the Windy City dodging cops, cons, and killers. Clark received Anthony Award and Lefty Award nominations for her series debut, Broken Places, which was shortlisted for the American Library Association’s RUSA Reading List and named a CrimeReads Best New PI Book of 2018, a Midwest Connections Pick, and a Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Broken Places has since been optioned by Sony Pictures Television. Clark’s short story “For Services Rendered” appears in the anthology Shades of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African-American Authors. She is the winner of the 2020 and 2022 G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award, also receiving a 2022 nomination for the Edgar Award for best short story for “Lucky Thirteen,” which appears in the crime fiction anthology Midnight Hour.
Clark's new novel is Hide.
[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]
At CrimeReads she tagged "a few of the crime books by writers of color readers should not miss out on. I say a few because this list doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface. The bench is deep." One title on the list:
The Ninja Daughter, by Tori EldridgeRead about the other entries on the list.
There is nothing not to like about this series featuring Lily Wong, a martial arts expert, a ninja for all intents and purposes, who works for a women’s refuge offering shelter to vulnerable women. Lily protects the women, fights for them, saves them. The action scenes in this fun series are killer, but the real meat is the heart and the family dynamic that plays out between Lily, her parents, and her tight circle of associates. Never knew what a karambit was before reading these books, now I do. Think I’ll leave it to Lily, though. I value my fingers.
The Page 69 Test: The Ninja Daughter.
--Marshal Zeringue
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