Tracy Clark is the author of the Detective Harriet Foster crime fiction series, including FALL (December 6, 2023; Thomas and Mercer) and HIDE (January 1, 2023; Thomas and Mercer). She is a two-time Sue Grafton Memorial Award-winning author and the 2022 winner of the Sara Paretsky Award and the 2024 Lefty Award for Best Mystery
The four novels in her Cass Raines series (2018-2021) 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.