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TRACY GARDNER aka JESS SINCLAIRTracy Gardner is an award-winning mystery and women's fiction author represented by Frances Black of Literary Counsel. Her novel RUBY RED HERRING is a 2022 Mary Higgins Clark Edgar Award Finalist as well as a New York Public Library Best 100 book. Gardner's Shepherd Sisters Mysteries, a five book series with Tule Publishing, was published in 2025 beginning with DEATH BY DECEPTION. The author also writes women's and book club fiction with heart and grit under pen name Jess Sinclair. Her debut novel WHAT WE COULD HAVE BEEN was awarded winner of the 2024 Storytrade Award in the categories of Women's Fiction and USA Southeast Fiction and finalist in two other categories. WHAT WE COULD HAVE BEEN is a gripping and emotional tale of a woman coming home to the small Florida fishing town she fled as a teen, in hopes of repairing the broken relationships she left behind. A Detroit native with one foot in the sand of Florida's Gulf Coast, Tracy Gardner is a mother of three, the daughter of two teachers, and works as a nurse when not writing. She lives with her husband and a menagerie of spoiled rescue dogs and cats. The author is a strong believer in women saving themselves, often with ride-or-die besties and plenty of chocolate. (Animal assistants pictured below) |
