Tracy Clark

Tracy Clark is the author of Echo, the third novel in the Detective Harriet Foster police procedural series. She is also author of the Cass Raines PI series, a two-time Sue Grafton Memorial Award-winning author, the 2024 Anthony Award-winner for Best Paperback Original, the 2024 Lefty Award-winner for Best Mystery and the 2022 winner of the Sara Paretsky Award.

Clark is a board member-at-large of Sisters in Crime, Chicagoland and a member of International Thriller Writers, and serves on the boards of Mystery Writers of America Chicago and the Midwest Mystery Conference.

Recently I asked Clark about what she was reading. Her reply:

I’m always reading something. I read when I should be writing my own stuff (don’t tell my editor). My latest deadline looms. I am reading Barbara Nickless’ The Drowning Game. It’s wonderful.

I won’t give it away because in this one, discovery is the fun part. Fundamentally, it’s about two sisters, Nadia and Cass Brenner. When Cass falls from the 40th floor of a Singapore hotel, ruled suicide, Nadia isn’t having it, and begins investigating. The Drowning Game is twisty and ominous and foreboding. Nothing is as it seems. Nuff said. I don’t want to ruin it.

Nickless is a wonderful writer. The words practically jump off the page. I like when they do that.

Visit Tracy Clark's website.

Q&A with Tracy Clark.

My Book, The Movie: What You Don’t See.

Writers Read: Tracy Clark (July 2021).

The Page 69 Test: Runner.

The Page 69 Test: Hide.

The Page 69 Test: Fall.

Writers Read: Tracy Clark (December 2023).

The Page 69 Test: Echo.

--Marshal Zeringue