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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 nominee. 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: 4.1 · 2,587 ratings · 841 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Death by Deception (The Shepherd Sisters Mysteries Book 1) 4.07 avg rating — 790 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 — 700 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) 4.05 avg rating — 577 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) 4.18 avg rating — 430 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) 4.10 avg rating — 378 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) 4.11 avg rating — 359 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) 4.64 avg rating — 61 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) 4.86 avg rating — 42 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 Lori Stolaski's review of Murder on Display (The Shepherd Sisters Mysteries Book 2): "Another awesome cozy mystery in The Shepherd Sisters Mysteries series! Savanna is busy planning an Art in the Park exhibition when—of course—a murder turns everything upside down. She and her sisters jump in to help clear an innocent man and uncover t" Read more of this review »
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Tracy Gardner liked Bernadette Cinkoske's review of A Stroke of Murder (The Shepherd Sisters Mysteries Book 5): "A Stroke of Murder is a delightfully twisted, small town, art heist, murder mystery with a wedding! I have truly enjoyed the Shepherd Sisters mysteries and Savanna's job as an art authenticator. There is just so much love in the family dynamic in the" Read more of this review »
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Tracy Gardner liked Annarella's review of A Stroke of Murder (The Shepherd Sisters Mysteries Book 5): "Love this series and love the characters. There's fun, a lovely setting, likeable characters, a solid mystery Highly recommended. Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine. "
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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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