Thursday, August 5, 2021

Forgiving -- Chicago author draws on Catholic education for her mystery Novels

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 By Sharon Boehlefeld | Features Editor

Tracy Clark’s first published mystery story started one day during a moment when her mind slipped away from a homily at St. Philip Neri Parish in Chicago.

“I looked at the confessional, and I thought, ‘You could put a body in there.’”

When that passing thought eventually coalesced with a character she’d been imagining since she was about 12, “Broken Promises” was born. In that first novel, Cass Raines was the private detective who wanted to solve the murder of her favorite priest in a Chicago parish much like Clark’s own.