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Tracy Gardner

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Tracy Gardner is a multi-award winning mystery and women's fiction author and Edgar Award finalist. Under pseudonym Jess Sinclair, the author's book club fiction book What We Could Have Been won the 2024 Storytrade Women's Fiction Award and USA Southeast Fiction award.
Currently, Gardner's five book Shepherd Sisters Mysteries series is rapid-releasing through Tule Publishing in 2025.
A Detroit native and mother of three, Tracy is the daughter of two teachers. She lives with her husband and best friend of thirty years and a menagerie of spoiled rescue dogs and cats, and is a strong believer in the power of baked goods, live music, and girlfriend therapy as staples to a happy life. ...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 2,518 ratings · 823 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Death by Deception (The Shepherd Sisters Mysteries Book 1) 4.06 avg rating — 775 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ruby Red Herring (An Avery Ayers Antique Mystery, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 695 ratings — published 2021 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What We Could Have Been by Jess Sinclair (Goodreads Author), Tracy Gardner (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 569 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder on Display (The Shepherd Sisters Mysteries Book 2) 4.17 avg rating — 421 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Still Life and Death (The Shepherd Sisters Mysteries Book 3) 4.09 avg rating — 367 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peril at Pennington Manor (An Avery Ayers Antique Mystery, #2) 4.12 avg rating — 356 ratings — published 2022 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Brush with Murder (The Shepherd Sisters Mysteries Book 4) 4.77 avg rating — 52 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Stroke of Murder (The Shepherd Sisters Mysteries Book 5) 4.91 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fall of Our Secrets by Tracy Gardner (Goodreads Author), Tracy Gardner Beno 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Janine: His True Alpha

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Tracy Gardner liked Carrie Thompson's review of A Stroke of Murder (The Shepherd Sisters Mysteries Book 5): "This is book 5 of the series with the Shepherd Sisters. It is another fantastic book by Tracy Gardner. In book 5, Savanna is again busy with her crazy life, and ends up getting involved in another mystery, all while planning her wedding and the winte" Read more of this review »
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“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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