired women while still mourning the sudden death of her longtime former partner.

BOOK LAUNCH PARTY: At The Book Cellar (4736 N. Lincoln Ave.) at 4pm Central Time on Saturday, January 14. Tracy will be discussing her new book (which also debuts a new, Chicago-set series for her) with fellow Chicago crime fiction novelist Lori Rader-Day.

HIDE is the first book in Tracy’s new Harriet Foster series and we’d love to send you a digital or physical copy for feature consideration.

Tracy Clark is a two-time Sue Grafton Memorial Award-winning author. Her books have also been honored as Anthony Award and Lefty Award finalists and have been shortlisted for the American Library Association’s RUSA Reading List, named a CrimeReads Best New PI Book of 2018, a Midwest Connections Pick, and a Library Journal Best Books of the Year. A native of Chicago, she works as an editor in the newspaper industry and roots for the Cubs, Sox, Bulls, Bears, and Blackhawks equally. She is a board member-at-large of Sisters in Crime, Chicagoland, a member of International Thriller Writers, and serves on the boards of Mystery Writers of America Chicago and the Midwest Mystery Conference.

Of Clark’s Cass Raines Chicago Mystery Series (four books. 2018-2021), the New York Times said, “Clark writes with purpose, her sense of social justice never venturing into dogma but remaining fully rooted in Raines’s actions and personality. She saves but is no savior because she operates in a world where survival is the benchmark, and pain remains in the aftermath.”

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